I posted a story Monday night asking one question about pot fillers.

Seventy one of you wrote back. Plenty were just the word POT so I would send you my picks. A lot of them were not. They were real answers about how you live in your kitchen.

I have posted about pot fillers before and the comments turned into a fight. This time I just read every reply. And what came back was not really an argument about a faucet.

It was two groups of people who will never agree, and a third thing almost nobody talks about.

The every day replies all had the same list in them. Pasta. Veggies. Hard boiled eggs. Big pots, every week.

One of you gave the best reason I have heard for it. Start the water and the burner at the same time. The pot is already heating while you would still be standing at the sink waiting for it to fill.

And some of you said the same thing I would say. It looks great. Against stone or a tile backsplash behind the range, it is the one fixture people walk up to.

I want to be fair to this side, because they are not wrong about everything.

One side says you still have to carry the pot back to the sink to drain it. True. A pot filler fills. It does not drain.

"It's just a water source with no drain. It leaks, you suffer." Also fair. It is one more connection inside a wall.

"Had one. Useless." Short and honest. And it fits the one pattern I keep seeing. People either use theirs every single day or never touch it. Almost nobody is in the middle.

Here is what surprised me. A bunch of you are not putting a pot filler over the stove at all.

One of you is putting in three. Two of them are dog water stations, one in the laundry room and one outside. Fill the bowl right where it sits.

Another one wants it at the coffee station. Fill the pot or the coffee maker without walking to the kitchen sink.

That changes the whole question. It is not really "do I want a pot filler." It is "where in this house do I keep carrying water from one place to another."

Wherever that answer is, a water line in the wall during rough in is cheap. After the tile is up, it is not.

Two things fix most of what the pointless side is worried about.

Put a shutoff where you can reach it. If it ever drips, you close one valve. You do not pull tile to find it.

Keep the run short and use it. One of you called it a dead leg, and that is a real thing. Water that sits in a line nobody opens goes stale. If you are not going to use it at least every week, skip it. That is an honest answer, not a failure.

And if one goes outside, plan the freeze protection. A shutoff inside the house, so you can drain that line before the first hard freeze.

71. Replies to one story about one faucet. Nobody feels neutral about a pot filler.

This one gets decided at plumbing rough in, before the backsplash wall is closed.

"I want a cold line and blocking behind the range for a pot filler, with a shutoff I can reach. And is there anywhere else in this house I should stub one out while the walls are open?"

That second sentence is the one that gets you the dog station or the coffee bar.

I put together twelve of them in four different looks. Matte black, champagne bronze, polished nickel and stainless, wall mount, single and double handle.

They are all in one collection right here (paid link). Tap it and all twelve open.

Everything I write about here is the same shape. Cheap while the wall is open, expensive the minute it closes. That is the entire field guide, 50 of them, with the numbers and the words to say before they close the walls.

I am still thinking about the ones who are not putting it over the stove. Where would yours go?

If you know somebody whose plumber has not roughed in yet, forward this to them today. This one is gone the day the backsplash wall gets closed.

And if one person signs up off your link, I will send you the full cost breakdown of the first house I ever built. Every line I tracked, 2017 prices, which are going to hurt to look at. It is not for sale and it never has been.

That is it for this week.

Hit reply and tell me where you would put one. Over the stove, or somewhere I have not thought of. I answer these myself.

Jon | Built With This