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I've wondered if we should have gotten the Euro, but with our wide sink, I sometimes hit the edge of the plate rather than the center, so I'm not sure I'd be completely happy with the lever either. And sometimes one person is in front of the plate, say scrubbing a dish with water off, and the other person needs to wash hands, and the width of the plate makes it easier for the 2nd person to sidle up to wash hands without playing too much footsie.

I'm glad we have it and it is very convenient (we put one on our bath sink as well), but the lock on/off is not quite as easy to use as I'd hoped.

It is absolutely NOT intrusive at all. In fact, when MichelleDT asked about the visibility a couple of months ago, I had to get down on my hands and knees to even see the control. Little DS probably couldn't reach the faucet control lever to turn the water on for hand washing, but easily uses the foot lever instead. He loves to use it as a magic trick for guests new to the house. So cute!

You can't see it at all in this shot.

I bought mine from Conserv-a-store. If you have enough lead time, sign up for their email list. Every so often they send a 10% coupon code for any of their products. Unfortunately, they aren't cheap so every little bit helps.

We are a shoes-off household so all my Tapmaster operating is in stocking, or occasionally bare, feet. Very easy. I was suprised at how much pressure I needed to use to turn the lever to the locked position when it was first installed. It seems to have loosened up over time so even locking/unlocking is easy now.

Knowing the Tapmaster would function better for me on my prep sink, I installed it there. I do find myself kicking at the cleanup sink base with my hands under the faucet wondering why the he!! the water isn't flowing. I think eventually I'll get one for that sink also. Maybe with the next coupon code?

I would absolutely purchase my Tapmaster again if I was doing the kitchen over. I use it every single day, dozens of times a day. In fact, I rarely use the faucet lever!

Very easy to use (takes maybe 1 or 2 days to have it down pat) in both shoes and socks. If someone is staying with us for a few days and they are having trouble adjusting to it we just lock it in the "on" position. This is usually with much older relatives. When I go to other peoples houses I'm always kicking their sink and wondering why the faucet doesn't work. We bought ours from Conservastore. I either called them or Tapmaster directly and discussed the different options. The person on the phone was very helpful in guiding me to the one I wanted.

And thanks for pointing me to Conservastore - I haven't found that site yet and they're $40.00 less from there. I'm going to try to hold out for a coupon - thanks for that info, Breezygirl, I have about 4 weeks to make the purchase.

I got the basic one, sounds like Claybabe's. SHoes, barefoot, whatever. It always worked just fine unless there was a crayon stuck under it. Had it on main (and only) sink and need to get off my rear and get it again since I moved.

I'd always planned to put foot pedals on the kitchen sinks - you know, like they have in hospitals and commercial kitchens? Then here on GW I found out about Tapmasters, which say they can work with any faucet (the pedals apparently need special faucets.) I looked at the Tapmasters website but I'm confused about how they work. Do you need to turn the faucet *handles* to the on position and then leave them/it there so that the tapmaster will work? Or can you use either the handles or the tapmaster? If the handles are in the "off" position, will the tapmaster still turn on the water?

Please enlighten me! Thanks!

If you want to disengage the Tapmaster, push the foot pedal to the locked position (all the way to either the right or to the left) and use the faucet handle as you would a regular faucet. No need to use the foot.

To reengage the Tapmaster, unlock the foot pedal by pushing it back to the middle/down pointing position.

If the faucet handle is off, the Tapmaster will not turn on the water.

Hope that helps! I love mine.

Burntfingers

The one with the hot and cold pedals looks like driving a stick shift to me - along with whatever I'm doing at the sink, it's going to take advanced brain activity to manage that. Kudos to kateskouros!

I'm excited about this one - just going to order and install and see what hubby's reaction is! My girls (8 and 10 yrs old) are going to FLIP OUT!

hee, hee!

One other thing about the Euro model I should have mentioned earlier. Thanks to advice from another member (wish I could remember who), I installed the foot lever to the right of center. If you square up to the sink, your feet fall on either side of center. Since I'm a righty, I put it about halfway between center and the far right edge of my small prep sink cab. My right foot lines up perfectly for easy use. Just another small reason I'm forever thankful for this forum! My OCD self would have gotten out the tape measure to install the lever dead center otherwise!

Thanks!

SO True! I wish I had read that advice before we installed ours. Ours is perfectly centered. As a result, when I stand at the sink my body is not centered wit the sink. My torso is more to the left of the sink so that my right foot can line up with the tapmaster. I've gotten used to it.

Monica--Wow. Five years! I'm seriously contemplating one in our new master bath also. I feel like an idiot standing at the cleanup sink or the bathroom sink with my hands under the faucet kicking my foot around waiting for the water to go on. Even little DS did that the other day. We had a good laugh.

We have the Euro model at the main faucet, and we love it. I have the faucet set to always generate a proper amount of warm water for hand and dish washing and will go on days without touching it again. But when I cook, I do find myself needing cold water only or hot water only from time to time, and that's when my hot/cold drinking water faucet (at the same sink) comes handy. For anyone buying a Tapmaster, it's something to think about.

We have strong water pressure. Before the remodel (and installing Tapmaster), I used to have to fidget with the faucet control everytime I use it in order to get the temperature right and the flow rate right for my washing. Once I turn it off, it's all over again next time I use it. With the Tapmaster, no more fidgeting. I love it! That's why I really like having the instant hot and filtered cold water from a separate faucet so I can always get what I want without messing up my main faucet setting. Hope that clarifies.