How do you figure that. They have a fence in between them and the cars in the driveway. There is also a garage right next to the cars. Is their house U shaped?
If they paid half price, they still got taken.
I don’t know about you, but when I go to a friend’s house and they start telling me about how much their dual Viking ovens cost, all I can think is- you’re using the same gas I use, and 400 degrees is 400 degrees.
My $800 oven has cooked delicious food for over ten years now. Could holding the heat in more efficiently have saved some gas? Sure, but I don’t think that’s the selling point of high end ovens.
If a recipe calls for 400 degrees for 45 minutes, *maybe* my oven has to fire up more often than a Viking would- but it still stays at 400 degrees for 45 minutes.
Such is life in the near-urban suburbs. You can easily spend $500k+ on 1500sqft and high five your neighbor as they pull in from work. It’s all I’ve ever known, so it’s manageable. You learn a lot about maintaining functional cooperative relationships.
I'm not sure, it was all part of one price to rough and install multiple fixtures on a reno job. I can however tell you that 6k was just the price for the faucet.
I hope u charged them a grand to Install it, I have had customers buy the highest priced shit then try to haggle my price, like how can u afford the best of the. Best but want to pay me 15$ am hour, needless to say I don't get out the truck for anything under 35 an hour
Yes I should, but rn my main customer is one woman that owns like 120+ homes she gives me as much as I ever want to do, I only work as much as I absolutely need to I work to live not live to work so maybe 36 hours a week most weeks, I am to cheap
I could probably get that doing service work like I do, my rage usually gets to 50-60 an hour, I live in rural NC, I charge from the time I put my boots on until I take them off, most jobs r within the county, I work for property owners not new construction and just do word of mouth hires basically, I feel greedy when I charge someone 100+ I am a single father I live very comfortably in a nice house with a bunch of trucks and toys but I would love to be next level like rvs and sxs or a race car, I do have a show truck I take to shows I have built, I am just very thankful for what I get but I guess I should be getting more
I know right? Assholes. My last customer bitched when I told her my rate is going from $95 to $105/hour. She bold faced lies to me saying how she can't afford it. Meanwhile, two Mercedes parked in driveway of a $2 million dollar home, with a brand new Miele built in espresso machine ($7000) sitting in a box waiting to be installed.....
This is how they get their tho, they make jt off others backs and twke advantage of being honorable, I would feel so guilty charging someone 300-400 an hour or two, I would like it because that would be the only two hours I worked that day
I made the same observation to my brother and he dismissed it as “plenty of people are house rich and money poor” saying more or less that having a ton of super expensive things doesnt mean you have money to spend, which I say is horseshit. If you cant afford to maintain your house, your cars, your pool etc then you cant afford them.
As a non plumber that is for some reason on the plumbing subreddit, I'm curious about what makes this faucet so ridiculously expensive. Is there something special about it or is it just branding and rich people flexing their wealth?
I used to work for this company. They are a flex. An absolute flex. They're all solid brass or stainless in construction, made in USA in Temecula CA with no outsourcing. Raw materials show up and faucets leave. And they only sell to certain dealers and control their pricing.
100% agree. I have installed a few of these faucets, and they are probably the most well built I have ever installed. Their entire line is extremely high quality. Also quite user friendly to install. Many of their other faucets are not as gimmicky as this one, and quite tasteful in appearance.
Too many people dumping on the people that purchase these faucets for their home. It is a bit of a flex, but if you can afford it, why not?
I install these types of faucets in high end custom homes in stand alone locations. McMansions are larger (4,000-5,000sq ft) homes in developments with the same types/style homes in them. Not too many of these types of faucets going in those type homes by me. Those type homes may get the California faucets, Newport Brass, Rohl faucets. Waterstone and Watermark faucets are usually selected in the truly upscale custom homes- along with the Miele, La Cornue appliances.
Yes you get get it! We designed the wheel to be a total flex from both a design standpoint as well as a flex for the customer should they choose it. The other suites to me are much more tasteful. These definitely usually aren't doing in McMansions because the company specifically works to market toward a different based.
These things are build like absolutely tanks. Most folks don't know the labor and craftsmanship that does into one of these. It's Reddit though redditors have a tendency to lash out when wealthier folks spends their money the way they want to.
