Touch/touchless kitchen faucets

[HiggyBaby 2616]

We are remodeling and putting in a fancy faucet. Moen and Kohler have a line of faucets that have a touchless sensor. Delta has some faucets where you have to touch the surface. Any advantages to these different technologies one way or the other?

[Catpfish 618]

The touch are a nice concept but they suck after a while.  Sometimes you have to touch it multiple times and then it'll turn off randomly.  I think we have a Grohe.  

[deadshank 24654]

Just get a regular mechanical faucet.  Don't fall prey to electronic crap designed to take  place of tried and true mechanical stuff.

Is your wife behind the touch / touchless faucet proposition?  Germs, CV19, Ebola and what not?

[conVINCEd 21477]

I have never felt that flipping the faucet on was an overly-taxing proposition.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22247]

I sure your wife would prefer not to touch your long stiff "faucet" so go with the touchless.

[Not that Bob 743]

While I do understand the convenience of not having to  touch the faucet lever with hands covered in chicken blood from grill prep, or oil from mechanics chores, I also think it's a problem to introduce a computer chip into a simple mechanical device. That said, even "simple" mechanical faucets now contain many plastic parts and are much more complicated than the simple brass worm gear of the past...but that's a subject for the "shit that pisses off old men" thread. There are toe and knee operated levers used in medical settings, but I doubt that would pass the wife's desired design elements and would be considerably more expensive. 

[gyroprotagonist 2597]

eff the luddites.  I like ours.  no real issues other than changing batteries out.  I think we have had it for 4-5 years now.  

the haters probably still type out the 'https://www' part of urls

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

37 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Just get a regular mechanical faucet.  Don't fall prey to electronic crap designed to take  place of tried and true mechanical stuff.

Is your wife behind the touch / touchless faucet proposition?  Germs, CV19, Ebola and what not?

This ^^

[MonkeyDoughnut 10765]

I had looked at these before and you still had to use the handle to adjust the temperature and/or water pressure which I pretty much do almost every time I use/turn on the sink water anyway.  Has that changed or do you still have to manually adjust the handle to control these?

Edited June 2, 2020 by MonkeyDoughnut

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 hours ago, gyroprotagonist said:

eff the luddites.  I like ours.  no real issues other than changing batteries out.  I think we have had it for 4-5 years now.  

the haters probably still type out the 'https://www' part of urls

Yes, I think having to change batteries to get water is a good thing....

[gsoda3 3358]

skip it.  it's a hassle when guests are over or if one of the kids knocks the temperature off from the correct setting.  

[Okie State 3888]

Every electronic faucet I've ever used has been terrible. So there's that.

[52-80 19374]

touch anything is fucking retarded.  we have touch controls only for our induction stove and it bugs me daily

[conVINCEd 21477]

Do these things have apps?  I have always longed for the ability to control my faucet from my phone.

[orange dream 1288]

We've had a Moen version for about 7 years.  I wasn't particularly sold on it but relented to the wife's requests and I have to say it is great.  Ours is touchless and can be activated in two ways, first by putting your hands or a glass, dish, etc. where you would normally put them to wash hands or fill a glass which will turn the water on for as long as motion is detected in that space.  The second option is to wave your hand over the top of the neck of the faucet which will activate the water for about 10 minutes. Ours is plugged in so no idea about the battery issues others have mentioned. The comments about adjusting temp is valid, but hasn't been that big of an issue in my opinion.  I don't know why anyone would pick the touch version instead of touchless.  If you are going to have to touch it you might as well just push the handle. 

[HiggyBaby 2616]

Danke. We are going with a touchless Moen model.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10765]

OK.... HOLDUP!!!  I looked and now there are voice (and app) controlled models... actually pretty damn sweet.

Do I need it... nope. Will I get it just cause... probably

 

 

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22247]

So instead of turning a knob to get water you can reach into your pocket, pull out your phone, open an app, turn on the water, put your phone down, wash your hands, dry your hands, pick up your phone, turn the water off, close the app, and put your phone back in your pocket. What kind of labor saving gizmo will they think of next.

[Dahobbs 18196]

26 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

OK.... HOLDUP!!!  I looked and now there are voice (and app) controlled models... actually pretty damn sweet.

Do I need it... nope. Will I get it just cause... probably

 

 

 

I don't know about the rest of it, but being able to specify a specific temperature would be awesome (assuming it actually works). 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10765]

15 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So instead of turning a knob to get water you can reach into your pocket, pull out your phone, open an app, turn on the water, put your phone down, wash your hands, dry your hands, pick up your phone, turn the water off, close the app, and put your phone back in your pocket. What kind of labor saving gizmo will they think of next.

All about the presets using Alexa, Google, etc.

Baby bottle amount and temp a good example.

Coffee pot to 8 cups.. .etc

Wash hands... comes out at certain temp and volume.. 

 

Not to mention helping in certain physical handicap situations. 

 

Is it ground breaking, ehh, but it does finally make it "different" than prior "no" touch where you still had to touch for temp or volume control.

[Updawg 2378]

I have the morning touch less as well.

Every few weeks I need to unplug it from the battery pack to reset it but that isn’t a big deal. Need to see if I can plug it directly in instead.

[justhookit 4205]

It’s because you touch yourself your faucet at night.

[After irth 1245]

On 6/2/2020 at 1:59 PM, orange dream said:

We've had a Moen version for about 7 years.  I wasn't particularly sold on it but relented to the wife's requests and I have to say it is great.  Ours is touchless and can be activated in two ways, first by putting your hands or a glass, dish, etc. where you would normally put them to wash hands or fill a glass which will turn the water on for as long as motion is detected in that space.  The second option is to wave your hand over the top of the neck of the faucet which will activate the water for about 10 minutes. Ours is plugged in so no idea about the battery issues others have mentioned. The comments about adjusting temp is valid, but hasn't been that big of an issue in my opinion.  I don't know why anyone would pick the touch version instead of touchless.  If you are going to have to touch it you might as well just push the handle. 

Thanks for this, just bought the Arbor Motionsense by Moen with the AC adapter.  Nice to know it's gonna work well.  I would've been perfectly happy with the manual one, but the wife (no pics), who is as old-school as I am, said to go for the touchless and give it a try.  Gonna install it tomorrow with a new Insinkerator Evolution Excel with a sink-top switch.  Not looking forward to rolling around in the cabinet, but definitely looking forward to the new setup.

[KYHorn 17568]

We have a fancy Kohler I bought on eBay that unexpectedly came with touch and a temperature light. The touch can be handy when washing dishes/cooking if you're trying to conserve water. It took some getting used to. The temperature light is pretty cool because you don't need to use a hand to check the temperature. If I'm holding a kid to wash hands, I can visually tell if the water is too hot, and then if I get a glass of water, I can see immediately when the water has gotten cold.