DishmasterM70BNHA Sapphire Kitchen Faucet - High Arc Spout - Brushed Nickel

I honestly don't understand why Dishmasters are not more popular. They are very convenient when you just need to wash a small number of dishes and utensils and don't want to run the automatic dishwasher. We've had various incarnations of the Dishmaster for decades, even installing one on our Catalina 42 sailboat. This "Sapphire" model replaces an essentially identical one I installed in our kitchen back in December 2016. Eventually it corroded internally and started leaking and the diverter was sticking so it was time for a replacement. The price for the same Sapphire model has increased substantially from about $210 in 2016 to about $360 in January 2022, but once you've owned a Dishmaster there's no going back to a "regular" kitchen faucet, even one with an extendable sprayer. In the attached image, the water temperature/flow handle is on the left and the diverter (from spout to the black soap/brush handle) is on the right. The diverter is the aforementioned "annoying design flaw." One reason for replacing our prior Dishmaster was that after about five years of use the diverter would occasionally stick and not return to its vertical (flow to the spout) position. If we didn't notice this, the next time we'd turn on the faucet we could get an unexpected shower from the brush handle! A workaround was to always store the handle facing toward the greenhouse window plants ... but we'd sometimes forget and then the cussing would begin. A big disappointment with the replacement Dishmaster is that it sticks just as frequently as our old corroded one, Grrrrrrrrrr! Other than that one flaw, this is an excellent product, relatively easy to DIY install with clear instructions included and no special tools required. Just remember to always store the brush handle facing AWAY from the civilians in the kitchen.Update: The nice folks in the service department at Dishmaster sent me a free modified diverter cartridge that has a 0.035" spacer rather than the standard 0.040" spacer. For about two weeks this "solved" the sticking diverter problem, but now it's back with a vengeance. I gave why wife one of those unexpected showers this morning ... she was not amused! Before Dishmaster was sold to SilverStream LLC their products worked like a champ, but now with the redesigned diverter cartridge it's got a problem. Dishmaster should just return to the original diverter cartridge design. You would need to replace the cartridge every few years, but that's a 10 minute job and the cartridges are only about $14.

I sure wish this was built like the old dish Masters this one you need to make sure the sprayer is off otherwise if you turn the faucet on you get a shower

Great product!