Pull-Down & Pull-Out Kitchen Faucets

84 kitchen faucets — 64 pull-down and 20 pull-out — from Moen (23), Delta (14), Gerber (14), Grohe (11), Hansgrohe (8), Brizo, Matco-Norca, Franke, Peerless, American Standard, Elkay and Rohl. All single handle, 1.5 or 1.75 gpm, in polished chrome, stainless, matte black, oil rubbed bronze, champagne bronze, brushed gold and graphite.

Pull-down or pull-out is decided by the sink and the wall behind it, not by the faucet. A pull-down has a tall arc and the sprayer comes straight down into the bowl — it wants headroom, and it is the right answer over a deep single-bowl sink. A pull-out has a lower spout and the sprayer comes toward you, which is what works under a window, beneath a low upper cabinet, or on a shallow or double-bowl sink where a high arc would just splash. The pull-out also reaches further onto the counter, which matters if you fill pots off the sink rather than in it. Measure the clearance from the deck to whatever is above it before choosing the arc.

The retraction system is the part that fails, and every brand solves it differently. Moen's Reflex and Gerber's SnapBack both use a counterweight on the hose to pull the sprayer back and hold it docked; Moen's Power Clean and Power Boost are spray-force features, not docking ones. When a sprayer sags out of the spout or will not seat, the cause is almost always under the sink and not in the head: the counterweight has slid along the hose, or the hose is snagged on a shutoff, a disposal or the trap. Reseat the weight at the manufacturer's spacing and clear the hose path before replacing anything.

A single-handle faucet needs one hole, and most sinks are drilled for three. That gap is what the deck plate covers, and it is the part people leave off the order and then discover on installation day. Some faucets here ship with one — Gerber's G0040164 Viper names it in the box — and for the rest it is a separate line item. Check the sink's hole count and spacing before ordering, because a three-hole sink with a one-hole faucet and no deck plate cannot be finished.

Flow is capped by law: the federal maximum for a kitchen faucet is 2.2 gpm, and several states set a lower limit. Nothing here exceeds 1.75 gpm and the Grohe Concetto and several Delta and American Standard models run 1.5, so the stock clears the stricter state caps as well as the federal one.

Five brands, five names for the same silver finish. Moen calls it Spot Resist Stainless, Delta calls it Arctic Stainless, Grohe calls it SuperSteel, Hansgrohe calls it Stainless Steel Optic and Franke calls it Stainless Steel. They photograph almost identically and they do not match each other across a kitchen. If the sink, the faucet and the disposal air switch come from three brands, pick the finish family once and accept that only one of them will be exact.

Spray patterns run from a single stream to dual and triple spray, and spout reach from a 14" prep faucet to a 17.5" high-arc. Bar and prep sinks have their own shorter line in pull-out prep and bar faucets; replacement sprayers and hoses are in faucet parts.

Kitchen faucets sit alongside undermount kitchen sinks, drop-in kitchen sinks, basket strainers and disposals in kitchen, and with the rest of the faucets.