I need some advice on kitchen sink type faucets.
24 years ago when we moved in to our house the kitchen sink faucet was a joke. I strongly suspect the previous owners had some high end faucet in the kitchen, and they went to the Wal Mart discount bin and bought the cheapest likely returned faucet to put in place of their good one. It is a crappy faucet, and my wife wanted it gone ASAP. It got moved to the laundry room which had a really short faucet bathroom style, builders grade faucet in it.
Now 24 years later, it is leaking slowly onto the floor of the cabinet in the laundry room.
My wife uses it to bath the dogs (dachshunds) and never uses the sprayer. She wants a new faucet.
Happy wife = happy life.
Now to the question, are all modern faucets the same "foot print"? Are the holes to hold the faucet down and the center hole pretty much the same size? I know we can get a plug for the hole for the sprayer. She likely wanted a taller faucet, and maybe one the center of the faucet pulls out if a sprayer is needed. Maybe we can put a soap dispenser in the hole for the current sprayer.
It is not very high flow, a gallon takes 40 seconds. Many of the faucets show at 1.5 gallon per minute and a faster flow rate would be better, but likely really hard to find due to government standards.
So can we pick out a nicer faucet made in the current standards that will bolt right up?
I ask mostly because my old bachelor pad house was built in the 1950s and nothing at all, ever, was the same as what was on the market. The bathtub had two knobs about 18 inches apart. They only fix was to remove the entire faucet and have it rebuilt. Same for the kitchen sink that had a lead pipe going to the drain. Nothing was ever simple on that house.