Tuscany faucet

I have a kitchen faucet, similar to the one pictured, that came with my home when I bought it in 2020. The handle started to come loose a few weeks ago and then came completely off last week. It appears there is a very small set screw missing that keeps the handle attached and in place. I’ve been trying to find a replacement set screw online and in stores, but not having much luck since I have no idea what size it is (it’s very small). Any advice or guidance is appreciated! TIA!

I am replacing my bathroom faucet and would like some feedback on this faucet please. I really just need to know if the quality is good. It’s a Menards faucet from what I understand. Thanks for your help!

My Tuscany pull down kitchen faucet has a leak after being installed only 9 months ago. The water drips from the hole under the sink where the 3 hoses (pull down, hot and cold) run up into the housing. It only leaks if the single handle to adjust temperature is moved while the water is on. So you can put it on either hot or cold while the handle is off, then turn it on- no leak. But if you turn it from cold to hot or vice versa while the water is running - leak. Any tips? Is it worth trying to fix or just bring it back to the store and hope they’ll exchange it?

Hi! I purchased a Tuscany bathroom faucet from my local menards the other day. It was on the shelf with all of the regular faucets and not marked clearance or anything of the sort that I can remember, just showed on sale so I purchased it. We have now decided we wanted to go with a bronze finish so I would like to return the Tuscany faucet, is this going to be an issue? It states on the website that it's "clearance". Wanting to purchase the new faucet now online and wouldn't be able to return this faucet until after the Xmas holiday.

I installed a Menards house brand Tuscany faucet 6 years ago. Slow drip already so I pulled the faucet to clean off the peeling clear coat on the brushed stainless finish. Found a Moen cartridge was a exact fit for the leak. I cut the lines on removal rather than twist the small copper lines coming out of the faucet. Turns out new 1/2 ×3/8 lines do not fit. The what I thought was a 3/8 is so small the new 3/8 pushes over the top. Then I remember the faucet came new with feed lines. To cover up the screw up on this China Faucet they included feed lines. Now nowhere can I find lines that fit. I had to reuse the old feed line fittings and hose clamp them to the new lines Where can I find 1/2 by metric or whatever they are feed lines? I am getting by for now with the hose clamp work around but I'm afraid I'm coming home to a flooded house one of these days.

I have a Tuscany one-handle kitchen faucet. It used to work fine on all positions and spray, now on cold it works with good pressure at the start then after about 30 secs. the pressure drops a lot. The cold on the sprayer still has full pressure. If the cartridge is clogged on the cold side, wouldn't it have low pressure from the start? Can't find the receipt right now, The new cartridge type G for it is about $12 from Menards. If that's even the problem, going to take it apart and see if I can find a blockage. Any Advice

I have a Tuscany one-handle kitchen faucet. It used to work fine on all positions and spray, now on cold it works with good pressure at the start then after about 30 secs. the pressure drops a lot. The cold on the sprayer still has full pressure. If the cartridge is clogged on the cold side, wouldn't it have low pressure from the start? Can't find the receipt right now, The new cartridge type G for it is about $12 from Menards. If that's even the problem, going to take it apart and see if I can find a blockage. Any Advice?
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We need to replace our shower cartridge. It's from the brand Tuscany from Menards and my husband and I haven't been able to find it at Menards or online. It looks like it's been discontinued. What's the best option at this point? Is there a piece we could get to make a smaller one work or do we need to replace the whole shower faucet?
Please help!

Valve is ~4 years old, but pipes are 50+, I've replaced the valve cartridge a few times over the last few years and that would usually address low water pressure. I've been assuming it was just pipe grit build up. It's a Menards brand Tuscany faucet and I have also had some trouble with the cartridges just being defective.
 
This time however, I've tried two new cartridges and while my pressure is good, the water simply won't get hot. I've tried adjusting the anti-scald limiter (even just removing the whole thing) and fiddling with the stops on the valve. Pressure for both hot and cold is strong without the cartridge in the valve. I've removed the shower head and even tried back flushing by pouring water from a watering can and hose back down to the valve. I'm not seeing any grit anywhere in the system.
 
