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Update Commercial Restroom Faucets on a Budget with Chicago Faucets
Whether you’re looking for a way to refresh the look of your commercial restroom or need to swap out components due to wear and tear, interchangeability can be a key to affordable and efficient faucet upgrades. Chicago Faucets prides itself in its century-long company history that has always invested in producing durable, interchangeable components to serve its customers’ needs best.
The company’s extensive product catalog contains millions of individual components and parts for manual, metering, and touchless faucets combined into more than 10 million unique configurations. And if you still can’t find what you need, Chicago Faucets offers an online configurator that allows you to create the perfect faucet for your unique application.
Chicago Faucets’ professional team uses their combined know-how to develop faucets the market needs. Ideas, concepts, development, testing, manufacturing, quality control, and logistics are all managed in-house and in the United States.
Counter-Cultural Attitude
In our modern throw-away culture, Chicago Faucets stands by its belief that when you need to update a bathroom design or improve your faucets’ performance, there’s no need to replace the whole faucet. In fact, the company is still supporting 100-year-old faucets with currently available components, parts, new features, and updated designs.
When you invest in a faucet from Chicago Faucets, you can rest assured that we will support and service that product decades from now, helping you lengthen your long-term return on investment. Save time and money for the long haul.
Swapping out Components
Interchangeability and backward compatibility allow you to enhance future design changes, use your current commercial-grade faucet for years, and save time in making updates or upgrades.
Spouts
Chicago Faucets offers a wide range of spout designs for different sink applications, including kitchen, scullery, laboratory, service, and pre-rinse. All use the same common base platform and threads, making changes simple, fast, and cost-effective.
Outlets
One area that has seen a great deal of change by the industry and local municipalities is water flow. Local regulations may specify low-flow standards in locations of the country where droughts and water shortages are an issue. In recent years, these standards continue to drop lower.
Chicago Faucets offers outlets that can meet these wide ranging standards’ needs, allowing facilities managers to simply swap out outlets when regulations change. Those businesses operating in the foodservice industry may opt for full flow outlets, while regulated flow outlets can provide a flow range of between 0.35 and 2.5 gallons per minute (GPM).
During the COVID-19 global pandemic, there has been a greater interest in Chicago Faucets’ antimicrobial outlets. These outlets typically incorporate the natural protection of metals like silver that can prevent the growth of a broad range of microorganisms. Environmental wear or design updates may also influence outlet choices. We offer both male and female threaded versions for all common outlet configurations so that you can obtain exactly the components needed for your application.
Handles
If you’re looking for a way to freshen up the look of your commercial restrooms, consider changing out your faucet’s handles. Chicago Faucets offers a wide range of designs that are interchangeable on its common base platform. Select from canopy wing handles, laboratory cross, canopy lever, traditional lever, wrist blade handles, and others.
Cartridges
The type of cartridges you install in your faucet can significantly change your faucet’s control and operation. Chicago Faucets offers an updated version of its traditional compression cartridge, originally released in 1913. These are the most popular because they can be rejuvenated at a low cost making them sustainable and very environmentally friendly.
Ceramic cartridge faucets grew in popularity years later. Some organizations prefer ceramic cartridges because they offer smoother operation and the generally smaller size creates additional design flexibility. The trade-off is at the end of their service life they are simply disposed of.
Chicago Faucets also offers a variety of metering/ self-closing and loose key cartridges for specialty applications. For example, a school may want to limit the duration of water delivery such as to prevent a faucet left running preventing waste or flooding.. Most of Chicago Faucets manual and metering faucet cartridges are interchangeable allowing a facility to cost effectively convert a standard manual faucet to metering. Many other cartridges are available to allow you to convert the operation of your faucets.
Inlet Arms
A variety of inlet arms are also compatible with the common base platform threads. These can include straight offsets, one-way check valve, integral stops, and extensions. Those facility managers who are seeking a way, for example, to mount a tap to a straight pipe exiting a wall can find the exact inlet arm to do so.
Touchless Faucet Interchangeability
The interchangeability and backward compatibility offerings of Chicago Faucets extend beyond its manual faucets into its touchless models. From a single HyTronic platform, Chicago Faucets offers several replaceable spout options to easily replace if vandalized, or damaged by acidic cleaners without replacing the entire faucet, and update your design or look of your restroom.
Power Options
If you find that your company must comply with a new green initiative, environmental policy, or budget requirement, related to touchless faucets Chicago Faucets provides flexibility when it comes to power sources as well. It’s simple to swap out a manual faucet for DC, Self-Sustaining Power Supply (SSPS) turbine model, or Long Term Power Supply (LTPS) options.. If AC power is readily available there are AC power choices that include an Electronic Backup Power Supply (EBPS) ensuring the faucet will continue to work in the event of a power outage. A requirement in many hospital and school settings..
Online Configurator
Suppose you still cannot find exactly the right faucet for your specific application after searching Chicago Faucets’ massive catalog. In that case, you may want to configure your own with our online configurator. This tool allows you to create a faucet to fit your application by pulling from our vast selection of interchangeable components and features.
For more information, check out our free online webinar on interchangeable design.
Conclusion
Businesses and organizations can save money and time by taking advantage of Chicago Faucets’ interchangeable design and backward compatibility offerings. Changing components to update a design, improve functionality or meet changing regulations is much easier when you don’t need to replace your entire faucet. Interchangeability will save you time and money for decades to come.