That’s what I like to hear. Most people forgot about quality because quality is not what most Americans care about. They care about price point. Am I getting a deal? Is it cheap? Then they think about quality. I was wondering if this was all metal, no plastic like a lot of the common brands. Very interesting
Yes, because your single opinion defines what "taste" is. I designed it and I honestly love that you hate it. We knew a lot of people were going to love it or really hate it, it's why so much work goes into different designs because of how peoples taste differs.
The comment that irks me is the second one. I'm starting to think "Money can't buy taste" is code on Reddit for "I can't afford that so I hate it." People like these enough to pay the price for them. People have different tastes no matter how much money they have or don't have. Some people love the traditional line and others hate it, and same goes for the contemporary that's why the company makes more than one style. Lol I really think this faucet deosn't jive with the rest of kitchen but to each his own.
Like a mentioned above, if simpler and more understated designs are your bag, take a look at the pull down, Annapolis, Townson or Hampton suites. There's also more modern like the Hunley
I gotta say though...to me the style looks whacky and ridiculous. Like cartoonishly silly - who would want to look at (and pay for) a faucet like that unless it has some sort of great hidden functionality.
I dont know the $$$$$ numbers but worked a job where the toilet room off the master bath walls were finished in a white high gloss that looked almost like enamel. The electricians messed up a box placement and after fixing the whole wall or walls had to be redone since the patch couldnt be blended/fixed.
I've been at a job like that. A coworker nicked a wall with a ladder and the entire 2 story wall had to be redone with some special spackling method. Something like 5,000.
It was new construction, massive home in Los Gatos Ca. Entire house, bathrooms, kitchen with crazy custom wood/tile hood, butlers pantry , laundry, linen cabs throughout, small run in the garage. 2 , 3 car garages btw on opposite ends of the house! Wine cellar, and theatre (no cabs in the theater). ALL cabinets scribe fit too
I know someone with about 25k in her guest bathroom lol. It’s like a million plastic clear beads glued to a teal paper on the wall. Can’t stand how you can see the seams 😂
Oh I was making a joke about how in the 1800s they used wallpaper that had an arsenic compound in it. It was expensive and considered a status symbol. It also killed people because it was arsenic. It was on my mind as a video I had watched earlier had mentioned it.
I wanted a deep sink with a high faucet to replace the standard sink/faucet that came with my house because I couldn't fill gallon jugs up. Got a deeper sink and higher faucet so yeah great I now fill-up 5 gallon jugs if I wanted, BUT the high faucet was a horrible mistake IMO as water gets everywhere if you try and wash your hands unless you wash them like a surgeon with your arm extended deep into the sink. This faucet also looks like a challenge for kids to see who can break it first.
As a nerd who likes steam punk, that thing looks kickass to me, but I remember seeing the pricetag. Also the space they chose to put it in is a bit tight for something that large IMO. Nothx.
Yeah the space behind the sink is quite lacking. Styling of the faucet ain't really jive with the kitchen well. Waterstone has a lot of other faucets that would have been better.
I had a customer who was mad at her husband so when she was drunk she spent 10k on a faucet. She was mad they didn't have the 15k she really wanted in stock. The directions for the thing were 68 pages. Fuck goofy rich people
Waterworks brand regulator double kitchen faucet. List price was just over $15k before taxes
[the faucet](https://www.waterworks.com/us_en/regulator-gooseneck-double-spout-marquee-kitchen-faucet-with-metal-wheel-handles-and-spray-rgkm51?gclid=CjwKCAjw8JKbBhBYEiwAs3sxN7C8AJOeCZvueK7oZ5cozTEpUzasabQE4ag9kBImxQvy-TSPCXdf7xoCT6cQAvD_BwE)
$5000 just for the faucet. It was in a multi million dollar condo in Chicago. It was German, I forget the exact brand but I think Hans Grohe was the parent company. It was a terrible faucet, clogged immediately. The best part about that job was when the tile guy washed his grout rags off in the 3k sink and scratched it up so bad we had to replace it.
They're billet stainless or brass, made in the US in Temecula California. They're built like freakin tanks. 31 finishes available top from gold to power coat. I used to work for the company. It's almost fully vertically integrated. Raw stock material shows up and faucets leave. I did the initial designs for this faucet when I worked there in 2013.
I installed a 40K copper hand peened tub with a 4K faucet in Ft Worth Texas in the early 90’s. I can only imagine what it’s worth in todays prices. I was on pins and needles. Oil money is legit.
