Poll looked at behavior in kitchens, bathrooms
(NUE)--What's cooking in the kitchen? What's steaming up the bath? A recent national consumer poll, conducted by Delta Faucet Company, uncovered common preferences and concerns about these two high-traffic rooms in the home.
On average, people turn their kitchen faucets on and off about 20 times per day--some as many as 40 times per day. Three-quarters of the survey respondents have a pullout faucet or vegetable sprayer, used most often to clean the sink (75 percent) or rinse food (62 percent), but 8 percent admit to using their pullouts and vegetable sprayers for water fights!
Just about everyone dreads doing the dishes and, in many households, the dirty work doesn't end there. The top five untraditional items washed in the sink are refrigerator shelves (72 percent), barbecue accessories (58 percent), sunglasses (32 percent), hair (30 percent) and babies (22 percent).
If you don't like cleaning the bathroom, you're not alone. Getting down and dirty in the lav is the most dreaded household chore, cited by 35 percent of respondents. Asked about other bathroom pet peeves, more than half of the men surveyed complain about cluttered counters, while one-third of women are bothered by razor stubble in and around the sink bowl.
Not surprisingly, those with children are twice as concerned as those without children (30 percent vs. l4 percent) about family members getting scalded in the shower. On a lighter note, when asked which celebrity would be welcome as a shower partner, one-third of women dream of Tom Cruise washing their backs, while one-quarter of men picture themselves singing shower tunes with Heather Locklear!
When asked about faucets of the future, nearly half the respondents would like to see models with easier operation and better water temperature control. A third would be willing to try electronic faucets in their homes, and one creative person envisions a remote control faucet.
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