It could be that both cartridges are from a crappy batch (I bought the last two on the shelf) and are failing in the same way, but I'm at the limit of my knowledge about these things and am wondering if there's another set of things to check out? Any help would be appreciated.

Howdy,
We remodeled our bathroom and are on the finishing steps. The main problem we're having is that when we turn on the tub faucet, water comes out the shower-head at the same time. It's almost like there's too much water trying to come out the pipe, and the faucet isn't letting it out fast enough, so it's backing up and coming out the shower.
This is the unit we have: https://www.menards.com/main/bath/bathroom-faucets/bathtub-shower-faucets/tuscany-reg-marianna-trade-one-handle-5-spray-bathtub-shower-faucet/1125c/p-1444429312435-c-5906.htm?tid=2666430774730141755&ipos=12
If I only turn the handle on a little bit, or if I turn it on all the way, then the water coming out the shower is just a trickle. However, if I have the handle somewhere in between, when both hot and cold water is being used, the water coming out the shower is much stronger.
I'm not sure if it's a problem with the faucet or what. Anyone have any suggestions on what I could look into?
Thanks!

Week 19 – The Tour of Italy, but I rotated the flag

It’s a pretty empty week, but hopefully the wait will be worth it, with the first grand tour of the year kicking off on Friday! The first three stages of the 2022 Giro d’Italia will be something quite different, though, as Hungary is hosting the grand depart this year.
Apart from this, the biggest race of the week is the six-days long Four days of Dunkerque, in northern France, whereas the brand-new Vuelta a Andalucia will kickstart a fairly busy month in Spain for the women’s peloton.

Race	M/W	Rank	<	M	T	W	T	F	S	S	>
Carpathian Couriers Race	M	2.2U	<	2	3-4
4 Jours de Dunkerque	M	2.Pro			1	2	3	4	5	6
Bretagne Ladies Tour	W	2.1			1	2	3	4	5
Vuelta a Andalucia WE	W	2.1			1	2	3
Tour du Bénin	M	2.2			1	2	3	4	5	6
Giro d’Italia	M	2.UWT						1	2	3	(+18)
GP Eco-struct	W	1.1							x
Ronde van Overijssel	M	1.2							x
Sundvolden GP	M	1.2							x
GP Ciudad de Eibar	W	1.1								x
Flèche Ardennaise	M	1.2								x
GP Industrie del Marmo	M	1.2U								x
Ringerike GP	M	1.2								x