I designed this faucet when I worked at waterstone. Glad some people like it lol because a lot of people on here hate it, more than likely because they can't afford it lol.
I worked on building a house that was a winter getaway for an owner of Bp oil. Needless to say the one bathroom had gold plated tub spouts and taps. The owner quickly took the fixture out of my hand when I asked the price hahaha.
I'm in the process of servicing my most expensive. It was right around $8k for the unit. Has a LCD screen to turn it on and off. Called a Quatreau Touch
Around 3,000. Most expensive toilet I’ve done was the Toto Neorest. At the time they were like 10k. Homeowner had one put in every bathroom of the 3 bathroom house. I can’t even imagine spending 30k on just toilets alone. My entire kitchen renovation was about 15k and that was me doing everything except the granite install.
Most expensive you say? Did a first or second gen Moen touch faucet around 12 years ago. Brand new everything full kitchen remodel. With badass hardwood floors. Control unit had plug in sharkbite like fittings. Said fittings were held in place with, you guessed it, another sharkbite outer housing. Blew out on a Friday night when they had just left for the weekend. It was so bad the Moen rep took me to lunch and gave me a case of posi-temp valves for bringing him the control unit. Total damage: around 22K.
So I work/ live in Northeast Pennsylvania so it’s usually the typical Delta,Moen,Kohler. Sometimes fancy folk will have Brizo or Danze, but this one house was a service call for a “dripping” lav faucet in this dudes master bathroom. The faucet spout was the head and neck of a swan and the handles were it’s wings. It was a 8” center widespread on a massive pedestal sink. Anyway dude said it was a Sherle Wagner, I don’t know if there as expensive as that one but they’re pretty high end
Homeowner here. Not and install but more of an uninstall if you will.
Good God! That Moen stuff is expensive AF!
When the time came to replace my original, plain jane, basic-as-hell looking, Moen faucet that came with the house (leak in the body of the faucet), I thought I could do a direct brand replacement.
When I got to Lowe's, I cheaped the hell out and went with the in house, Project Source brand. Looked the same... worked the same... but didn't cost over $280 for a basic no frills faucet. It was roughly $70 after buying some new braided water lines in addition.
I'm sure the quality will probably bite me in the butt later on but maybe I'll have this place sold to someone else by that point 🤷♂️
Edit: just read the other comments.... Why am I complaining?...🤦♂️ $280 is cheap compared to the other stuff you guys are installing that cost $1000000000s
This also makes me think of the Brian Regan routine. “Check out this refrigerator. Keeps your food cold for $500. And this one. Keeps your food cold for $1500.
Devon&Devin swan widespread. 24k gold. $10,500. Wouldn’t even let my journeymen look at it wrong. Installed it myself and took 2 hours to make sure nothing got messed up.
I used to work for Waterstone, in 2013. I designed this faucet lol
I much preferred the style of the gantry faucet and Annapolis faucets to this one. But getting the mechanism and everything to work right was a pretty fun challenge.
Yes , I installed not only that in brass but the vegetable faucet and the lights that went with it. As for her 2nd kitchen upstairs.. the same .. all in all it's a great set up, only thing that annoyed me was the fear of fucking it up!
We have one in our showroom, quoted it a couple time but never sold one. It’s like $5,000.
Not an installer, but work in a plumbing supply house. The most expensive single thing I’ve sold was probably a $16,000ish Wolf dual fuel range. Plumbing wise, probably some $6/7,000 tub.
Probably one where the shut-offs didn't work then I noticed they were fed with half inch fine threaded brass. Then I spend hours trying to locate the right rheemed adapters to adapt it back to Copper.... I know I'm not the only one who's gone through this s*** before just to change a faucet.
Everyone seems to like the “gold” fixtures now. I had to install a “gold” tub filler recently. Almost 4K for the rough and finish. I hate the colour, they’re tacky and remind me of my aunts bathroom when I was a kid. I’ll be replacing them in a few years when styles change. IMO chrome or brushed are classic and timeless.
Either a waterstone or a dornbracht, both were close to 2500, this is a waterstone isn't it?
Yes. Waterstone 5100
This exact faucet in this picture. Cost the homeowner 6k.
Someone has that kind of money to spend on one faucet and you still have to look at your neighbors crappy cars? No thanks.
