Grohe’s Guide To Choosing A Kitchen Faucet
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The kitchen faucet is the hardest working piece of equipment in the home. From filling the kettle to rinsing vegetables, it is used throughout the day, every day. Therefore it is essential to invest in a faucet that not only looks good, but is also built to last. Design styles For an architectural open-plan space, choose a single-lever mixer with refined lines to echo the purity of the room. For a traditional kitchen select a two-handle mixer. Keen cooks will appreciate pull-out rinsing sprays and mousseurs – both make light work of rinsing out pots. Single-lever faucets Two-handle faucets Faucet finishes What should I look for? It is false economy to buy a cheap faucet, as you will only have to replace it a few years time. If your budget is tight, try and save money elsewhere in the kitchen. Choose a faucet that comes with a guarantee – this shows that the manufacturer is confident that its products will deliver for years to come. Before purchase, check that your water pressure is compatible with your choice of faucet. For optimal performance, many faucets require a minimum flow pressure of 1.0bar.
A kitchen faucet should be chosen for its perfect balance of design and function. It should enhance the work area and be effortless to use, even with greasy hands. A smooth handling of the lever is very important in order to ensure a precise adjustment of water flow or temperature.
Single-lever mixer faucets enable you to control the water flow and temperature with one hand. Ceramic discs in the faucet cartridge allow fingertip control of the water mix, leaving your other hand free to use the rinsing spray. Levers can either be mounted on the top or at the side of the faucet body.
The classic styling of a two-handle faucets allows them to adapt to any kitchen environment. Mounted in a single hole in the sink or the worktop, they feature individual levers or handles to control the hot and cold water supplies.
Stainless steel and chrome faucets complement all style of kitchens. Sparkling chrome will add a highlight to the kitchen area and enhances the look of composite work surfaces and sinks. Stainless steel, a material known for its anti-bacterial qualities, gives a professional look.
Look out for a solid metal faucet body with ceramic discs in the cartridge for smooth easy-to-use actuation. A quality faucet will last a lifetime so select a design with timeless appeal.
Price Pfister Mystique Kitchen Faucet New for 2009
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Price Pfister has released the new Mystique Kithchen Faucet for 2009. The faucet combines a high spout and a pull down spray head that combine in perfect function and style. The style is a combination of flowing natural lines with the oversized commercial look and feel. The Mystique is available in Stainless Steel and in Polished Chrome.
Kohler Class Six Toilet Flush Systems
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KOHLER: Bathroom: Toilets: Class Six: Why KOHLER: Planning: “Extraordinary performance and complete cleanliness.
Class Six technology is designed for extraordinary bulk flushing performance in commercial and residential settings. These toilets feature gravity-fed technologies that maximize the natural force of water. An optimized rim wash is designed to rinse the bowl with each flush for exceptional cleanliness.”
Cifial Faucets Win Design Awards
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Cifial's Faucets Attract Attention: “Cifial USA has received three design awards from the Design Journal’s 2009 Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX). The company’s Quadra 25 wall-mount faucet was awarded a Platinum ADEX Award while the Techno 25 low-profile and Quadra 25 high-profile faucets were recognized with Gold ADEX Awards.
‘Building on the success of multiple years of recognition in the ADEX competition, the latest awards reinforce our commitment to superior product design,’ said Joseph Pinto, president of Cifial USA.
The ADEX Awards program, now in its 15th year, is an awards program recognizing exemplary product design in furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade. Design Journal, the international trade publication for interior designers, architects and facility managers, is the sponsor of the ADEX Awards.
All three award-winning Cifial faucets are WaterSense-certified and come standard with a 1.5-gpm flow rate, resulting in a 30 percent savings as compared to the industry standard of 2.2 gpm. The low-profile Techno 25 stands at just over 6 in. tall for smaller spaces while the high-profile Quadra 25 at 11 1/2 in. is an option for living spaces with full bars or kitchen islands.”
GROHE Essence Faucets For Your Kitchen
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GROHE – Essence – Cosmopolitan Style – Search by style – Kitchen – Products: “Pure clear lines characterise our Essence mixer faucet – the progressive design is ultra cool and free from all unnecessary detailing. Consisting of a single pillar, with an angular spout and minimal lever, Essence’s high-end look is enhanced with GROHE SilkMove technology. Available in two finishes, Chrome and SuperSteel, it is the ideal choice for sleek and structured kitchens featuring the very latest in technology and materials.”
