Delta revisits a classic
In the 1950s, the Delta Faucet Company introduced the first single-handle kitchen faucet. Back then, it was called simply The Delta Faucet. For a long time, this is what a kitchen faucet looked like. Times changed and tastes changed and Delta introduced a wide collection of other styles. They remained true to their roots and the original, single-handle Delta faucet never went out of production.
I grew up in a rambling old house in rural Pennsylvania. The kitchen in that residence have been up to date in some unspecified time in the future in the Fifties and after I arrived in the Sixties, that same kitchen was still feeding our family and serving as our primary accumulating spot. I'm fortunate to have a whole lot of pictures from those years and when I look again via the ones old black and whites a whole lot of them had been taken in that old kitchen. From the background of some of those pics, I can see that we had a Delta unmarried-take care of tap. We have been hardly particular in our tap desire. The Delta single-handle brought tap water to a generation.
Well, rather than retiring the Delta single-handle, it's now called The Classic and Delta just announced The Classic's first redesign in its more than 50-year history.
Here's what The Classic gave the look of inside the closing version 12 months.
That kitchen tap has been in greater apartments where I've lived over the years than I can remember. And why now not? It labored, it lasted a long time and it turned into an less expensive tap.
Here's what it looks like now.
Wow. The suggested retail price on that faucet is $133.50 but I found it for less than $90 on a number of plumbing websites. Double wow. You know, if you showed me that faucet and told me that it cost $400, I'd probably say something like, "Hey, that has really nice lines..." I'm telling you, that price point is proof that low budgets don't have to mean ugly outcomes. That Classic is an attractive fixture for any price point. What makes it beyond attractive is that The Classic is a value proposition all around. Check out the entire Classic collection on Delta's website .
Delta's update of The Classic isn't purely cosmetic, the lion's share of the development of this faucet is inside, where you can't see it. Delta threw out everything about how a faucet is supposed to work and re-imagined it from the ground up. The original single-handle had a then-revolutionary ball valve inside of it. It was an industry first that became an industry standard.
Well, Delta's making industry records again with the development of their Diamond? Seal Technology. The Diamond? Seal valve is leak proof, lead-unfastened and could remaining ten times longer than the valve it is changing. Here's a video that explains Diamond? Seal Technology.
All in all it's a real winner and it's emblematic of the incredible things Delta Faucet has been up to in the last few years. Seriously, spend a little time on their website and see what Delta can do . Oh and fans of mid-century nostalgia will be happy to know that the ball handle is still available.
