This indeed is a piece of Chinese junk! I purchased this overpriced faucet from The Great Indoors for $209.99 and got ripped-off to the tune of $250.00 for installation by The Great Indoors. After 2 months the finish on the handle started to peel and after 6 phone calls and an email to Danze customer disservice w/no satisfaction, everytime my wife called for the status of a replacement handle the story changed. Finally my wife took the defective handle now w/no finish on the handle to the Great Indoors who reluctantly gave her a handle from one in stock. A couple of months ago it started to leak, not dripping but guishing and I went to Lowe's and purchased a comparible Price Pfister facuet and had it installed for $125.00. The Danze facuet lasted 13 months. I would never purchase another Danze faucet.