First post here but have been reading a ton on this forum throughout the process of renovating our apartment and have learned a lot from this great resource.
I’m about to rough in the plumbing for our new kitchen. I’ve always wanted foot pedals on my kitchen sink after seeing them in a commercial kitchen. Found some options online with pedals for separate hot and cold, just cold, or single pedal mixed warm. Looking through the instruction manuals and diagrams I could find it seems that they are designed to be the only way to turn on water to the sink, in other words they replace the hand valves completely. I want to maintain the option to control the sink with hand valves as well for things like filling large pots where I don’t want to have to stand at the sink with my foot on the valve while it fills up. I’m thinking there must be a way to have the best of both worlds with both the foot valve and hand valves connected together, maybe with some check valves and a tee that combines the output of both valves before going to the tap. Obviously the hand valves would need to be physically separate from the tap for this to work (not a one piece design).
Does anyone see a problem with this idea or think it would work? Know a better way to achieve this? Thanks!
I’m about to rough in the plumbing for our new kitchen. I’ve always wanted foot pedals on my kitchen sink after seeing them in a commercial kitchen. Found some options online with pedals for separate hot and cold, just cold, or single pedal mixed warm. Looking through the instruction manuals and diagrams I could find it seems that they are designed to be the only way to turn on water to the sink, in other words they replace the hand valves completely. I want to maintain the option to control the sink with hand valves as well for things like filling large pots where I don’t want to have to stand at the sink with my foot on the valve while it fills up. I’m thinking there must be a way to have the best of both worlds with both the foot valve and hand valves connected together, maybe with some check valves and a tee that combines the output of both valves before going to the tap. Obviously the hand valves would need to be physically separate from the tap for this to work (not a one piece design).
Does anyone see a problem with this idea or think it would work? Know a better way to achieve this? Thanks!