DIY Installing a Touch-Activated Kitchen Faucet
Posted in Plumbing Remodeling
By Matt Weber
How to Install a Touch-Activated Kitchen Faucet
For an avid cook, the advantages of a touch-activated faucet should be immediately apparent. Imagine your hands are covered with pizza dough or cake icing. You need to wash up, but that means spreading the mess all over the faucet handles. With a touch-activated faucet you can use your forearm, elbow, or that one remaining clean finger to simply tap the faucet anywhere on the spout or handle, which turns on the water without causing a mess. When preparing raw chicken or other foods that carry potentially harmful bacteria, a touch-activated faucet reduces the likelihood of cross-contamination from messy hands or taint-ed faucet handles, providing a safer, healthier environment for food prep.
Shown is the valve/handle assembly that has three tubes: the faucet's hot and cold water lines, as well as the shorter valve outlet that interfaces with the solenoid.
Touch-activated faucets also turn off with a simple tap of the hand, giving the user time to focus on tasks such as washing a dish. To turn back on the water for rinsing, a simple tap reactivates the same water volume and temperature that you’ve been using.
Shown is the valve/handle assembly that has three tubes: the faucet's hot and cold water lines, as well as the shorter valve outlet that interfaces with the solenoid.
