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PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Current front runner in the kitchen tap stakes is this one.



Opinions please??

Speaking as somebody who can't wash their hands without first holding up a towel to shield oneself.... that tap has the potential to [a] have a stiff lift on the arm, so the water's hard to control turn into a serious sprayback shower unit...where you'll also need to "towel up" before attempting to use it.

lostinrates

I like it but prefer a higher kitchen tap because I put big things in sink like stock pots/ jelly pans/ roasting tins that don''t fit lying down. Sometimes I wouldn't wAnt to use hose for these.

michaels

Agree with LIR, would prefer a taller one that pours straight down, are you choosing from pictures on line? Looking in the flesh might be better?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Speaking as somebody who can't wash their hands without first holding up a towel to shield oneself.... that tap has the potential to [a] have a stiff lift on the arm, so the water's hard to control turn into a serious sprayback shower unit...where you'll also need to "towel up" before attempting to use it.

Thanks PN. I'm hoping it isn't going to be a stiff lift. It says it has SilkMove technology - which seems to be some kind of patent system for making it easily controllable with little force. I hadn't considered the sprayback possibility, although I suspect that would be more of an issue in a basin than in a decent sized kitchen sink.

lostinrates wrote: »

I like it but prefer a higher kitchen tap because I put big things in sink like stock pots/ jelly pans/ roasting tins that don''t fit lying down. Sometimes I wouldn't wAnt to use hose for these.

Thanks lir. I feel that on the occasions when the low tap isn't high enough, , and if things are too big to go in lying down then they'll be big enough that the hose would be useful. But I've never had a pull out kitchen tap, so I don't really know how I'll end up using it if I get one.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Agree with LIR, would prefer a taller one that pours straight down, are you choosing from pictures on line? Looking in the flesh might be better?

I've tried looking in the flesh. It resulted in nothing remotely like what I want - almost no pull out taps at all, and absolutely none with the features I like best. So am going to have to order one. Would much much prefer to choose tap in the flesh, but there are just too many taps out there, and showrooms only carry a small range of the most popular.

I started by looking at tall ones, and at one stage I thought that that was what I was going to go for. As I looked more, though, I decided I'd rather have one with the control lever on the top, for maximum accessibility by both left and right hand of the user, regardless of what else they are holding - saucepan etc, for example. With the taller ones, you have to reach round the saucepan to turn the tap on or off; lever on the top models are all low rise taps. So I thought about whether that would be a problem, and decided that it would be if I weren't looking for a pull out model, but given that I do want a pull out, the low rise of the tap wouldn't be a problem.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

<hugs> for Elona - and anyone else who fancies one.



Yes, I had been planning to offer you use of our car as we will be away pretty much all the time you are here if you were willing to pay to be put on the insurance.

Erm, wow! That's really kind michaels. Will get in touch off board.

ivyleaf

It looks very nice, Lydia. Personally, I find that type of lever difficult to adjust though - it's easy to turn on much harder than I meant to, then i get splashed.

That might just be me though

LydiaJ

ivyleaf wrote: »

It looks very nice, Lydia. Personally, I find that type of lever difficult to adjust though - it's easy to turn on much harder than I meant to, then i get splashed.

That might just be me though

The thing is that we have a tap with a lever like that in the basin in our downstairs loo. It was there when we moved in. I wasn't sure how we'd find it, but in fact it's been fine. So it encourages me to think we'll be OK with something similar in the kitchen.

The one problem that I frequently have with taps of that kind is working out which direction is hot and which is cold. This one does seem to have a little red spot in the pic, though, so I imagine there's probably a little blue spot on the other side out of the shot with that camera angle. And I've already decided that if I end up with one without little red and blue spots on, then I'll put them on myself with nail polish and a stencil or something.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

OH once worked for one of the big accountancy firms. He entered into discussions a company that his firm audited (all above board, I think he was serving out a long notice period at the time). At interview it seemed the job was his, but we didn't get anything in writing and they kept saying they were going through formalities. Nothing happened. A few months later they were found to be insolvent. Lucky escape!

Shouldn't he have known that already? :rotfl:

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

...working out which direction is hot and which is cold. ...

I've learnt that hot water can't come through to my basins in time for me to use hot water, so the lever is permanently left fully to the right hand side, so it dispenses cold water only.

I have two levers in the kitchen - the water temperature is set at the boiler and it's hot enough to be used "as is" without adding any cold whatsoever. I therefore wash up by turning only the hot lever - and I rinse and fill the kettle using only the cold lever.