Best touchless kitchen sink faucets according to redditors
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best touchless kitchen sink faucets. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best touchless kitchen sink faucets. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Just get something like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Y6LLTM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d7sLDbZCHW6KP
There are also touch varieties:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DD7N3RT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_X6sLDbKPN4765
Album:
https://imgur.com/a/DxrFG
After moving in our home, we quickly realized the kitchen was not going to work for us with its layout and the condition of the cabinets. The pictures tell the whole story. The kitchen had a big wall to enclose it and was probably the hot thing to do in the 80s. it also had a soffit above the 30 inch upper cabinets which made an already low 8 foot ceiling even lower. The kitchen cabinets were horrendous and falling apart, so there was no real refacing options to fix them. The previous owners attempted to put lipstick on a pig by tiling over the old countertops and only made more of a mess. The kitchen, dining room, and den were one room but the wall really made everything feel small and blocked the light. It felt like a dungeon with the yellow bulb ceiling fans being so low in an 8 foot room. The dining room area had two old aluminum windows with a window A/C screwed into the frame. The tile in the kitchen flowed into the den where id had an ugly laminate. The fireplace and featurette window was really the only charm of the entire room. The fireplace had a really ugly wood paneling beside it, so it needed to be removed to update the room. The fireplace hearth was also ugly, chipped, and had more ugly wood surrounds on it. The ceilings had an ornate look to it that was really awesome, but we knew that we would have to put fresh drywall on the ceilings once we took out the soffit above the kitchen.
I am not a DIYer, but my stepdad is and offered to help and teach me. He let me know the wall in the kitchen was not load bearing and could be removed. The attic space above the kitchen/den was very spacious to maneuver in so we were able to predict a lot of problem areas. So then the demo starts and we realize that plumbing is a major issue. We had to come up with some PEX solutions to reroute the plumbing hidden in the soffit and some issues had to simply remain unsolved. I think all soffits hold secrets, so beware removing the soffit! I chiseled out all the old tile and grout and they came up surprisingly easy from the concrete subfloor. When we realized that all the wiring was stapled to the 2x4s in the back wall, we had no choice but to demo the entire wall. This was no easy demo of drywall. This was drywall + stucco and wire lathing + plaster on top in places. It was thick and the walls were built like a tank. It took a ton of demo blades to cut everything out and a lot of time. Once we peeled the walls back I figured I would peel more back in the dining area so I could replace the windows with a sliding door. That revealed the worst thing of all. TERMITES! They literally ate the entire wall. I hired a carpenter to help us build a new header and studs and put in the slider. We rerouted the plumbing, and then did a ton of electrical work to outfit the new kitchen wall to code since we moved the stove. We also ran additional wiring for under cabinet lighting to a switch. We trenched an electric wire in the concrete sub floor to power the island. We extended the outlets behind the fireplace cabinets so we could use the for a future TV. We sealed up the chimney and ran an electric line into the fireplace itself to set it up for an electric insert.
Links to some materials used:
Bulbs: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OU2TM12/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Pendants:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0753HS6CC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
sink:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032C0Q9I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
faucet:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Y6LLTM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Cabinets: Home Depot Hampton Bay Shaker. Pro tip: Order them really far in advance due to possibility of damages. Took two weeks to get a new pantry cabinet in. The online cabinets have a slightly different look than the instore cabinets. They will not match!
Tile: Floor and Decor wood look. Exact SKU is in the pictures.
I recently bought a $169 Kohler Malleco touchless kitchen faucet from Costco and absolutely love it. The sensor is perfectly calibrated and works reliably and extremely well.
Like others have said, use the side sprayer hole to install a soap dispenser (this faucet does come with one, by the way).
Again, the touchless feature is super-awesome in the kitchen. You may think it’s a gimmick but trust me, you won’t be able to live without it.
Edit: if you’re put off by the seemingly low average of amazon reviews, make sure you read the negative reviews: they’re either about no fit in someone’s kitchen, or posted by people who don’t understand how it works.
The faucet will be for a single basin 33" composite granite bowl. We'd prefer a name brand faucet (Kohler, Moen, Delta, etc) for reliability. The more we think about it, maybe it'll help to keep costs down (at least a little) if we go with a "hard" goose-neck, with a touch sensor, and the faucet head connected to a retractable pull out hose. If that makes sense?
This is the kind of sink we're looking at. This is the kind of faucet.