• Races in bold offer live coverage
• Races in italic span across multiple weeks

Last week recap

Warning! Major spoilers for all the races from the past week
Last week was a pretty good one for BORA-hansgrohe, with the German team claiming both WT races on offer. The Tour de Romandie had a rather toothless course and it came down to the last stage, an ITT, when Aleksander Vlasov overtook Rohan Dennis in GC. It might seem weird to see Dennis lose a race because of a time trial… but it was a tough, uphill one. There were surprising podium performances by Mäder and Geschke and two stage wins for Hayter. Meanwhile, the Eschborn-Frankfurt came down to a sprint as per usual, with Sam Bennett netting his first win in nearly a year and Kristoff keeping his streak of consecutive podiums in the German race, now at seven in a row. In women’s racing, the highest-rated race was the Festival Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg, where Marta Bastianelli took a stage and the overall classification.
In Spain, the Vuelta Asturias attracted more attention than usual as Simon Yates was riding it as his last race before the Giro. The BikeExchange rider won the first and the last stage in a convincing manner… but was far off the pace on the remaining stage, meaning the GC went to Ivan Ramiro Sosa. The team blamed the poor results on a “temperature shock” after training at altitude, but it wasn’t a very good look with the Giro just around the corner. The revamped Tour of Hellas proved to be a messy race, with several crashes and a stage neutralized due to thick fog. Kiwi rider Aaron Gate (Blackspoke) won the first stage from a solo breakaway and kept his lead safe for the rest of the race, although that day will be probably remembered for poor Eduard Prades crossing the line in second place, celebrating thinking he had won and falling off the bike simultaneously.
There was a lot of racing at the .2 level last week, with some interesting results here and there. On Monday, German NT rider Henri Uhlig won the men’s GP della Liberazione in downtown Rome, while Valcar’s Silvia Persico won the women’s race; it was a great week for the Persicos, as Silvia’s brother Davide won the Circuito del Porto on Sunday, a completely flat race which- as usual- ended in a mass sprint. The women’s GP della Liberazione was a good omen for things to come: Persico went on to have a solid showing in the Festival Elsy Jacobs, whereas Polish rider Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka, who rode for CCC in the past, had a massive showing in the Gracia, winning three stage out of five and coming in second place in the remaining two.
In France, Johan Le Bon won the Tour de Bretagne. The former FDJ rider, now riding for Breton club Dinan, only took the GC lead on the last day, when he won from a convincing solo attack… and to make things sweeter, the stage was finishing in his hometown, Lannion. The Leiedal Koerse, the new Belgian race that is supposed to grow into the women’s E3 one day, came down to a small group; the win went to Parkhotel’s Femke Markus, the younger sister of Jumbo’s Riejanne. In the Netherlands, former Rabobank rider Coen Vermeltfoort won the Zuidenveld Tour from a small group- it’s his third win of 2022, and the sixth for his team (VolkerWessels).
Two new one-day races were held in Poland, and they both ended in a sprint: Polish Marceli Boguslawski (HRE) scored his second win of the season in GP Nasielsk-Serock, whereas the following day saw a win for a WT rider, Itamar Einhorn, in the GP Wyszków. Normally WT riders can’t partake in .2 events, but Einhorn was racing for his national team (Israel) rather than his trade team (also Israel). In roughly the same area, the cross-border Carpathians Couriers Race kicked off on Friday: young Croatian Fran Miholjević (Friuli), who took a hugely surprising win at the Tour of Sicily a couple of weeks ago, is currently leading the overall classification after winning the mountainous Sunday stage, but there are still three stages to go.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the Tour of the Gila was the first North American race of the season. In the women’s race, Lauren De Crescenzo (Cinch Rise) had the ride of a lifetime, winning stage 2 solo, more than five minutes ahead of her chasers; she successfully defended her lead through the remaining three stages. The men’s race came down to the last day, with American Sean Gardner (CS Velo) coming third on the queen stage and successfully taking the GC in the process.

Giro d’Italia (stages 1-3)

It’s finally time for the first Grand Tour of the season! The first three stages of the Giro will definitely be a novel experience, though, as the grand depart will be held in Hungary: this had originally been the plan for 2020, but the pandemic forced to postpone it.
The race opens up on Friday with a road stage wrapping up in Visegrád, the castle town that in recent years has been synonimous with the informal alliance between Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic- it’s a completely flat stage wrapping up with a 5-kms long climb at 5% gradient, open to a variety of different outcomes. Stage 2 is a short ITT in downtown Budapest with an uphill finish, whereas stage 3 will be a completely flat affair in the area close to lake Balaton. After this appetizer- a small pot of goulash rather than bruschettas- the riders will enjoy the first rest day of the race as they’ll tackle a long transfer to Sicily.
Contenders for the race include Carapaz, Bilbao, Landa, Simon Yates, Bardet, Almeida and an array of slightly more outlandish picks such as the Hindley-Kelderman ticket, Martin, Carthy, Valverde and Ciccone. The biggest names are all set for the Tour, as is often the case, but this means that hopefully we’ll get an open contest with many potential surprises.
Eurosport has exclusive broadcasting rights in most of the world. Keep in mind that, while Italian public broadcaster Rai will still be showing the race in its home country, production was outsourced to Euromedia (the company responsible for producing the Tour de France) so hopefully the quality of the broadcast in the event of bad weather in the mountains will improve.

