I just ordered a touchless faucet for my kitchen sink. It has a regular handle to turn it on or off, but when it is on, you can wave your hand by its sensor and wave it on or off.
And i decided to pay an extra $110 to get it in brushed nickel instead of chrome.
Something like this:
I’m jealous, our kitchen faucet is a POS that likes to drip. We have to fiddle with the handle sometimes. I hope it serves you well, looks great!
that’s a lot of money
But that’s pretty cool. Didn’t know suck thing existed for households.
Great typo, lol.
After you’ve had it a bit would you be willing to post how you like it? My concern is that I will inadvertently wave it off/on when that is not what I actually want. I need to replace my kitchen faucet* but I’m afraid I won’t like the touchless feature. If it works like touchless restroom faucets then I know I’ll hate it. I definitely want the option for the water to run without anything in front of the sensor area.
*completely dumb… the decorative cover broke, but the faucet itself works just fine. So I’m in no particular hurry.
It’s even more than it looks like, because they tend to fail sooner than ordinary faucets. This is a replacement for one that’s gotten very fussy. We decided we liked the functionality so much that we’d get another, even knowing they are short-lived.
ours has been TERRIBLE. last weekend, i took attempt #3 on new handle and pressure valve/ball. it works astonishingly well right now, better than anyone can remember. i beam with pride when it gets used and i demand comment from the user about how amazing it is now working. (a situation I expect will last for at most, one month.)
It definitely stays on if you just leave it on. It’s a toggle, not a “stand there in front of it” feature. The old one sometimes turned off if it was triggered by steam coming off pasta or something. The new one has the sensor on top of the spout, instead of on the bottom, which I expect will fix that problem.
We loved it. It was awesome if you were:
cutting up chicken – turn it on and wave if off before you start, then just wave it on to wash your hands
rinsing dishes – set the temp, rinse the first dish, wave it off, wash the next dish, etc. We found it amazingly more convenient to wave it on and off than to fiddle with the handle to turn a regular faucet on and off for a short rinse of a dish
Basically, it works like a regular faucet, with an added feature. Except sometimes it’s left on the “wave off” position, and you need to wave it was well as turn the handle. Which we all got used to and didn’t even think about, but guests sometimes had trouble with it.
Yeah, I can definitely see the benefit when you’re working with raw meat, although I’d probably forget to set it to wave before I started and still be standing there with raw meat hands needing to touch it.
I hadn’t thought about rinsing dishes. I usually manually turn off & on, but I guess it might go marginally faster if you didn’t have to do that.
With the old one, it was really a game changer when rinsing dishes. I’m curious if the “above the spout” sensor will be as handy. But I basically didn’t bother to turn the faucet on and off between dishes before I got it, or I would wash a batch and rinse a batch. After getting used to the sensor, I individually rinsed most dishes, and thought nothing of it.
My $1500 Hermes Apple Watch band cuts off my circulation the band is so small. That’ll learn me to purchase nice things.
that’s a thing?
I don’t understand people. I must not be one.
This is my $15 Apple Watch band. It’s not Hermes, but it’s also not $1,500.
Mine is the rainbow band.
It’s kinda like those fancy watches men buy sometimes… like Rolex or Tag Heuer or whatever.
I had a watch when I was a kid. Hated it. Made my wrist sweaty all the time.
My arm hairs would get caught in the links. It was ****in’ annoying!!!
I wear a watch with specific functions for specific functions. No other time. I have a few watches from my father that don’t work. Seiko’s mostly.
I prefer my watch on my right wrist (lapsed left-hander), and it is not conducive to working a mouse (I use my right hand for that).
I normally wear an Apple Watch, with the rubber band that came with it. I just upgraded from the series 3 to the 7. It’s nice to track exercise, and checking on my grill temps on the Weber iGrill.
My wife got me a stainless Movado for special occasions, and I have a gold Movado that I bought at an auction, it’s about 40 years old and I like it.
Yeah, I have my iPod for that.
Me, too, but it was the plastic watch band. I can wear leather or stainless steel without that problem.
I really prefer a watch to having to fish my phone out of my pocket, or go looking for a clock. I have a very out sense of time, and even for minor stuff, it’s handy to have that reminder.