I never even considered the differences. I had a rough plumber do his work, then fired him. Then I bought a Tapmaster and had my cabs installed. I mentioned the Tapmaster to my cab maker at install and he drilled a little hole in the toe kick or somewhere thereabouts. After that, I hired a new plumber for the finish work and that was that. It's really very simple. It's not "gadgety" to me at all. Using it is simple and convenient. If you're handy at all, installing it after your kitchen is done when funds are a little more liquid should be easy to do.

I LOVE mine!

Great-thanks Breezy! My DH is very handy so I know he could do the install, I just wasn't sure if there was a difference.

Now I just need to convince DH to get it in the first place. We can wait until after the reno and then maybe I'll ask for it as a Christmas present! :)

Ask for your Xmas present now. I just think that if you *are* going to get it, might as well get it now and start enjoying it.

See, you'll need a hole in the toekick for the pedal mechanism and then a hole in the back of the cabinet for the cable that runs from the toekick to your water stubs. We installed our Tapmaster when we installed the sink cabinet because it was the easiest and cleanest if you do it then. We took the front panel of the toekick box off (well, actually, it came off after we drilled two holes at the two ends for the E-Z Levels), and it was so much easier to be able to thread the cable through the back hole with full access to the bottom. It also allowed us to vacuum the bottom before reattaching the front. Also, the back hole is almost the exact size as the cable, thus very small and discrete, because we didn't have to fish for it.