Song Dog

In service repair and replacement, what faucets do you use?
I use Wolverine.
Well, I use Wolverine for most of my parts and assemblies.

In Christ,

Song Dog

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22rifle

Heh heh. I bet I know what inspired you to make this post! -grin

I prefer Wolverine. Can't do the volume right now to deal with them so I use mostly Delta.

BTW, somehere around here I have a sweet little cast Wolverine Brass bank/truck from about 10 years or so ago. Anyone remember those? Our rep gave it to the company I worked for and I won it in a grab bag thing my boss did.

Song Dog

22, How did you know?
I got one of those banks. Rhett and Grace TRY to play with it

I sold a Kitch friday,a 2 hndl Lav saturday and 2 hnld Lav ordered

Btw- My rep dropped off a awesome knife the other day, could darn near shave with it.

In Christ,

Song Dog

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threaderman

Wolverine is a fine brand though I haven't installed one in years.It seems as though delta, price phister and amer.std. are popular here.

Herk

I've had a lot of trouble with Wolverines in this hard water area. I'm guessing the cartridge has changed a bit from the old days when I had to bust them to pieces to get them out. I still have some of those cartridges on the truck.

When "Plumber Friendly" came out, I thought that was a great idea and invested a pile of money in them. Turned out they were a subsidiary of Wolverine and the main company decided to take them under its umbrella again when they proved successful and Plumber Friendly ceased to exist.

Bother.

I've had a bit of trouble with the cheap pressure-balance cartridge they use freezing up.

Most of my customers like the lowest priced faucets they can get and of course I stay away from plastic and try to use something that will hold up for a few years. The best bang for the buck is the Peerless with its Delta parts and you can get 'em cheap. They have a solid brass body and now have ceramic cartridges.

I shy away from Moen since they decided that so many of their faucets should have those teensy machine screws holding the faucet handle on. They keep winding themselves out and either bend or fall off in the sink. However, I still lean toward the Moen Posi-Temp for tub and shower valves.

For a better-quality sink and lav faucet, I like Gerber or American Standard. My Gerber pull-out needs a new head about once every three years when the rubber buttons wear out, but other than that has never needed anything. The heads are universal and you can get 'em at Homey for $20.

threaderman

I repaired a odd 2 handle tub/shower valve today,it was made by sterling,square shaft from the stem instead of the round stem with splines.
I believe the valve has some years on it.It has some plastic guts that look similar to a multi-layered delta cartridge only with the cone washer and spring in the middle of the cartridge,but the stem /cartridge is in 2 pieces and I don't think the inner plastic body comes out.
In order to re-install it,you have to work the stem shaft back and forth as you tighten the bonnet nut or the stem will snap.It was different.

Killertoiletspider

Our usage tends to run in cycles, it whatever is the hot thing at the showhouse in the Merchandise Mart, two years ago it was Jado and Rohl for the most part, now it is Waterworks, Phyllrich, and Kallista. For big multi outlet showers we use mostly Dornbracht and Hansgrohe thermostatic and control valves, they seem to deliver the best volume. We occasionally install a Kohler wall mounted lav faucet, but the number of those is dropping now that Kohler owns Kallista. Oh, and we have one designer we work for that uses almost nothing but Anne Sacks, another Kohler owned company.

bobdog

the inner plastic can be removed. you can also turn it 180 degrees to change rotation..they are "disposable" faucets.

smellslike$tome

I like anything that is of good quality and can't be price shopped by the homeowner. This removes pretty much any name brand commonly available to the ho. Wolverine would be great but I find them so hideous that it's difficult for me to sell them. Many times I have entered a home where the ho had Price Pfister or some other lav faucet from the box store sitting out waiting for me to install. Within a few minutes of bringing in my alternative offering and demonstrating the differences and letting the ho handle both faucets, we are re-packaging the HD/Blowes faucet for return and I'm installing my faucet.

I'd tell you who I'm using but it's working so well for me that I just can't give that one up just yet. The main thing is find something of good quality that can't be easily price shopped. I don't carry a single Delta, Moen, Price Pfister, Peerless, Kohler, or any other low end name brand faucet on my truck.

To make up for my faucet stinginess I'll offer up my toilet picks. Toto, Toto, Toto! Of course most of you probably already know that.

DUNBAR PLUMBING

I rarely sell faucets off the truck, other than those washerless 1/4 turn laundry tub faucets.

The other is the R10000 Delta shower faucet.



Got a problem with any faucet *WB for sure* when a customer of mine is forced to go back to the installer of the faucet, simply because no supply house will stock it.


I'll never do that to my customers, ever.

I should at least give them an opportunity to install commonly found products so I don't indirectly play the shell game with them.


I have two customers in that exact situation, they always get gouged again from the initial installer.

You certanly wouldn't want it done to you...