Anyone know what is happening here? A Plumber?

[justjunque]

Let me start by emphasizing that I'm probably the least do-it-yourselfy person on this site.
And, I have no personal knowledge of plumbing fixtures. But, when we needed to replace our kitchen faucet, some years ago, we were advised to stick with Delta or Moen. We were told that they're the only brands that can be repaired when needed. Is it true? I don't know. But, the faucet hasn't given us any problems.

 

[ea56]

Our kitchen faucet is a Peerless and repair parts are readily available should the need arise, which it hasn’t and our shower/tub faucet is a Price-Pfister that was installed when the home was built in 1980 and I’ve replaced the cartridge twice in the 29 years we’ve lived here to repair a dripping faucet and both times had no problem finding the necessary part.

BTW, I really love the Peerless High Arch, two handle faucet in our kitchen sink. Its the best we’ve ever had! And if was quite reasonable in price. The high arch faucet makes it really easy to wash and rinse large pots and pans and it really looks nice too.

Eddie

 

[mark_wpduet]

Yea - the sink looks really good... even though I think it's just a standard sink they put in all homes with the BOL faucet.. I sometimes wish I had one giant sink instead of two... then other times I'm glad I have two..

 

[askolover]

I bought a dollar tree toilet brush that just fits through the disposer opening.  I sprinkle Comet (that has chlorine in it) on the brush and then go to town in there.  When I pull the brush out it inverts the rubber baffles and scrubs them too. 

 

But yes the plastic pipes under the sink do get gunk built up in them from time to time..my mom's does also.  We never had that problem back when pipes were brass...copper is a natural antimicrobial and brass has copper in it.  I need to replace the baffle on my disposer and will probably switch to a brass pipe when I do that. Already have the pipe, just need to install it.

 

[ea56]

Re:#21

Mark,
From the photo of your kitchen sink it appears that you have a counter top water filter with the hose connected to a diverter valve at the faucet for dispensing filtered water. We also used to have a water filter like this. Our water has a lot of chlorine in it so we use a filter to get the awful taste of chlorine out of the water.

We got rid of the counter top filter and switched to a faucet mount water filter made by iSprings a company located in Alpharetta, Georgia. We have the DF2 filter and it is excellent! The filters last for 6 months and are easy to change. These filters and replacement filters are always available on eBay and at Lowes and I believe Amazon too. I highly recommend this water filter.

We’ve been using water filters since we moved into our home over 29 years ago. We’ve used Btita, both faucet mount and dispenser model filters and PUR faucet mount filters and counter top filter. The iSprings DF2 is hands down the best! We also had a GE undersink mount filter with a dedicated faucet on the sink top for the filtered water to dispense from, but it made the pipes knock.

The iSpring DF2 looks nice on the high arch faucet and its very convenient. We’ve had this filter for over 5 years without any problems. Its simple and sturdily made.

Eddie

 

[mark_wpduet]

This is a reverse osmosis countertop filter... and lemme tell ya...it's freaking amazing... I have 2 glass gallon jugs I bought off amazon...fill them (because it's slow) I have to set a timer as it fills. TDS is 2 PPM... water tastes like nothing..completely pure.. I also have a water distiller I bought a LONG time ago...I put some Reverse osmosis water in the distiller and distilled some water and there was NO sediment or minerals in the bottom of the distiller. If I'd used tap water it would have been like this brown sludge in the bottom.

This is the one I got.. At first I thought it would look unsightly on the counter or be in the way but it's really not that bad at all

Here's the one I got... 3 of the filters get changed every six months and one of them get changed once per year...
I think a filter set is like $50

 

[ea56]

Re:#24

Thats quite a set up Mark. I’m glad that it works well for you and that you are happy with the filtered water from this counter top filter system.

The filtered water that I get from my iSprings faucet mount filter is free of any unpleasant taste or smell too. And it comes out of the filtered side of the faucet filter just as fast as from the unfiltered side. I’ve never attempted to distill the filtered water from my faucet mount filter, but I suspect that there would be little if any sediment in it. Our city water is very clean, its just the chlorine that we object to and the faucet mount filter takes care of removing the chlorine to our satisfaction. We use filtered water in the tea kettle and there is minimal build up of any calcium deposits inside of it.

The only reason that I suggested this filter to you is because when we had our PUR counter top filter I hated having the tubing running on the back of the sink and on the faucet. Since this isn’t an issue for you then you’re good to go.

Eddie