Axor Massaud Bathtub by Hansgrohe
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Axor Massaud Bathtub | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Axor Massaud Bathtub
Axor Massaud. Nature Inspired Design. French designer Jean-Marie Massaud brings us back to our origins. Inspired by nature, he created the exhilarating Axor Massaud bathroom collection. A new addition in 2009 is the bath tub, where Massaud’s design concept is clearly visible – the harmonious connection between organic and geometrical shapes, natural aesthetics and modern design. With its extraordinary shape, the bath tub is everything one might expect in a modern bathroom.
Once again, Massaud has achieved a perfect symbiosis between human being, water, object and space.
Innovative and convenient. Thanks to its light weight, the bath tub, made from polyurethane foam with fiberglass and polyester gel coating, is easy to install. A convenient feature: the centrally operated push-open valve, pre-mounted drain set.”
Hansgrohe Axor Shower
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Shower | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Shower
The 5 x 5 inch shower module presents water in a sleek geometric design – whether in the form of an overhead, shoulder or side shower. In this custom-made shower, your needs are all that count. The elegant geometry in polished stainless steel transforms the ShowerHeaven into a luxurious architectural design element. The perfecly symmertrical showerhead has three spray modes to provide pure sensuality in the shower”
Hansgrohe Tango C
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Tango C | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Tango C with Classic Lever Handle
The popular Tango C series now features a new and more refined lever handle design that perfectly compliments any traditional bath decor. With its elegant contours, the slender handle emerges from a bell-shaped escutcheon whose concentric rings and radiant surfaces recall the craftsman traditions of a by-gone era when passion and precision gave character to a masterpiece”
Hansgrohe Talis C
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Talis C | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Talis C
With subtle curves and traditional features, the Talis C lavatory faucet lives up to its name bringing classic elegance inot the bathroom. Whether it be a spout with a graceful, pleasing shape or the new open waterfall-style spout-enjoy a unique water and design experience. Talis C compliments harmoniously with the Raindance C showers.”
Hansgrohe Metris C
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Metris C | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Metris C
Metris C is inspired by classic shapes from the past and incorporates them into modern faucets. The handle and spout are subtly curved while the surface accentuates the superior quality of the faucet. With its air of ease and vitality, Metris C exhudes a sense of luxury and provides an excellent match to the Raindance C showers. Metris Classic offers a wealth of sophisticated, carefully conceived detail in a world of bathroom style.”
Hansgrohe Metris S
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Metris S | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Metris S with Lever Handle
Metris S introduces new lever handles with a minimalist design. The lever handles mirror the contemporary faucet spout in its clean appearance while mimicking its smooth, rounded edges and wide, flat surfaces. With the new offering of lever handles, Metris S meets ADA compliance.”
Hansgrohe Raindance C
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Raindance C | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Raindance C
Raindance C. XXL Performance in a new traditional look with modern AIR technology. By mixing water with air, the shower spray is transformed into soft, voluminous rain drops. It is our pleasure to present the Raindance AIR in the new C Design, with its destinctively classic elements: a gentle, elegant curve and matching metallic sprayface. All of this in a range of sizes, from the Raindance C 100 AIR handshower with a 4-inch sprayface to the impressive 12-inch Raindance C 300 AIR showerhead. The 7-inch C 180 AIR and larger showerheads features a solid brass shell and a fully chromed sprayface, offering the perfect enhancement of its high-quality appearance.”
Hansgrohe Raindance Rainfall
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Raindance Rainfall | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Raindance Rainfall AIR: Experience the Natural Power of Water
The Rainfall AIR is a special experience in so many respects. As the first horizontal rain panel, it demands attention with its innovative look. Installed flush with the wall, it projects far into the shower area. Experience an entirely new shower sensation and enjoy the abundance of space in all three spray modes. The 10 inch Rain AiR spray mode lets you experience an abundant rainshower. The Whirl function gives you a powerful massage with several jets while the unique Rainflow places you under a lush waterfall.”
Hansgrohe PuraVida Faucets New for 2009!
