As a homeowner, you constantly look for ways to improve the way your home functions. You may change your habits or renovate your home systems to conserve water and energy, improve user experience, and save money in the long run.

One of the most cost-effective steps a homeowner can take to optimize their home is to install faucet aerators. In this blog, we explain how these tools work and list nine common benefits of faucet aerator use.

What Is a Faucet Aerator and How Does It Work?

If carefully selected, plastic is an essential material used for faucet components – to ensure water safety and to provide hard-wearing and long-lasting fixtures.

There are varying ways plastic is used in faucets and it is often perceived as less durable or less suitable for high-quality products. However, this is not always correct. Depending on the manufacturer and the specific type of plastic used, it comes in multiple forms, functions and qualities. Here's all you need to know.

In Oras faucet applications, composite and hard-wearing plastics can be the optimal solution and are indispensable to deliver high performance and durability. Depending on the type and properties of the plastic used, plastic covers a wide range of applications in faucets.

A faucet controlled by a foot pedal valve works like a single lever faucet and can be connected to any faucet type. The hardware for the pedal is available in an array of finishes and colors to complement your kitchen cabinets and hardware, like the example pictured to the right. It attaches at the bottom of the kitchen cabinet and is connected by stainless steel hoses to the supply valves and faucets. The water temperature is set using the faucet handles and the foot pedal can be locked in place to use the faucet in a conventional manner. The foot pedal control also allows you to manage the volume of water flowing from the faucet.

Why include a foot pedal controlled faucet?

At Ecoprod our main aim has always been to offer products that help our clients to conserve water (indeed, weve written before about the importance of water saving for all of us). Sensor taps generally include an aerator in the spout which disperses the water and means that much less is needed for washing than is the case with traditional taps.

This means that sensor taps generally have a much lower flow rate than traditional hand-operated basin taps. Traditional taps can use up to 10-15 litres of water per minute. In comparison, our Conti+ taps offer flow rates of as little as 2 litres per minute, up to 70% less than traditional taps and our miscea taps use around 60% less water than traditional taps.

We sometimes speak to customers who are concerned that switching to sensor taps might increase their energy usage, given that sensor taps need electricity in order to work. However, there are many more factors to consider when determining the energy efficiency of taps. Whilst traditional hand-operated taps don’t require any electricity for their operation, they are extremely inefficient in other ways.

Choosing the user's preferred flow and temperature every time a traditional tap is turned on wastes a great deal of energy. In contrast, sensor taps enable you to keep water at a constant temperature so you don't need to expend energy changing the water temperature. For this reason, taken as a whole, they tend to be much more energy efficient than traditional hand operated taps.

What are aerators?

Aerators are small attachments that are fitted at the end of water taps or can be inserted inside the spout.

With water levels falling drastically and several states across India facing a severe water shortage, a simple device called an aerator could come in handy in controlling the flow of water in households and thereby conserving it.

Aerators are small attachments that are fitted at the end of water taps or can be inserted inside the spout.

The purpose of an aerator or flow regulator is to maintain a constant rate of water flow, which is not affected by pressure fluctuations.

Aerators come in the form of mesh screens that divide the flow of water into multiple small streams by adding air in between.