Irving’s Plumbing Supplies carries a comprehensive range of kitchen and bathroom faucets for residential as well as commercial use. Despite the overwhelming variety of faucets to choose from, a faucet is still only a faucet – an end point valve that controls water volume and temperature. Instead of controlling the flow of water through the pipes, a faucet valve allows the water to flow through a spout. We offer residential and commercial faucets with a variety of materials, finishes and in two popular valve types: washer and washerless or cartridge. Our suppliers include major manufactures such as Chicago Faucets, Belanger, Simmons, Delta Commercial, Waltec, Nafphil, Moen, Aquabrass, Grohe, KWC, and Sloan.
There are roughly four different factors to consider when it comes to choosing the right faucet for your unique situation:valve type, material, finish, and design style. With the recent trend towards limited lifetime warranties, your choice really comes down to what is right for you and, as always, affordability.
Valve Type: Faucets fall into two basic categories: washer and washerless or cartridge. There are faucets that use a washer, either a rubber or composition disk with a hole in its centre, that closes against a metal seat when the faucet handle is turned. More reliable, durable and easier to repair than washer valves, washerless faucets are the latest in valve technology. While the majority of bathroom and kitchen faucets sold today are single or dual control cartridge faucets (use a movable plastic or brass cartridge), the ball(use hollow plastic or stainless steel ball) and ceramic disc faucets are becoming very popular. Because of their diamond like hardness, the ceramic discs provide a smooth, air tight seal, are resistant to sand, sediment and hard water and widely considered to be the most durable faucet valve on the market.
Material of Construction: most faucet bodies are made from solid brass or zinc die-cast. Solid brass faucets are durable, heavy in weight and resistant to corrosion and calcification. Zinc die-cast faucets are just as durable, but lighter than solid brass and more affordable. While some manufacturers are introducing plastic as viable material of construction that is lighter and less expensive than brass or zinc, it is not as durable.
Finishes: applied to increase durability, enhance maintenance and appearance, the chrome plated finish has always been the most durable and affordable finish. But constantly in need frequent cleaning to maintain its shine, the chrome plated faucet offers little in design flexibility. If you are looking for more style, manufacturers offer polymer finishes with color and brass plated finishes with a polymer coating. Easier to keep clean, but less durable and vulnerable to corrosion, these finishes are entirely dependent on the durability of the polymer coating. A possible solution might be the latest in finish technology, physical vapor deposition (PVD). More resistant to scratching, corrosion and tarnishing than any other type of finish and easy to clean, you might consider the polished brass finish produced by PVD.
Design Styles: there is no end to the style and expense of faucets when it comes to ease of use and temperature control. Faucets are available as either a single or two handle style. The single handle faucet allows you to control both the water volume and temperature with one handle. Functional for the kitchen, this faucet might be a good idea for children and elderly users who may have difficulty adjusting volume or temperature with a two handle type. You can now get a faucets with a retractable pull-down or pull-out spray spout that can alternate from an aerated spray to a stream making sink cleaning and pot filling easier. Some even come with scald protection valves that are great for kids or built-in thermometers that allow you to set the temperature so that adjustment is not needed each time the water is turned on and off.
Our suppliers include the following:
| Chicago Faucets For over a century Chicago Faucets has offered commercial and residential products built to stand the test of time. A combination of the best engineering, finest materials and quality workmanship has made Chicago Faucets the specified choice in many of the finest building projects throughout North America. These buildings include major universities, public schools, professional athletic stadiums, major hospitals and national medical campuses. We have delivered on our promise of quality for over 100 years. And now, we promise you delivery of the products you find on the following pages in two weeks or less. – Learn more |
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| Delta Faucets From innovative faucet designs and cutting-edge safety features, the lifetime anti-tarnish finish, Delta continues to lead the way in the faucet industry. Delta delivers exceptionally well-made, stylish faucets and related kitchen and bath accessories that are both beautiful inside and outside. This market- leading product line features a unique combination of stylish looks and excellent quality, and is available in a wide variety of finishes. |
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| Moen Faucets Known in the plumbing industry for its washerless cartridge system, Moen faucets offer the perfect balance between styles you’ll love and innovation you can live with. |
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| Grohe Faucets Characterized by the ultimate in technological quality and design, Grohe offers two handle and single handle faucets which lets you control both water temperature and water flow single-handedly. |
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| Aquabrass Faucets For more than 15 years, Aquabrass has offered faucets with a perfect design, using top quality materials and assembled in a traditional way at a competitive price. Dedicated to the fabrication and distribution of faucets of outstanding quality and design, Aquabrass offers the finest faucets at a competitve price. |
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To choose the right faucet for your office, restaurant, university or home, make sure you get the best advice you can, whether it be your local plumbing company or the interior designer or architect that is building the project.