4 Jours de Dunkerque

The 4 Jours de Dunkerque is a stage race taking place in northern France, whose name translates to “four days of Dunkirk”: if there was a prize for the race that sounds the most like a wartime episode, this one would definitely take it. Despite what you might think from such a telling name, the race actually lasts for six days! It used to be four-days long (although only for a handful of years between the 50s and the 60s), but the name stuck around.
Another matter of confusion is the race’s moniker- “Grand Prix des Hauts-de-France” might have you think that the course covers the whole Hauts-de-France (Upper France), but it largely sticks to a smaller area within it, the former Nord-Pas de Calais region. The course is one big loop, starting and ending in Dunkerque; as you might remember from Paris-Roubaix, this area is nearly completely flat, so the course of this race tends to heavily favour sprinters- the defending champion is Jumbo’s Mike Teunissen, for example, and riders such as Démare and Coquard have won the GC here too. Apart from some short côtes here and there, the race’s iconic, pivotal point is usually the end of stage 5, with many laps of the Cassel circuit, which includes the only climb of note of the whole race- and a cobbled one at that. Apart from this, and despite visiting places associated with cobbles such as Mons-en-Pèvele and Roubaix itself, the race doesn’t feature other cobbled sectors.
There will be live coverage on Eurosport in France, but I can’t vouch for other countries.

Women’s races in Spain

The women’s peloton will enjoy a fairly busy Spanish schedule over the next few weeks, and to start it off, we’ll have the very first women’s edition of the Vuelta a Andalucia.
Set up by DeporInter, the same organizers behind the men’s race, the maiden edition of the ruta del sol will last from Tuesday to Thursday and it will be made up of three hilly stages, all taking place in the area around Málaga. Both stages 1 and 2 have late climbs followed by a plateau-ish finale, whereas stage 3 has the hardest climb of the race overall… but it’s coming far from the finish line, and the course eases off towards the end. Five WT teams will be at the start: Canyon, Movistar, Roland, SD Worx and UAE. Eurosport, CanalSur and Andalucía Television are listed as live broadcasting partners. Update: despite what was claimed by the organizers, there doesn't seem to be live coverage, although highlights reels will be available.
Then, on Sunday, the women’s peloton will move to northern Spain for the GP Ciudad de Eibar, held around the Basque city it is named after. This race has a very Vuelta-esque course, with a largely flat course until a late climb… and as it is often the case in northern Spain, it’s going to be a relatively short effort, but also a fairly steep one. After the top, there will be two flat kms until the finish line. The race was first held in 2018, but it only acquired UCI status last year, when Anna van der Breggen won solo. According to the race’s promotional material, there should be a livestream on the [organizers’ website](clubciclistaeibarres.org/).

Bretagne Ladies Tour

After the men’s Tour de Bretagne last week, a women’s race will take place in the same area this week. It was revamped in 2019 after a short hiatus, with a new name (going from Tour de Bretagne Féminin to Bretagne Ladies Tour) and title sponsorship by Ceratizit. Despite another forced stop due to the pandemic, the organizers seem committed to develop the race and bolster its status, and they made the jump from 2.2 to 2.1 this year.
Held over the course of five stages, the Ladies Tour spans across the whole of Brittany, covering all four departments making up this region in clockwise-order starting from Morbihan. Like the men’s race, stages are mostly flat, with some short, punchy côtes along the way including the famous Mur de Bretagne climb on stage 4. To spice the GC up a bit, there is also a short ITT on Friday. The defending champion from 2019 is Audrey Cordon-Ragot, but she won’t be back at the start, despite having a stage finish in her hometown- FDJ and UAE are the only WT teams slated to appear.
Update: there will be a livestream for this race on the SportEnFrance website.

GP Eco-struct

The GP Eco-struct is a women’s one-day race held in Flanders, near Wetteren. It’s a relatively new addition to the UCI calendar, having been first held in 2020; so far, the course has been a bit different every year, but always pancake flat… and so far, Lorena Wiebes has a perfect record in this race, having won in both 2020 and 2021; Susanne Andersen has been on the podium in both occasions, too. The 2022 course will also include a short cobbled sector, tackled five times- but it doesn’t really look like it could prevent a sprint. Like the Bretagne Ladies Tour, this race also got a boost in status this year, having gone from 1.2 to 1.1.

