Kitchen faucet - pre-rinse or pull down?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have strong feelings? I’ve read that pre-rinse faucets have stronger spray, but they seem to have the same gpm numbers so I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what a pre-rinse faucet is, but I do know every person I know who has a pull down now has a "dangling and not completely retracting" faucet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what a pre-rinse faucet is, but I do know every person I know who has a pull down now has a "dangling and not completely retracting" faucet.

Pre-rinse is the kind where the top of the faucet is bendy and the whole thing can pull down and out. There’s usually a coil situation around the top. They’re based on the “pre-rinse” faucets in commercial kitchens where you blast off stuck on food before dishes go through the automatic washer.

[Anonymous]

What is a pre-rinse faucet? We love our pull down faucet and have not had the problem PP describes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what a pre-rinse faucet is, but I do know every person I know who has a pull down now has a "dangling and not completely retracting" faucet.

Pre-rinse is the kind where the top of the faucet is bendy and the whole thing can pull down and out. There’s usually a coil situation around the top. They’re based on the “pre-rinse” faucets in commercial kitchens where you blast off stuck on food before dishes go through the automatic washer.

SO is it the same thing as a pull down faucet except without the housing?

[Anonymous]

I used one of these when I worked in a commercial kitchen. I wouldn’t recommend it for home use - it sprays really strongly and will splash too much. The pull down is also really “bouncy” and can spring up unexpectedly. It’s fine if you’re working in a bathtub size sink wearing your apron and low-end work clothes and you expect to get dirty. At home? No thanks.

[Anonymous]

A consumer pre-rinse has the same GPM as a pull down. It’s purely an aesthetic preference for what you want your faucet to look like

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what a pre-rinse faucet is, but I do know every person I know who has a pull down now has a "dangling and not completely retracting" faucet.

Pre-rinse is the kind where the top of the faucet is bendy and the whole thing can pull down and out. There’s usually a coil situation around the top. They’re based on the “pre-rinse” faucets in commercial kitchens where you blast off stuck on food before dishes go through the automatic washer.

SO is it the same thing as a pull down faucet except without the housing?

No because the whole thing kind of bounces around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used one of these when I worked in a commercial kitchen. I wouldn’t recommend it for home use - it sprays really strongly and will splash too much. The pull down is also really “bouncy” and can spring up unexpectedly. It’s fine if you’re working in a bathtub size sink wearing your apron and low-end work clothes and you expect to get dirty. At home? No thanks.

The consumer ones aren’t nearly as tall or powerful as the commercial ones though.

[Anonymous]

Do you have to press the button to get water? If so that would be a dealbreaker for me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to press the button to get water? If so that would be a dealbreaker for me

No, the button just changes from regular to spray pattern. That’s the same as a pull down. A commercial one only has a spray pattern but I think all the consumer ones have both.

[Anonymous]

I think they're ugly, honestly

[Anonymous]

2 sinks, 2 Grohe pull down faucets, neither dangle. Very hapoy with them.

[Anonymous]

The kind with the exposed coils looks like a cleaning nightmare, honestly. I guess if commercial kitchens use them they must be easy to clean, but I can't see how you get behind and around those coils.

[Anonymous]

Our pull down doesn’t dangle either and it’s at least 5 years old. If yours dangles, you just adjust the counterweight under the sink - it takes 5 seconds. Are people really this clueless. It’s like my neighbor who thought his water heater was broken because he didn’t know you could turn it up.