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Originally Posted by BrianL99
You can look at a faucet at HD that's $199 and see what looks like the exact same one for $299 at a kitchen store. Same with appliances. They look identical, but they're not.
When I was building homes, that was a constant point of contention. People would insist on some kitchen appliance or hardware that HD/Lowe's had, at low price ... we refused to put them in.
Funny how you always seem to get what you paid for, good or bad.
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Originally Posted by merrymini
I was told by a plumber that the faucets are different internally and that the cheaper versions use plastic instead of metal.
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That's exactly the case. When we were building custom homes, the wives were great for shopping for faucets at Home Depot and then complaining, we want to charge her $500 for the faucet she could get from HD for $199. As your Plumber correctly pointed out, the HD ones had plastic, everywhere they could get away with it. Any Plumber who cares about his reputation, would never put plastic faucets in a new home.
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