something to consider...if you are right handed, you might like the handle on the left. As this might seem odd, test yourself--what hand are your dishes in when you approach the sink? If you are like me, the right hand. Which means you have to cross over and turn on the faucet with your left. I was asleep at the switch during installation of the counter because the installer and I worked on the placement of the holes for the faucet and soap dispenser. It didn't even occur to me at that moment that if I had the handle on the left and the soap on the left that it would be too crowded looking. Just some food for thought. Others might suggest putting the handle in the middle, but I didn't want it overhanging the sink. It all worked out in our case because currently, I am the only right handed person living full time in this house, my RH girls are in college, which leaves me with my LH DH & DS. I guess they outnumber me.

I'm no expert on Moen but that looks abnormal to me.ÃÂ Surely shouldn't be so much rusting. Many Moen faucets have a lifetime warranty to the original owner of the home in which they're installed ... so I suggest contacting them for assistance ... unless you're not the original owner and can't verify the purchase date, etc. My grandmother's Moen kitchen faucet developed some trouble recently, they sent several parts at no charge. The Moen phone rep was highly impressed that we have the original receipt from Dec 1997 so I could quote the store name, price, and even the time-stamp.

TARA ULTRA 33 860 875 Professional single-lever mixer, 240 mm projection is where the handle is on the side and it is on a spring. I would istall it with the waste pop up and a soap dispenser on the deck. I do not have the kind of design that can carry a wall mounted faucet. Rococogurl, I completely understand the plastic body with coating versus all metal workings. Some of my cheapo (midpriced) faucets have nicks where the plastic are showing underneath. I have had good luck with Grohe but have not done as well with hansgrohe. How do you use the Dornbracht faucet so you can fill the pot on the counter? Maybe you can't. This to me is the biggest drawback of these pro sprayers that do not extend beyond the 'hose' that is visible. I really like the presence, however. I do not have any uppers on the sink side of kitchen. The sink is in front of a very large window, 6 ft wide or more, so the larger scale would look better from a design point of view. It's just the reach outside of the sink that I am worried about. I think they all reach well within the sink, but I would like it to be able to fill the pot on the counter so I don't have to lift the heavy pot up and out of the sink since I am short. If I fill it on the counter, I can just slide/carry it to the stove. A part of me has an attitude that if it isn't great, replace it in a few years. We tend to "wear out" things. We are hard on our stuff. I am not a great housekeeper and my house cleaner is "hard" on things, I think. They have been with us for 10 years or more and I don't have the heart to look for a new house cleaner. For example, our handheld shower heads get dropped all the time (not sure more by the cleaners or us), so there are cracks on the plastic. It is relatively cheap to get a new shower head for a small pick me up! Why not a faucet! It helps that my DH can replace these things with some ease. (even with an Ivy league PhD, he has his practical uses.) Decisions. Decision. Now that I have put in the cabinet order, I can move onto the faucet and the counter. i also have to decide on the railing system; glass, metal, or cable. A friend of ours is doing their house with all Dornbracht plumbing stuff. Amazing and beautiful! She has the tub filling from the ceiling. Cool, man!

michoumonster, doing "the filter on the cold line side with a one handle faucet" = YEs, "it is all filtred water and not a mix of unfiltered and filtered". So, no, "even if you choose to do cold only, it always comes out a little mixed", no, not true. If anyone wants to do replicable experiment, to test it out all by themselves, here is what they can do: unscrew the faucet's hot water hose, under the counter. First you will have to stop the flow of hot water, and this can be done if you have a valve at the hot water tank or at the point where the faucet's hot water hose connects to the hot water pipe. Then, your faucet will run with cold only. Now, what happens? Here is what happens. Every time you move the single handle away from the cold-only position, the mixer valve opens the hot water side (a little or a lot), and your pressurized cold water comes flowing out of the hot water hose under the counter. Put a pail under it, and a towel to catch splashes. As you play with the handle, you will see how much water is let through the opening and goes into the pail. In the cold-only position, you get a full flow of cold water and NO leakage of cold water onto the hot side of the mixer valve. Thus, using logic, you deduce that there cannot be any flow when the hot water is attached and "trying" to get through. I repeat this in other words: pressurized hot water is not allowed to mix with pressurized cold water, when the handle is in cold-only position. If you happen to reverse the hoses under the sink, you will see the mixer valves also separates hot water fully from the cold water stream, when the handle is over to the other side. Hth