Is Delta’s Touch2O Technology Troubled? How many times do you turn on and off your faucet in the kitchen? How many times do you turn on the faucet when your hands are dirty? Delta offers Touch20 Technology, which uses touch-sensor technology to allow you to turn on the faucet by touching any part of it with any part of you. We have become accustomed to motion sensor cleaning in public restrooms. The soap and water turn on if we put our hands in the right place. The paper towel dispenser comes to life when we wave our hand over the sensor or the air hand dryer turns on when we put our hands beneath the dryer. We have accepted this. Now Delta is trying to get us to accept Touch20 in our kitchens. The concept is great. It seems we always have dirty hands during cooking and it would be great to have the water turn on rather than coat the faucet with flour, or grease, or tomato sauce. When we are buying things for ourselves, rather than using them in public places, many people put more emphasis on need and cost.

Do we need to have a faucet that turns on by touching it with our forearm or can we just wipe it off after we get it dirty? Is the additional cost worth the added value? The troubling aspect of this technology came up during research. The all-famous “Let’s Google it” turned up technology issues. For one thing, Delta is combining water and electricity. But actually the product uses batteries, so not a big deal. But, more importantly, many of the posts on the Touch20 technology dealt with troubling problems such as sensor not working, faucet turning on by itself, and more. Most of the time, comment reviews tend towards the negative, because people tend to search for information about a product when it isn’t working properly. So we dismissed many of these. True product reviews of this Delta faucet say the installation is a bit long but has good instructions, and the product works flawlessly once you get the hang of it, but the price of the product lends itself mostly towards a posh kitchen.

So, the Touch20 is not troubled. It’s a cool innovation that may gain wide acceptance over time.Stylish Kitchen Faucet with Great Features.Color: StainlessBetter than I had hoped for!We first noticed this faucet when checking out styles in Home Depot. We liked the tall neck, the stainless finish, the spray nozzle and although not necessary the touch feature was pretty cool. The only thing we didn't care for was the price; at $400 it was more than we cared to spend. But me being a bargain hunter, I set out to find it at a price we could accept. I tracked it for a month or so and bought when it went just below $330 here on Amazon and although we didn't plan on using the soap dispenser because we only had one hole drilled in our granite, it was cheaper to purchase this set than the faucet alone.Installation was a nightmare, but only because of the way our kitchen plumbing was "updated" by the previous homeowner. What should have taken maybe 30-45 minutes, took half the day with a two trips to the hardware store.

Once installed though it was PERFECT! I thought it would take some getting used to, but I don't even reach for the handle anymore. It's nice for someone that likes to cook like me, being able to turn the water on without transferring any food stuff that may be on my hands. Best Tires For Ford F150 Fx2The only thing I don't like is if it's turned off in the spray mode it drips for a few seconds, but I don't notice this when it's on stream.Gsp Puppies For Sale In MississippiAs a note this faucet will work for a single hole like ours that doesn't require a faceplate, but it will also work on a 2 or 3 hole set-up.Cork Flooring Mobile AlIt's a lot like my wife...Love it, but needs a little workColor: Stainless Buy this sink, and read this review before installing it!!!

Don't waste you money. Customer service a jokeColor: Stainless|Most expensive piece of crap I ever purchased!Color: StainlessDO NOT BUYColor: Arctic Stainless|Installation is a challenge, otherwise a fine faucet!Delta's Touch Sensitive Faucet does one thing and one thing well: It dispenses water when touched with any part of your body, then shuts off when touched again. Not only that, it's also a pretty fantastic faucet. $547 on Delta's site, but $300ish if you shop around This is a high quality faucet, even without the touch features, and most likely beats whatever faucet you have installed in your house when you built/bought it. Add the touch features to that, and you get the first true revolution in sink faucets that I've seen in a while.This actually isn't Delta's first touch-sensitive faucet. They had one model before that had this feature plus a motion-sensitivity, and discovered that most people only used the touch-sensitivity and decided to focus there instead. It's a little bit of a hassle to install, because you actually have to follow a series of instructions that has you removing your old faucet and installing this one (with the electronics that controls the touch-sensitivity).

You actually need two people at one point, when you want to make sure you align the faucet correctly above the sink while the person below tightens.It's not completely undoable if you have a spare hand and you're somewhat knowledgeable with tools, but I had a Delta professional install it to ensure optimum performance, and it didn't take too much longer than an hour. The touch sensitivity, if installed correctly, is good, but not overly sensitive. The faucet and water handle, on the right, are both smart enough to detect the difference between a grasp—when you're moving the thing around—and a tap—when you're turning it on and off.You turn on the faucet like any other faucet, by using the handle and switching it left for hot and right for cold. Once it's "on", you can tap anywhere on the body or the handle to turn it off. Tap it again to turn it back on. When you're completely done with washing, pull the handle down to the off position to ensure that a cat or a jumping baby brushing past it doesn't activate the water flow.

It's also got a 4-minute timeout, so even if you do forget to turn the thing off, an accidental activation won't flood your house. It's pretty great as an actual faucet too. The head has a pull-down for spray flexibility, and you can adjust the type of spray (like a shower) in one of two modes.If you install it yourself, make sure you install the base plate insulation unit, because if you don't, you're going to get finicky performance from the touch-sensitivity part. I had to have the installer revisit a couple times because it's not so clear in the instructions that many sinks need it, so even if you think you don't, put it in. Not doing so will make the touch only work 1 out of 3 or 4 times, which is a painful grey zone between not working at all, which is fine, and working all the time. If something like this happens to you, you can luckily disable the touch portion and just use it as a regular faucet until you get around to repairing it.Also, be aware that you're going to get false positives occasionally when you're reaching over and grabbing something off your sink and you brush against the faucet.