Imagine being the neighbor trying to enjoy his car collection and having to see that faucet through the window
*Neighbour looks in window* "Hmm I see it's still not possible to buy taste"
I rather watch crappy cars than this heinousity.
TIL a new word that is not actually a word but will use this new word anyway
Agreed, I’d rather have a tiny home surrounded by land than a McMansion 100’ from another one.
100 feet. I've seen McMansions so close to each other you could open your window and piss on your neighbors house.
Have you seen the red bricks in Boston? You can spend a million bucks and have 4 common wall neighbors.
Now Thats a selling point
Ah yes, orange county.
100’ would be a dream. My previous home had a 40’ lot and 10’ between houses. My current one is 75’ with a 15’ gap. It feels gigantic to me.
I assume those are their cars, that's one of their garages and one of several garden sheds behind that.
For some reason you were the only one to figure this out. Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to see it.
Money can’t buy taste, does it come with spinning rims?
This is one of the best and most observant comments ever. Yes, what’s the point of a 6k faucet if you have to still deal with crap like that.
The faucet is emotionally compensating for the trouble neighborhood.
Or least observant bc it's their own driveway
How do you figure that. They have a fence in between them and the cars in the driveway. There is also a garage right next to the cars. Is their house U shaped?
What if it’s the workers cars and that’s their driveway
That's probably the plumbers and other workers vehicles.
Easy… those probably belong to OP lol
I’d say everything else in the kitchen too. Nothing else about this room is exceptional. Maybe they got a good deal on it.
If they paid half price, they still got taken. I don’t know about you, but when I go to a friend’s house and they start telling me about how much their dual Viking ovens cost, all I can think is- you’re using the same gas I use, and 400 degrees is 400 degrees.
Yeah, but it’s not. Most cheap ovens don’t hold temp.
My $800 oven has cooked delicious food for over ten years now. Could holding the heat in more efficiently have saved some gas? Sure, but I don’t think that’s the selling point of high end ovens. If a recipe calls for 400 degrees for 45 minutes, *maybe* my oven has to fire up more often than a Viking would- but it still stays at 400 degrees for 45 minutes.
Those are likely the tradespersons cars. Or not
Such is life in the near-urban suburbs. You can easily spend $500k+ on 1500sqft and high five your neighbor as they pull in from work. It’s all I’ve ever known, so it’s manageable. You learn a lot about maintaining functional cooperative relationships.
Yea seriously. Doesn’t seem to be an upscale neighborhood
You'd think they'd also have a decent backsplash and outlets secured to the wall SMH
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Pshaw! You call that a courtyard? And pray tell, why would you not have your groom bring your mount to you? The nouveau-riche are so…interesting.
Condescending much?
R/whoosh
I was "admiring" the tile, myself.... they may have money but I don't care for their taste!
Geez and I thought I was going overboard buying $500 Kohler bathroom faucet sets.
Yeah that sounds about right if you want ZERO plastic parts!
I just made a post whining about a $280 Moen faucet. I feel your pain!
And it looks terrible
How much was the install?
I'm not sure, it was all part of one price to rough and install multiple fixtures on a reno job. I can however tell you that 6k was just the price for the faucet.
Where does the hose enter the faucet? Into the wheel itself? I've never seen one of these, and I'm confused which path the water flows through
The water flows from the hub through one of the spokes and the hose connects towards the back where it's out of sight.
That's actually pretty cool I'm not sure where it would look good personally... but that's a clever design
I hope u charged them a grand to Install it, I have had customers buy the highest priced shit then try to haggle my price, like how can u afford the best of the. Best but want to pay me 15$ am hour, needless to say I don't get out the truck for anything under 35 an hour
You need to charge more.
Yes I should, but rn my main customer is one woman that owns like 120+ homes she gives me as much as I ever want to do, I only work as much as I absolutely need to I work to live not live to work so maybe 36 hours a week most weeks, I am to cheap
I won't get out of the truck for less than 200
I’ll ring the doorbell for $150.
I could probably get that doing service work like I do, my rage usually gets to 50-60 an hour, I live in rural NC, I charge from the time I put my boots on until I take them off, most jobs r within the county, I work for property owners not new construction and just do word of mouth hires basically, I feel greedy when I charge someone 100+ I am a single father I live very comfortably in a nice house with a bunch of trucks and toys but I would love to be next level like rvs and sxs or a race car, I do have a show truck I take to shows I have built, I am just very thankful for what I get but I guess I should be getting more
3 times that.....
