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I have a GS faucets (Italian company) thermostatic kitchen faucet, which I think is no longer in production, although you can see the shower thermostatic cartridge it uses at the link. It looks a lot like this Chinese knock-off, maybe that's why it isn't sold by GS anymore. It's all brass and has mostly been pretty reliable, although I have disassembled the thermostatic cartridge twice in about seven years to clean (soaked it in CLR) when it would get sticky and not control the temperature over the full range. This is on a copper-piped backwashing carbon-filtered and softened city water supply, so pretty benign environment.
Now one of the few plastic bits, the rotation stop in the plastic temperature knob, has broken. It's sad to consider replacing what has been a nice faucet for such a trivial part, but it does affect it's use by untrained operators. And the wife and kids don't seem to be trainable to not rotate the temperature knob more than 360 degrees.
I really like the fact they thought to put a thermostatic shower cartridge in a kitchen faucet. Mostly we never touch the temperature knob, just turn on the volume knob and 104 degree water comes out. Is there any such animal available from a quality manufacturer? Having gone through quite a few too-plastic kitchen faucets I'm reluctant to consider most of the garbage on the market.
Failing to find a thermostatic version, what is a good, all-metal faucet with a quality replaceable cartridge? My understanding is the usual suspects often use cheap plastic ball valves that don't last. Are ceramic disc cartridges the way to go?
Now one of the few plastic bits, the rotation stop in the plastic temperature knob, has broken. It's sad to consider replacing what has been a nice faucet for such a trivial part, but it does affect it's use by untrained operators. And the wife and kids don't seem to be trainable to not rotate the temperature knob more than 360 degrees.
I really like the fact they thought to put a thermostatic shower cartridge in a kitchen faucet. Mostly we never touch the temperature knob, just turn on the volume knob and 104 degree water comes out. Is there any such animal available from a quality manufacturer? Having gone through quite a few too-plastic kitchen faucets I'm reluctant to consider most of the garbage on the market.
Failing to find a thermostatic version, what is a good, all-metal faucet with a quality replaceable cartridge? My understanding is the usual suspects often use cheap plastic ball valves that don't last. Are ceramic disc cartridges the way to go?
