Recommendations for a pull out spray kitchen tap

[Rosarosae]

If you have one, are you happy with it, and would you recommend your own?

I'd recommend trying it in a showroom. Mine makes a noise when being pulled out that to me is like fingernails on a blackboard.

They are good for rinsing the sink. However I have a sink that looks like this (I didn't choose it, so am not sure of the style name)
www.franke.com/content/kitchensystems/uk/en/home/products/byfinish/sinks/stainless_steel/planar.html
See those abrupt right angles rather than slightly rounded inside where the sides meet the bottom of the sink? I prefer one with a rounded shape. The right angled style seems not to drain as well, and consequently the sink needs to be cleaned more. You know how the bit around the plughole area can have retained drips, and consequently a build up of something brownish? I get that all around the inside bottom edges of the sink. And the spray doesn't work for that, either the sink edges must be dried after each use or the brown stuff that builds up must be wiped away.

there is currently a fashion for square-shaped taps with sharp corners. I don't know why, they are harder to clean, you are more likely to knock things on the corners, and the chrome wears away faster in sharp edges. So no particular recommendation, but it's not a fashion I am keen on. Nothing will look less unfashionable in a year or two.

If you get a tap with a joystick, or a single knob or lever that moves in several directions, it will have ceramic disks that will be in a complex arrangement. It will soon wear out and drip, and replacement will be expensive and difficult, or impossible.

We've had a Franke pull out spray tap for ten years now and it's been fantastic. We've ordered a new kitchen and the tap is being replaced with another Franke spray tap. I cannot recommend them enough.
We've also got a Franke fragranite sink of the rounded kind inside.mipmop makes a really valid point about the internal sink shape.

And I have the square-shaped taps that PigletJohn mentioned. Not in the kitchen, but in toilet rooms. I dislike the look of them anyway but yes, they constantly have water marks on the upper flat surface. Water does not run off and they need to be constantly wiped. I didn't realise the chrome would fail but am happy to hear that as it'll be a reason to replace them.

Sorry to derail, but PigletJohn can I check what you mean by joystick? Mine has a single lever above the mixer tap outlet. The lever can be lifted and lowered to adjust flow, and simultaneously moved left or right for temperature. It's that the type that will fail?

Well I've only had mine a year and I do love it.

It is this one and cost £158. I use the spray thing all the time.

mipmop

yes, that's a joystick.

I hope you will be very happy with yours, but it is a fundamentally complex design. It can especially be tiresome if it runs mains-pressure cold and tank-fed hot (with a cold tank in the loft). The ones with two knobs or levers are less fashionable, but easier to maintain.

PigletJohn the joystick taps were here when I moved in, and I have the problematic hot / cold feeds that you describe. I prefer the look of mixer taps with two knobs so am happy to know that's the better option.

OP sorry for going off at a tangent, but it's bumped your thread.

if you ever get the cold tank overflow dripping, first of all in the early mornings, even when the ballcock is not worn out, it may be an internal leak in your joystick tap.

(this problem does not occur with combis or Megaflos because the hot and cold pressures are equally high)

We went for a pull-out spray kitchen tap too. Ours is from Blanco, this one. I love the simple design and so far we have not hadany problems with it:

I have had them for years and years (I lived in the US) but don't find them useful at all. I had my kitchen redone recently and didn't bother having one again.
I just didn't use them, I'm not sure why but I found I just used the tap as normal.

If you have a big sink in a utility room I might have one in there although I didn't bother

PigletJohn. I thought of you today not in a weird creepy way though I replenished the air gap in my megaflow and I thought, if I got stuck, I could just ask you. Luckily it was easy enough. It just made me smile that instead of thinking of my DH or my Dad I thought of a 'random guy off the internet'

(DH is great but doesn't do any DIY)