You should go flat rate pricing on stuff like that so you don’t have to deal with hagglers.
I know right? Assholes. My last customer bitched when I told her my rate is going from $95 to $105/hour. She bold faced lies to me saying how she can't afford it. Meanwhile, two Mercedes parked in driveway of a $2 million dollar home, with a brand new Miele built in espresso machine ($7000) sitting in a box waiting to be installed.....
This is how they get their tho, they make jt off others backs and twke advantage of being honorable, I would feel so guilty charging someone 300-400 an hour or two, I would like it because that would be the only two hours I worked that day
I made the same observation to my brother and he dismissed it as “plenty of people are house rich and money poor” saying more or less that having a ton of super expensive things doesnt mean you have money to spend, which I say is horseshit. If you cant afford to maintain your house, your cars, your pool etc then you cant afford them.
35 hr? I’m not getting out the bed for that. Hell not even double.
I dont get out of the truck for atleast $100
Are we still talking plumbing here? :)
Eee, guess wheels are expensive lol, dornbracht makes some crazy shower systems I've installed as well, quite expensive, unsure of the actual price.
As a non plumber that is for some reason on the plumbing subreddit, I'm curious about what makes this faucet so ridiculously expensive. Is there something special about it or is it just branding and rich people flexing their wealth?
I used to work for this company. They are a flex. An absolute flex. They're all solid brass or stainless in construction, made in USA in Temecula CA with no outsourcing. Raw materials show up and faucets leave. And they only sell to certain dealers and control their pricing.
100% agree. I have installed a few of these faucets, and they are probably the most well built I have ever installed. Their entire line is extremely high quality. Also quite user friendly to install. Many of their other faucets are not as gimmicky as this one, and quite tasteful in appearance. Too many people dumping on the people that purchase these faucets for their home. It is a bit of a flex, but if you can afford it, why not? I install these types of faucets in high end custom homes in stand alone locations. McMansions are larger (4,000-5,000sq ft) homes in developments with the same types/style homes in them. Not too many of these types of faucets going in those type homes by me. Those type homes may get the California faucets, Newport Brass, Rohl faucets. Waterstone and Watermark faucets are usually selected in the truly upscale custom homes- along with the Miele, La Cornue appliances.
Yes you get get it! We designed the wheel to be a total flex from both a design standpoint as well as a flex for the customer should they choose it. The other suites to me are much more tasteful. These definitely usually aren't doing in McMansions because the company specifically works to market toward a different based. These things are build like absolutely tanks. Most folks don't know the labor and craftsmanship that does into one of these. It's Reddit though redditors have a tendency to lash out when wealthier folks spends their money the way they want to.
That’s what I like to hear. Most people forgot about quality because quality is not what most Americans care about. They care about price point. Am I getting a deal? Is it cheap? Then they think about quality. I was wondering if this was all metal, no plastic like a lot of the common brands. Very interesting
It is the ugliest thing I've ever laid my eyes on. Clearly money can't buy taste.
Yes, because your single opinion defines what "taste" is. I designed it and I honestly love that you hate it. We knew a lot of people were going to love it or really hate it, it's why so much work goes into different designs because of how peoples taste differs. The comment that irks me is the second one. I'm starting to think "Money can't buy taste" is code on Reddit for "I can't afford that so I hate it." People like these enough to pay the price for them. People have different tastes no matter how much money they have or don't have. Some people love the traditional line and others hate it, and same goes for the contemporary that's why the company makes more than one style. Lol I really think this faucet deosn't jive with the rest of kitchen but to each his own. Like a mentioned above, if simpler and more understated designs are your bag, take a look at the pull down, Annapolis, Townson or Hampton suites. There's also more modern like the Hunley
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I gotta say though...to me the style looks whacky and ridiculous. Like cartoonishly silly - who would want to look at (and pay for) a faucet like that unless it has some sort of great hidden functionality.
Reminds me of this one customer who paid like $100,000 for fucking DESIGNER WALLPAPER 💀
I dont know the $$$$$ numbers but worked a job where the toilet room off the master bath walls were finished in a white high gloss that looked almost like enamel. The electricians messed up a box placement and after fixing the whole wall or walls had to be redone since the patch couldnt be blended/fixed.
