What are the classifications of faucets?
Faucet is the popular title of water valve, used to control the size of the water flow switch, water saving effect. Faucet update speed is very fast, from the development of old cast iron technology to electroplating knob type, and developed to stainless steel single temperature single control faucet, stainless steel double temperature double control faucet, kitchen semi-automatic faucet. Now, faucet of more and more consumer choose and buy, can wait for many aspects from material qualitative, function, modelling to consider integratedly.
1. Will cent by material, can be divided into SUS304 stainless steel, cast iron, plastic, brass, zinc alloy material faucet, polymer composite material faucet and other categories.
2. Will divide by the function, can divide for faucet of cistern of face basin, bath crock, shower, kitchen and electric heating faucet (porcelain can electric heating faucet), as the rise of living standard, the faucet that can heat quickly (porcelain can electric heating faucet) more and more get the welcome of consumer, expect to become the new leading role that leads faucet revolution.
3. Will divide by the structure, can divide again for a few kinds of faucet such as single couplet type, double couplet type and 3 couplet type. In addition, there are single handle and double handle points. Single type can be connected with cold water pipe or hot water pipe; Double type can be cold and hot at the same time two pipes, mostly used for bathroom basin and hot water supply kitchen basin faucet; Besides receiving cold and hot water two pipes, triple type can also receive shower nozzle, mainly used at the faucet of bath crock. The single-handle faucet uses one handle to adjust the temperature of hot and cold water, while the double-handle faucet adjusts the temperature of cold water and hot water respectively.
4. It can be divided into spiral type, spanner type, lifting type and induction type. When the screw handle is opened, it must be turned many times; Wrench handle generally only need to rotate 90 degrees; Lifting lifting handle only need to lift the water; Induction type faucet wants the handle to reach faucet only below, can give water automatically. There is also a delayed turn-off faucet, in which the water runs for a few seconds after the switch is turned off, so that the dirt on your hands can be flushed again.
5. According to the spool, can be divided into rubber spool (slow open spool), ceramic spool (fast open spool) and stainless steel spool. The most critical factor affecting faucet quality is the spool. The faucet that uses rubber core is the cast iron faucet that spiral type opens more, had been eliminated basically; Ceramic spool faucet is in recent years, good quality, more common; Stainless steel spool is more suitable for poor water quality areas.