Take it out , they are something that is just a PITA and really make little sense. You still need to carry a pot of boiling water to a sink and if you had the sink close enough to the range you wouldn’t need a pot filler. Unless you huge stock pots that you use all the time they really are just useless.

Post a picture! I say keep it but I love the idea of a pot filler, we had plumbing for it added in our current reno. People always say you have to take the pot to the sink to dump it anyway but it's obviously helpful when you're filling a large pot... dishes are in the sink and you need 2 hands to hold the pot to fill it at the sink... can't turn the water off if holding a large pot with 2 hands... etc. Also when having to add some water to a dish already on the stove. We do a lot of pasta and dishes with big pots, I can't wait to have one.

Photo!

I think I'll just leave it... you all have very good points so thank you for your comments. It's just overwhelming getting to the end and having something like this pop up. I'm exhausted and can't imagine ripping and redoing another thing. Your comments all make me feel more at ease!

It looks great, we will have the same one installed!! Love it.

Thank you @itsourcasa I'm very excited to use it!

I would either lower it or remove it.

I'm not going to remove it. I understand lowering it, I thought of doing that but I think I'll be able to live with it this way.

Let it as is. It looks fine.

Nice.

X-Mas, mrs. worthy hauled out the 32 quart stock pot. A pot filler would have been handy.

I love making pasta dishes so I am hoping it comes in handy!

Have you asked your plumber if the whole unit can be reversed? It looks to me like you could basically flip it upside down effectively lowing the spout by the distance from the wall section to the cross section leading to the spout - what is that, 6"? 7"? That puts the lower handle on the top of the wall section instead of below it and brings the high handle below that. Are both handles required to turn on the water? (have never used one so don't laugh!).

@DLM2000-GW I thought of that as well! At this point I'm trying to avoid ripping out the tile... I'm not sure if the fixture could be reversed I have sent in a question to my plumber about that. If so, I would do that I think it would help

Put a big pot up on the stove first before reversing it to lower it, may be too low if you do that.

Have you placed your tallest pot you'd use with it to see how high it actually is? It seems too high to me. Everyone is saying it looks fine but how will it function?

I don’t have one but looks like it should be the height of the bottom of the fixture. Will splatter I would think.

I have to get a pot and go over there to see if it will splash out... Largest pot it would work with. If I do leave it I'll go with previous suggestion on this sub I'll just hold the pot and put the water in closer to the spout.

To me the hassle of getting the plumber back, ripping out tile, moving the line, redoing tile & pot filler... is it really worth it for a couple inches. Right now after this build I am saying to myself "nooooooo!"

No, it’s not worth it.

It's one of those things that I will notice and pick up on but no one entering my house will criticize me on my pot filler height.

Yes, it's a little high. No, it's not worth it to move it.

How much is it going to cost to change the height?

Get the cost and then determine whether you want to spend the money to fix it. Obviously it's too high so the question is what you want to pay to change it. If you don't want to spend the money, then it's not the end of the world in terms of functionality or aesthetics.

I recently finished a remodel and obviously there are certain elements that aren't 100% expected. Some items I left because the cost benefit analysis was too high - e.g. I wanted the kind of drains in the shower that are tiled but the plumber installed a different type and I wasn't going to have the whole shower redone :-). Others were fairly inexpensive - e.g. adding a few additional canned lights in the den and others were expensive but worth spending the money on because they bugged me sufficiently - altering the window drape treatment because they read too small.

If it's flippable I don't see why any tile would have to be removed. Plumbing fittings can be turned without disturbing the tile.

are pot fillers interchangeable? I wouldn’t worry about matching the faucets in your kitchen. My faucets on my beverage center sink do not match my Kohler Artifacts faucet in the rest of the kitchen since I had to have a special faucet for filtered water and chose Delta. It’s a non issue.

I’m sure you are already hemorrhaging money. If they are interchangeable I would install a different pot filler with a lower faucet like this one and see about returning the one you have. Honestly what you have would drive me crazy. To me it looks unusable. Why even have it?

https://www.ferguson.com/product/rohl-italian-country-kitchen-single-handle-cross-handle-pot-filler-ra1445x2/_/A-ProdFamily-176675

A 24" red rubber hose attached to the end of the faucet with a hose clamp will make it look like an authentic commercial kitchen. It is those fine decorating details that make a kitchen.

I wouldn't say it's unusable, may just be the angle. It is high, that's for sure. But not unusable. I was googling images and many other kitchens have pot fillers at what appears to be the height of mine. So I know it's not just me... I guess it's also preference. I'll make due with what I have now and in the future I'll change it out if I find it to be too high.

I am not advising you to change it out now but changing it in the future is probably not going to happen because the logistics make it more difficult. You would have to open up the wall - change the interior plumbing and then patch and replace whatever was taken down.

