Watts 116011 Standard Faucet with Air Gap Black Review

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(More customer reviews)This is *almost* identical to the chrome faucet which Watts includes with the WP-5 reverse osmosis kit. Hold the lever down to dispense water, or snap it into an up position to have it stay on.

Quite a bit of noise can be heard through the air gap hole while the RO tank is filling. It sounds similar to someone a few houses down spraying water from a hose into a small pond.

This faucet works well, except for one important installation caveat. Unlike the chrome faucet included with the current version of the Watts WP-5, this replacement does not include a flow restrictor. And, the flow restrictor included with the WP-5's chrome faucet doesn't fit into the red waste tube of this black faucet -- the red tube's inner diameter is too small, even though its outer diameter matches the red tube from the chrome faucet (1/4").

I found out the hard way that the flow restrictor is needed to reduce the flow of waste water from the membrane. Without it, water will go gushing down your drain via the black waste tube on this faucet -- but a good bit of water will also continuously spurt out the air gap hole (onto your counter and hopefully not far from your sink).

So, if you have a current model WP-5 which includes the newer chrome faucet that matches this one, you will need to need to cut off a length of the red tubing from the chrome faucet. Then, insert the flow restrictor (a red, plastic, spiral shaped piece) into that red tubing. Then, union it to the black faucet's red tubing using a 1/4" Watts Quick Connect -- you can get this part at the big home improvement store. Then you are good to go ahead and connect the red tubing to the manifold's drain port.

Final note: the WP-5 installation manual is decent, but has a few errors and and a few items that are out of date. This flow restrictor, for instance, was apparently built in to the manifold assembly before. With my unit, however, it was in a special baggie inside the chrome faucet box, with an attached page containing installation instructions for that part. Apparently, Watts changed the parts and install procedures, but didn't fully document it and didn't update the replacement faucets to include the required tubing inner diameter and flow restrictor part.

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