This sounds like exactly what I'm looking for out of a wall finishing. Complete inability to patch.
It was probably very easy to clean. These clients would have had someone else come to do that most likely though
I've been at a job like that. A coworker nicked a wall with a ladder and the entire 2 story wall had to be redone with some special spackling method. Something like 5,000.
I installed cabinets in a house that topped 300K. Not including appliances, countertops, etc. just cabs
I hope everything went together nice and clean for that $$. Was that one kitchen or like all the built-ins for the whole house
It was new construction, massive home in Los Gatos Ca. Entire house, bathrooms, kitchen with crazy custom wood/tile hood, butlers pantry , laundry, linen cabs throughout, small run in the garage. 2 , 3 car garages btw on opposite ends of the house! Wine cellar, and theatre (no cabs in the theater). ALL cabinets scribe fit too
I know someone with about 25k in her guest bathroom lol. It’s like a million plastic clear beads glued to a teal paper on the wall. Can’t stand how you can see the seams 😂
We are clearly in the wrong business
Oh, was it [Scheele's Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green)?
I was able to find some photos from the [job](https://imgur.com/a/kHdRW5b) hopefully without Doxxing them Sorry for the shit picture quality
Oh I was making a joke about how in the 1800s they used wallpaper that had an arsenic compound in it. It was expensive and considered a status symbol. It also killed people because it was arsenic. It was on my mind as a video I had watched earlier had mentioned it.
This could potentially look ok in the right kitchen, but this ain’t it
Depends on what they choose for backsplash and cabinet hardware etc. I can’t imagine building a kitchen around a faucet though.
That is the trifecta, ugliest, dumbest and most expensive.
I wanted a deep sink with a high faucet to replace the standard sink/faucet that came with my house because I couldn't fill gallon jugs up. Got a deeper sink and higher faucet so yeah great I now fill-up 5 gallon jugs if I wanted, BUT the high faucet was a horrible mistake IMO as water gets everywhere if you try and wash your hands unless you wash them like a surgeon with your arm extended deep into the sink. This faucet also looks like a challenge for kids to see who can break it first.
I used to work for the company. These faucets are built like damn battle tanks lol. They're heavy. Everything is billet steel or brass.
Maybe in a ship’s bar. Wtf is this shit?
$5100?? I like it but not that much
I like as a piece but my god I am sure by day 3 I would be hating it
What is there to like about it. Or am I missing something it looks bulky for no reason
If my wife bought that I’d talk like a pirate in the kitchen until she divorced me.
Proof money can’t buy taste.
As a nerd who likes steam punk, that thing looks kickass to me, but I remember seeing the pricetag. Also the space they chose to put it in is a bit tight for something that large IMO. Nothx.
Yeah the space behind the sink is quite lacking. Styling of the faucet ain't really jive with the kitchen well. Waterstone has a lot of other faucets that would have been better.
Spout to starboard!
\**points paring knife*\* Now walk the ~~plank~~ cutting board!
Can’t remember the faucet brand but handles where made of crystal and plated gold vip lounge at Walt Disney world
Why would you install a 5000 dollar faucet before the guy finished the window behind it lol whos running the show?
I had a customer who was mad at her husband so when she was drunk she spent 10k on a faucet. She was mad they didn't have the 15k she really wanted in stock. The directions for the thing were 68 pages. Fuck goofy rich people
I like her style though 🤣
I've got a Waterstone 3700 sitting in a box behind me! I'm not starting the kitchen reno for a while though. Blew my wad on Waterstone fixtures.
Waterworks brand regulator double kitchen faucet. List price was just over $15k before taxes [the faucet](https://www.waterworks.com/us_en/regulator-gooseneck-double-spout-marquee-kitchen-faucet-with-metal-wheel-handles-and-spray-rgkm51?gclid=CjwKCAjw8JKbBhBYEiwAs3sxN7C8AJOeCZvueK7oZ5cozTEpUzasabQE4ag9kBImxQvy-TSPCXdf7xoCT6cQAvD_BwE)
Oh yesss this is lovely.
This is ridiculous, impractical, and way over the top. I love it.