This kind of stuff is more easily done when you are still remodeling because the crew is in place. I am still not completely finished with the final stuff on my remodel because the GC wants to wait for the "final final" and have his crew come in to do whatever needs to be patched and painted etc. since I still have tile work to be done on my balcony - which means that a very tiny portion of tile is waiting AND some patches and painting - i.e. the interior of my front door - still wait to be done because he assumes there might be additional patch/paint that needs to be done after the tile crew has finished.

Again I am not advising you to make the change now because it's truly a cost benefit analysis. If you can live with it that's fine - but it will be way more difficult logistically to do in the future unless you do another remodel :-).

They are the most wasted money in most cases. Unless you're running a soup kitchen for 150 every day:)

i put them in a similar category with shower niches . Jmho

JAN.. I used to think that too but with a big family and boiling water almost daily it's so worth it.

And, you choose not to add shower niches? Where are the shampoo bottles? On the floor?

"And, you choose not to add shower niches? Where are the shampoo bottles? On the floor?"

@T -- I know nothing about plumbing or plumbing fixtures, so I don't know if this idea is even a remote possibility, but ...

Is it possible to eliminate the bottom "arm" of the potfiller? That is, instead of the top arm connecting to the bottom arm (that then connects to the actual water pipe), could you just remove the bottom arm and have the top arm (with the faucet spout) connect to the water pipe? That would effectively lower the potfiller without having to remove a single tile or move the plumbing pipe.

All very good suggestions! The house is fully finished aside from the floors so it kind of is “too late” to fix although certainly we could if it bothered me that much. I feel ok with it now after all the comments and input in this thread. I’m still waiting on a reply to see if I can do anything about the pot filler itself either reversing it or maybe as suggested above get rid of that one piece to lower the whole thing. We will see what the options are!

Well, if you can get rid of that one piece, it would look something like this. Please excuse the horrible patch job, but I'm working with a screen capture program - not Photoshop.

Lindsey.. you’d rather see that hanging on the shower head than a built in niche?

@itsourcasa - I agree as I don't understand the "hate" for a shower niche. I had one of those hanging baskets before my remodel and - at least in my opinion - look like a low rent option as opposed to a custom niche. I can't imagine hanging a basket on the beautiful shower fixtures I installed.

Niches can be sized and placed to one's complete tastes. They can either blend in and be fairly innocuous looking or be used as a decorative accent.

Leave it alone. You will never use it after the first time. We ended up having the plumber put in a shut off in the crawlspace and turning it off. It's only useful in a professional kitchen where someone is keeping a pot of boiling water at the ready during service.

It is way too high and either move it or remove it . How on earth are you going to fill a pot without water all over the place.Even my tallest stock pot would not fill from there without water splashing everywhere. BTW these are rarely used even in commercial kitchens

I'm not going to move it. I'm going to leave it as is and live with it. Worst case I have to hold a pot up to fill it from there.... there's worse things in life. If anything, down the road I'll change it out with something else. Thank you all for the input and suggestions/opinions!

We use our pot filler several times a day.... surely not once and never again as suggested above. We use it for any recipe needing water, filling the dogs’ water bowl, filling water bottles, etc. I would 100% do it again.

"Lindsey.. you’d rather see that hanging on the shower head than a built in niche?"

No, not rather, but it's better than keeping shampoo bottles, razors, etc., on the shower floor if there is no niche. Our master shower, for example, does have a niche, but it's too small for everything that needs to be kept there.

Take it out , they are something that is just a PITA and really make little sense. You still need to carry a pot of boiling water to a sink and if you had the sink close enough to the range you wouldn’t need a pot filler. Unless you huge stock pots that you use all the time they really are just useless.

Disagree.

Ideally it'd be lower, but -- even so -- it's a useful thing, and not just for pasta pots that must be dumped. Water at the stovetop is useful when you're making tea (which we do probably 5 days a week in my house), when you're making soup or sauces, and more.

Taking it out costs money -- leaving it costs nothing, even if you don't use it.

These are only appropriate in college apartments:

Not to hijack but Kohler has attractive corner mounted baskets for the shower which come in a variety of finishes. They can be installed to a tile shower for additional storage. using two would give a lot of storage and be much more elegant than an over the shower head holder.

If you add a hose you will need a vacuum breaker if the faucet doesn't already have one.

I don’t think 24” is too tall... but then my taller stock and canning canning pots are around 16” tall, any my brew kettle it a bit taller than that. I don’t use the brew kettle indoors though, lol.

T- time to close this thread. Enjoy your new kitchen. Great looking stove BTW.

Thank you so much everyone! : )

@flopsycat1, how does one “close a thread”? I’ve never seen that suggested before.

@seosmp, I have no idea. Just meant that hypothetically since I sensed that the comments were no longer useful. T appears to be ready to move on.

Did your plumber ever tell you if this pot filler is reversible or if the arm is removable?! We are in the same situation with the same pot filler!