Delta Marca Pull-Down Sprayer Faucet w/ ShieldSpray Technology Champagne Bronze

I like the design and looks of the faucet and it was easy to install with one exception. As others have noted, the instructions are terrible. For example, nowhere in the instructions does it tell you which water supply line is hot or cold. Only after searching the website for a half hour did I stumble across a video explaining that there are colored gaskets inside the compression nut that attaches to the water shut-off valves. I guess it's my bad that I didn't happen to notice these, but would it have killed Delta to add just one sentence pointing that out in the instructions?

I installed this faucet over a week ago and I found it to be the easiest faucet installation ever. Everything went smooth with hooking up the sprayer and connecting to the hot and cold lines. I looped the excess tubing and had no problem with leaks. The Magnatite feature is awesome, no more droopy nozzel. The forward handle is great for minimal distance to the back splash. I have a distance of 1.5 inches and I did not use the base plate because my sink does not require it. The 3 spray nozzel settings are a nice option to have. I do use all of them without any problems. Just make sure your sprayer is pulled down into the sink to avoid oversplash. Other than that, it's a great faucet and I highly recommed it. I wish I had purchased this a year ago.

EASY TO USE. SRAYER COMES OUT TO USE BUT NOT AS STRONG AS SEPERATE SPRAY

The faucet is wonderful. The instructions were horrible—hardly easy and it took two people to figure out how to install. BADDDDD instructions-incomprehensible wording. images of parts left out so we had to figure it out on our own. PLEASE hire someone to re-write the instructions and include all pictures of all parts and designate what goes to which faucet. WE are not improvement professionals, but we aren't stupid.

Every faucet I have installed ensured that there was no way for the main body to not move in a single hole installation. Instead, even if I have the brass nut tightened as far as I can take it and the screws in the tensioning piece tightened to the maximum, the main body of the faucet STILL moves. I have a 1.5" thick counter and the problem is that the body of the shank can move within the tensioning part. No amount of tightening is going to prevent this and even if I could, the plastic on that is going to wear down over time. This is really an awful design. The shank should be the size of the hole and the nut to secure it should not be able to move. I may not be a professional, but I am an engineer and I've done this enough times before to recognize something not thought through

I've had this faucet for a year, so I've had a good opportunity to test it out. I just changed the batteries for the first time and that prompted me to think again about the review. The faucet responds quickly to touch. I was disappointed to learn that the touch activation is an either/or situation - either you use the touch capability OR you use the manual faucet. I thought it would be both capabilities would be available, but I've adapted. My main concern is that the power spray really does nothing but get water everywhere. Even though my sink is deep and I'm careful to keep plates or pans low in the sink when I want to “blast” something off of them, water still gets everywhere. Quite honestly, even the more mild spray option has this effect. It takes a long time for hot water to really get hot, but that's probably more on my water heater than the faucet. Overall, I”m content with the performance of the faucet and it's easy to keep clean. It's also always entertaining to see people new to the kitchen try to figure out what the heck is happening when they use the handle to turn on the faucet. . . .

I have owned this faucet (and many other Delta faucets in the past, all happy) since December 2018. Now that I've owned and used it for a year, I can write an honest, objective opinion on this faucet. PROS: design, the name, the "ShieldSpray." I purchased this faucet because I wanted a "sleek, smooth" design that would be much easier and quicker to clean. The more grooves and designs it has, the more opportunity for dirt/water/grime to collect and break down quicker. NO THANK YOU!!! I wanted something that I can simply wipe off and get on with the next task instead of standing there and picking through each and every corner/groove/crevice to remove the water/dirt! CONS: 1) I'm guessing not many people will encounter the problem I did where the handle almost touches my dishwasher release valve I had installed next to my faucet. 1/16" wider (the handle) would have caused me to select an entirely new faucet for this reason BUT I got lucky. 2) I was excited to try out the new "ShieldSpray" feature. It works pretty well but like other reviewers stated, it does tend to splash around the sink. If you have the faucet turned on low, the single middle stream isn't strong enough to release the particles off of your dishes or sink but if you have the pressure on full blast, it splashes water around the dish you are trying to clear off. Therefore, I tend to not use this feature and find it to be wasteful. 3) my biggest complaint, however, comes from the spray feature. I'm not sure what genius engineer designed this feature but the fact that there is a "void" of spray/steam in the spray feature causes me to take longer to rinse my items or twist my items in ways I hadn't needed to in the past. This is making me use more water, too; not what I need. Does Delta not perform Quality Control or Quality Management or "test kitchens" (like food test kitchens???) to test out their products??? This boggled my mind. Couldn't believe anyone would like the "divided" spray feature. The empty spot in the middle isn't spraying any water to rinse, people! I want to warn EVERYONE to stay FAR away from this feature because it's useless! I've owned other brands (Kohler, Moen) and I've never encountered a problem like this. Make the spray feature either round, oval, or straight but PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU DELTA, DO NOT LEAVE A GAP IN THE SPRAY FEATURE!! If Delta has a way for me to retroactively switch out the faucet head to the full spray (not divided like this one does), I'd do it in a heartbeat! Did I say how much I hated the spray feature???!!! If I could uninstall and install faucets myself, I'd go and buy a new one today! The first opportunity I get to purchasing a new kitchen faucet, I'm on it!

I've owned Delta faucets for a long time and have always been happy with them, but the spray nozzle on this is over-engineered (the plumber who installed it agrees with this). What you end up with is three spray options that are not very good. Since there is only so much room on the spray head, the width of the standard stream is too small because the space has been sacrificed for the other spray options. The spray stream comes out in two patterns on either side of the center part of the spray head, and it comes out with a lot of force so that is splatters everywhere, and also just doesn't do a very good job of rinsing.The "shieldspray" feature I have yet to figure out how to use, but has a very fine stream that comes out in the center with great force and also splatters everywhere. My previous Delta faucet had a wider standard stream and a circular spray pattern where the water came out at a very useful force that made rinsing easy without a lot of splattering. On the positive side, the faucet is good-looking and looks nice in my kitchen.

This faucet is poorly designed for the price paid. #1 The extending spray head does not easily retract. I even added the weight from the faucet that I replaced, still poor retraction. The spray pattern from the head unit is 6 separate lines with a void in the middle. Works poorly. The markings for the direction for hot / cold positioning of the handle is so faint as to be difficult to see unless you know to look closely. The handle also has hot to the front which I feel is opposit what I would expect.

Faucet looks great but there's too much play in the handle when adjusting the water flow. The temperature adjustment works well, but it's hard to get the water flow right because the faucet mechanism is too loose. Ive tried tightening the Allen key on the handle but this doesn't help - the play is in the faucet mechanism itself.