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PuraVida | Welcome to Hansgrohe!: “Experience sensuality in the bathroom. Poetic, pureness and clarity of form. This is where we experience water, the flowing source of relaxation – and the color white, in all its beauty and brightness. White represents freshness and purity, something to be cherished day by day. Every morning, every evening, water and our senses are brought together. Pure. Sensual. Alive. PuraVida.”
Showhouse Woodmere Kitchen Faucet Old World Style
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The Woodmere Pulldown Kitchen Faucet has a distinctive design that combines modern function with old world style.
This faucet’s looks bring a feeling of warmth and permanence to your kitchen. Yet, the faucet has modern technology and function that today’s consumer demands.
It offer’s Moen’s trouble free pull down technology and their exclusive and patented pause button. This allows you to suspend the water flow from the wand and you do not have to touch the handle.
This neat little function make a big difference in actual use and it helps differentiate Moen and Moen Showhouse from the competition.
Is there not enough broken plumbing to go around?
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Maryland Man Sought in Restaurant Urinal Scam – washingtonpost.com: “Fredericksburg police are looking for a Maryland man accused of damaging urinals in restaurants and then posing as a plumber offering to fix them.
Police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe says urinals were damaged in at least seven restaurants in Fredericksburg on Friday afternoon.
The suspect then claimed to be a professional plumber and offered to repair the damage. Bledsoe says one restaurant paid the suspect but the work was faulty.
Police have charged 39-year-old Timothy Banks of Fort Washington, Md., with seven counts of felony vandalism and three counts of attempting to obtain money by false pretenses.
Bledsoe says Banks is charged with similar offenses in other localities, including Prince William and Fairfax counties.”
Kohler Shuts US plant & Expands Mexican Plant
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Kohler Co. announced plans this week to shift production to factories in Reynosa Mexixo, bolstering unemployment in a maquiladora industry assailed by a global downturn in manufacturing.
On Monday, Kohler Co. said it will shutter a U.S. plant and fold production of stainless steel sinks into its Reynosa facility.
Kohler said the expansion of its factory in Reynosa will not create new jobs. The company will rehire workers that had been laid off. Kohler declined to say how many jobs have been cut this recession.
With the downturn in housing, demand for sinks manufactured at Kohler’s Searcy, Ark., facility had fallen and the company had to fuse production with the factory in Reynosa, Todd Weber, a vice president for the Kohler, Wis.-based manufacturer said.
“Both of our plants are underutilized,” he added. Kohler expects to close the Searcy facility by the end of the year.
Often, new employment in Reynosa comes at the cost of domestic manufacturing jobs. At the Searcy, Ark. plant, which famously weathered a strike that lasted from December 2006 to November 2007, the majority of Kohler’s 57 employees will lose their jobs the day before Thanksgiving.
Buck Layne, president of the Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce, said that while the city was disappointed to lose the factory, the area has actually added jobs in recent months that could help mitigate the loss. The factory, which opened in 1966, once employed more than 400 people, Layne said.
The Reynosa plant, the other facility which manufactures sinks, opened in 2002 when the “housing market was thriving (and) demand for stainless steel sinks was equally robust,” the company said in a press release.
The recent economic revitalization in Searcy, a city with a population of about 20,000, has been led by natural gas companies, which have added about 2,000 jobs in the last 18 months, Layne said.
“It’s a global economy these days, but we need to make sure that we’re playing on an even field,” Layne said. “It’s just very discouraging to see jobs leaving the U.S.”
From the Monitor’s Sean Gaffney
Kohler Oblo K-10085-9 Chrome Two-handle Monoblock Lavatory Faucet
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Kohler Oblo K-10085-9 Chrome Two-handle Monoblock Lavatory Faucet
Oblo™ two-handle monoblock lavatory faucet
With its grand scale, the Oblo faucet line establishes a presence at once substantial and graceful. Drawing inspiration from a Euro-modern aesthetic, each faucet, from the Oblo monoblock lavatory faucet to the showerhead, offers a distinctive profile as well as reliable performance.
Delta Faucet Victorian 75050-RB Venetian Bronze Bath Accessory – Tissue Holder
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Delta Faucet Victorian 75050-RB Venetian Bronze Bath Accessory – Tissue Holder
Full collection carries old world charm through an entire home. Soft curves offer a timeless design. Coordinates beautifully with the faucets in the Victorian Bath Collection.
Delta Faucet Victorian Venetian Bronze Bath Accessory is Available at DesignerPlumbingOutlet
