In order to enjoy a comfortable and salutary life in your bathroom, selecting a good faucet is absolutely very important. The following we will tell you how to pick a good faucet.
1. Style
The styles of the faucet must match the wash basin, sink or bathtub. The faucet should match the mountinghole of wash basin (one hole or three holes). It will be perfect that their styles are the same.
2. Function
The faucet has a variety of styles and a variety of functions. By usage they can be sort as basin faucet, kitchen faucet, bathtub faucet, shower faucet and etc. By function they can be sort as normal faucet, automatic sensory faucet and thermostat faucet and so on. For example: the automatic faucets with automatic sensors water features, the hands close to faucet then water will automatically flow out. It is convenience and clean, more suitable for the bathrooms in group places.
3. Cartridge
The cartridge is the heart of the faucet mixer. The ceramic cartridge is the best cartridge. The high ability faucet is all made by ceramic cartridge. All the high ability faucet are used ceramic cartridge, which is wearable and good sealing. One ceramic cartridge can be used for 30 to 50 million times or more. The cheap faucet will use copper or rubber seals, which has a short service life but lower price.
4.Surface finish
When you picking up a faucet, you should pay concentration to the gloss of the surface. There should not be burr, holes, oxidation spots, or etc.
The High-quality faucet should be made by the following steps. The brass body of faucet is cast by brass. After polishing, it will be plated three layer of the surface. First is the acid copper. The second is nickel. The last one, what we can see on the surface is chrome. The cheap faucet will skip the layer of acid copper. There are standards of the plating layers. All the good faucet should pass a neutral salt spray test to make sure the goods will not rust in a specified period. So the high-quality faucet can be always shining after long time use.
5.Check the parts
Gently turn the handle to see if it is light and flexible. Check the faucets in all parts, especially the main parts of the assembly is close, there should be no loose feeling.
6.Hydraulic requirement
The normal requirements of home water pressure is not less than 0.05Mpa (0.5kgf/cm2). The faucet should be used in a pressure not less than this. After using a duration of time, if you found out the water flow to be small, you can open the outlet of the faucet to clean the dirty things. After that, the water flow should be normal.
How To Pick Up a Faucet for Your Bathroom