.2 races

• The Carpathian Couriers Race, a cross-border U23 race, kicked off last Friday and it will last for two more days. Monday’s stage is a hilly one in Poland, while we will be back in Slovakia for the last day, which is split between a short mountainous stage and a short, challenging uphill ITT, both taking place in the Tatra mountain range.
• The national tour of Benin will last from Tuesday to Sunday. The event has been held (albeit inconsistently) since 1992, and this year the race made the jump to the UCI calendar. As with most African stage races, the startlist should mostly be made up of small local clubs and national teams from the continent, with the occasional visitors from Europe. The course will be largely flat, as the country’s geography doesn’t offer much else; the race wraps up with a crit stage in Cotonou, Benin’s largest city. Burkina Faso riders have been having a blast in this race, with the past five winners in a row coming from said country.
• Saturday’s Ronde van Overijssel is a regional race in the Netherlands across the province of the same name, located in the northeastern part of the country. The profile has got some more bumps compared to your usual (non-Limburg) Dutch race… but it’s a largely flat race nevertheless. The race is coming back after a two-years long Covid-related hiatus; the defending champion is quasi-U23-world-champion Nils Eekhoff, currently at DSM.
• There will be two one-day races in Norway over the weekend: Sundvolden GP on Saturday and Ringerike GP on Sunday. Both events take place around Tyrifjorden, a large lake near Oslo, and both are named after the respective host towns: the latter is a fairly long-standing event, whereas the former has been created more recently as a “sister race”. Saturday’s race sees the peloton tackle the whole coastline of the lake before a 5 kms-long climb to the finish line; Sunday’s race has a flatter course with some hills along the way. These races weren’t held in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid-19; the defending champions are two Norwegian riders, Trond Trondsen and Kristoffer Skjerping, both with short stints in cycling’s upper tiers (Skjerping briefly rode for Cannondale, whereas Trondsen was a Wanty stagiaire); neither will be back to defend their 2019 win, though, as they have both since retired.
• Sunday’s Flèche Ardennaise might not be the most creatively named race- another Flèche in Wallonia, how original!- but it’s a very tough event. The course is a bit different compared to previous years, and it has become much harder. Held in the hilly southern part of Liège province, deep in the Ardennes forest, it features a relentless succession of short, punchy climbs, some of which- especially the ones towards the end- are very steep. Even if the race had a slightly easier course in the past, it should be noted that most recent winners here went on to ride in the World Tour- this includes defending champion Simon Pellaud, who went on to join Androni and then Trek.
• The Italian U23 season rides on with Sunday’s GP Industrie del Marmo (GP Marble Industries). As its name suggests, this race takes place around Carrara, a city in northern Tuscany where very high-quality marble- the one Michelangelo used for his statues- is quarried. The name isn’t just a gimmick, the race takes place on a circuit connecting the seaside to the hills above the city, visiting the area where huge quarries of the precious rock are found. The race, like many of the ones listed above, wasn’t held in the past two years; the defending champion is Patrick Gamper, who has since joined BORA-hansgrohe, an apt team as I guess Carrara marble tiles go along nicely with fancy bathroom faucets.

The upstairs shower has recently started cooling after about 5 minutes and by 10 minutes, even maxing out the faucet makes no difference. The water will be warm, but not hot.
Luckily, we have a second shower in the basement. It has no issues staying hot even for back to back showers. All other faucets in the house also have no hot water issues.
The shower in question was remodeled in May of 2021, the contractor installed a Tuscany Forden One Handle 6-Spray Bathtub Shower Faucet. I'm relatively handy, so if this is an issue of the cartridge or anti-scald device, I can probably handle it, but I'm looking for advice before I start removing the caulk and taking the faucet handle off. Thanks in advance.

good evening,
plumbers of Reddit, on a scale of Worst Idea >> Best Idea, what do you think the odds of success would be for using the two handle holes on a 8" center set vanity top for soap and lotion dispensers? renovating the bathroom, and a single hole faucet is strongly preferred, but the vanity top i like is 3 hole only.
https://www.menards.com/main/bath/bathroom-vanities-tops/vanity-tops/tuscany-reg-37-x-22-white-square-vanity-top/mc90375/p-1493619752584-c-8403.htm
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Pfister-Weller-Brushed-Nickel-1-handle-Single-Hole-WaterSense-Bathroom-Sink-Faucet-with-Drain/1000344971
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Plumb-Pak-Brushed-Nickel-Soap-and-Lotion-Dispense1056853
faucet and soap / lotion dispensers are for example.
you think it would work out, or be super crowded?
thanks!
edit : thanks for the advice, guys!