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Irving’s Plumbing Supplies offers sound advice and a wide variety of bathroom luxuries. With the advancements in plumbing technology, it has never been easier to satisfy our passion for comfort, taste and cleanliness. Today’s bathroom is more than just a place for bathing and grooming. It is also a place for relaxation, wellness, recreation and even fitness. The modern bathroom might have faucet scuptures with satin nickel finishes, whirl pools large enough for two people, couches and sitting areas, bidets, toilets, saunas or steamers, showers with multiple shower heads, lavatories, fireplaces and even wine racks, televisions and sound systems. Add a spa and some fitness equipment and you can have your own private health club within your own home.
Save on energy and space with a Bosch tankless water heater. These tankless water heaters never run out of hot water offering you constant comfort. They are cheap to operate and are without a doubt the most energy efficient water heater on the market. Designed to last 20 years, Bosch tankless water heaters are small, lightweight and will hang on the wall in your bathroom. We carry both the electric and gas tankless water heaters. Two of our most popular gas units include the GWF635 and the GWF425 listed below. If you go to www.protankless.com, pick the model number that you are looking for and email it to us, we will get you a quote.
Irving’s Plumbing distributes utility water pumps for a variety of tasks including everything from powering a waterfall to draining low lying flooded areas. Our utility pumps run on electricity and are typically used for moving water or liquid materials between containers, draining hot water tanks, irrigation, and other similar activities. We offer two rugged utility pumps that are designed to move effluents, semisolids, and small solids in a variety of residential, commercial and industrial applications.
Irving’s Plumbing distributes submersible pumps for a variety of applications. A submersible pump is a water pump designed to be fully immersed within a tank or storage water container. The pump’s motor is usually sealed in oil-filled cavity protected from contacting the water. A submersible pump is used to move water or waste water from a lower pressure area to higher pressure area, and overcomes this difference in pressure by adding energy to the process using a motorized pumping system.
Irving’s Plumbing offers high efficiency sewage pumps at wholesale prices. Designed for pumping sewage and/or waste water in places where the septic system is higher than the home’s main drain, our sewage pumps will pass the wastewater with solids through a discharge line without cutting or grinding them. In a typical sewage system, the wastewater moves through a main drain into a holding tank where the sewage pump is located. A float switch wired to the pump acts an automatic switch, and turns the pump on and off as the level in the holding tank rises and falls. Since these pumps move sewage as well as water, they are rated for the size of solids they can move as well as how much water they can lift.
Irving’s Plumbing distributes other pumps for moving water in a plumbing system. A submersible pump is a device used to move water from a lower pressure area to higher pressure area, and overcomes this difference in pressure by adding energy to the process, i.e., a water system. Energy is added to the process by means of mechanical forces to push the water by physically lifting the water or by the force of compression.
The hot water dispenser is one of those luxuries that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it. Get the hot water you need when you want it and as much or as little as you want. Capable of providing hot water at 190° F, or as cool drinking water, this device is fast becoming a mainstay in today’s modern kitchens, high scale restaurants and hotels. Supplied by a small electric water heater installed under the sink, its small tank (2 to 3 gallons) holds enough hot water to be transported through a separte faucet that is much hotter than the main faucet.
Garbage disposal is a major concern for everyone. Household disposal systems, restaurant garburators and sophisticated food waste disposals systems all play a role in keeping our kitchens clean and our food safe and free from contamination. A garbage disposal or garburator is an electrical device installed under a kitchen sink between the drain and the U-bend. It shreds food waste into very small pieces so that they can be passed through the plumbing without clogging. Also called a food waste disposal, the most popular models are made by In-Sink-Erator, probably the largest manufacturer of garbage disposals.
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Irving’s Plumbing offers condensate pumps for a variety of tasks including moving drain water from a sink, most commonly in laundry tray applications, removing condensate from high efficiency furnaces, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, ice machines and other applications that generate condensate.