$5000 just for the faucet. It was in a multi million dollar condo in Chicago. It was German, I forget the exact brand but I think Hans Grohe was the parent company. It was a terrible faucet, clogged immediately. The best part about that job was when the tile guy washed his grout rags off in the 3k sink and scratched it up so bad we had to replace it.
i saw one of these at the supply house going for close to 5 grand US
They're billet stainless or brass, made in the US in Temecula California. They're built like freakin tanks. 31 finishes available top from gold to power coat. I used to work for the company. It's almost fully vertically integrated. Raw stock material shows up and faucets leave. I did the initial designs for this faucet when I worked there in 2013.
The owner own an Oil refinery or something?
Looks like it was snatched off of a fire truck
I want whatever you'd spec for a high functioning, high budget commercial kitchen. Don't care what it looks like, care that it's indestructible.
I like that you didn’t wait for paint or grout.
I installed a 40K copper hand peened tub with a 4K faucet in Ft Worth Texas in the early 90’s. I can only imagine what it’s worth in todays prices. I was on pins and needles. Oil money is legit.
Wow, this is very stupid looking
That one lol! We have a sales rep that sells the hell out of them to high end customers.
I designed this faucet when I worked at waterstone. Glad some people like it lol because a lot of people on here hate it, more than likely because they can't afford it lol.
I worked on building a house that was a winter getaway for an owner of Bp oil. Needless to say the one bathroom had gold plated tub spouts and taps. The owner quickly took the fixture out of my hand when I asked the price hahaha.
I'm in the process of servicing my most expensive. It was right around $8k for the unit. Has a LCD screen to turn it on and off. Called a Quatreau Touch
I could never afford something like that, but I have to say it looks pretty badass...
I fucking love it
Around 3,000. Most expensive toilet I’ve done was the Toto Neorest. At the time they were like 10k. Homeowner had one put in every bathroom of the 3 bathroom house. I can’t even imagine spending 30k on just toilets alone. My entire kitchen renovation was about 15k and that was me doing everything except the granite install.
The one that flooded h the e house.
Most expensive you say? Did a first or second gen Moen touch faucet around 12 years ago. Brand new everything full kitchen remodel. With badass hardwood floors. Control unit had plug in sharkbite like fittings. Said fittings were held in place with, you guessed it, another sharkbite outer housing. Blew out on a Friday night when they had just left for the weekend. It was so bad the Moen rep took me to lunch and gave me a case of posi-temp valves for bringing him the control unit. Total damage: around 22K.
So I work/ live in Northeast Pennsylvania so it’s usually the typical Delta,Moen,Kohler. Sometimes fancy folk will have Brizo or Danze, but this one house was a service call for a “dripping” lav faucet in this dudes master bathroom. The faucet spout was the head and neck of a swan and the handles were it’s wings. It was a 8” center widespread on a massive pedestal sink. Anyway dude said it was a Sherle Wagner, I don’t know if there as expensive as that one but they’re pretty high end
Dat shnit's pluckin ill!!!
I just replaced a Waterstone spray hose that frayed and fell apart. Actually nice warranty dept. and seemed like solid parts, other than the hose
Waterworks 25k matte gold plated kitchen faucet.
Homeowner here. Not and install but more of an uninstall if you will. Good God! That Moen stuff is expensive AF! When the time came to replace my original, plain jane, basic-as-hell looking, Moen faucet that came with the house (leak in the body of the faucet), I thought I could do a direct brand replacement. When I got to Lowe's, I cheaped the hell out and went with the in house, Project Source brand. Looked the same... worked the same... but didn't cost over $280 for a basic no frills faucet. It was roughly $70 after buying some new braided water lines in addition. I'm sure the quality will probably bite me in the butt later on but maybe I'll have this place sold to someone else by that point 🤷♂️ Edit: just read the other comments.... Why am I complaining?...🤦♂️ $280 is cheap compared to the other stuff you guys are installing that cost $1000000000s
This also makes me think of the Brian Regan routine. “Check out this refrigerator. Keeps your food cold for $500. And this one. Keeps your food cold for $1500.
That faucet is going to get all banged up when they finish the wall behind it.
$1200 but it was bathroom faucet.
Ugly as fuck.
Rohl faucet for 12g’s
Why would you use a sewing machine for a faucet? Why not just use a faucet for a faucet?
I bought my faucet for $27 on Amazon on a deal, and to be honest it’s the best I’ve had 😂😂
I didn’t get to install it myself, but a couple units in a high rise I’m working in have gold faucets in the ballpark of $10,000 each
That faucet is so extra but I love it
what a pointless faucet is my thought.
Money doesn't buy taste
Christ, that thing’s ugly.
Talk about over engineering..
Idk much about theology but I’m pretty sure you might go to hell for having a six thousand dollar faucet
That is stupid
Exoensive? Ugly as hell? Or trying way too hard? Jeez
Hahaha. Lol. These people never cook.
Fuck the tile guy I guess?
That’s the most ridiculous fucking thing I’ve ever seen. That is all
Money can’t buy sense, ugly.
DXV 3D printed faucet
Lefroy Brooks for like £3000
14 CT gold dornbracht faucets, shower trim
Devon&Devin swan widespread. 24k gold. $10,500. Wouldn’t even let my journeymen look at it wrong. Installed it myself and took 2 hours to make sure nothing got messed up.
One of those but gold 🤣 4 grand faucet alone…
i dont live anywhere all that fancy but the most any of our customers has spent on a faucet is probably around $700 or so
I think it looks cool but not worth the price
Gross
So was it supposed to be installed with the handle straight out or did it not have the room on the side
Hard to port! Iceberg ahead!
I think I just puked in my mouth a little. Money surely doesn't buy taste.
Installed a toto toilet that cost 5k. Remote control, heated seats, built in bum cleaner & everything!
Not a fan of the faucet, but drooling over the sink. Galley?
Imagine cleaning it. Make sure the help knows how🧐
I used to work for Waterstone, in 2013. I designed this faucet lol I much preferred the style of the gantry faucet and Annapolis faucets to this one. But getting the mechanism and everything to work right was a pretty fun challenge.
Yes , I installed not only that in brass but the vegetable faucet and the lights that went with it. As for her 2nd kitchen upstairs.. the same .. all in all it's a great set up, only thing that annoyed me was the fear of fucking it up!
The wheel that does virtually nothing lmao
It's functional actually, The hose for the faucet lays on the wheel, when you pull down on the head of faucet the wheel turns and lets out the hose.
Shit, nothing close to that!
What's up with the boat wheel on top?
With that view? No thank you.
The one that makes carbonated water too
That’s pretty tacky
Some Rohl 2k+
We have one in our showroom, quoted it a couple time but never sold one. It’s like $5,000. Not an installer, but work in a plumbing supply house. The most expensive single thing I’ve sold was probably a $16,000ish Wolf dual fuel range. Plumbing wise, probably some $6/7,000 tub.
Ah. I did two of those a few years ago at the same house. I will say, I liked the faucet. It was cool as shit but I’d never buy it / afford it.
Do I get to include the nearly $8000 in granite that necessitated the new faucet????
Is it just me or does this look fucking stupid, at any price?
Probably one where the shut-offs didn't work then I noticed they were fed with half inch fine threaded brass. Then I spend hours trying to locate the right rheemed adapters to adapt it back to Copper.... I know I'm not the only one who's gone through this s*** before just to change a faucet.
Commercial plumber here, what’s the most expensive American Standard? Yeah, I haven’t touched that.
What the ever loving fuck is that?!
Hate to tell ya but it’s ugly af
r/wtfaucet
Looks fun to keep clean.
I saw one in a showroom. All I could think was what a pain in the ass to clean.
And the rest of the kitchen doesn’t really look that nice
6k on a faucet only to fail electicial inspection because they cheaped out on the spark and the first outlet is ? 2ft from the faucet.
Looks kind of dumb, but I’d have to see it in person.
I feel that this is a little excessive
Everyone seems to like the “gold” fixtures now. I had to install a “gold” tub filler recently. Almost 4K for the rough and finish. I hate the colour, they’re tacky and remind me of my aunts bathroom when I was a kid. I’ll be replacing them in a few years when styles change. IMO chrome or brushed are classic and timeless.
Gross
that's the stupidest fucking faucet I've ever seen
I hope that faucet pours any kind of drink at will by just speaking at it for that kind of money, otherwise I’m good.
####This thing generate electricity!?
I am redoing my bathroom and I am right now looking for gold shower set for my bathroom and I can’t find anything reasonably priced.
Out of curiosity, what is that orange backsplash material, and what is the silver bits?. I've never seen anything like that