Kitchen Faucets - Touchless
Touchless Kitchen Faucets: Why Your Next Faucet Should Answer to a Wave
Raw-chicken hands. Dough up to your wrists. A toddler who cannot quite reach the handle. A touchless kitchen faucet solves all three with one motion sensor - and VIGO builds it into full pull-down workhorses like the Edison Touchless. Real creators installed these themselves and filmed every step.
EDISON TOUCHLESS IN MATTE BRUSHED GOLD - CREATOR KITCHEN BY @THE.DESSY.DWELLING
In short: A VIGO touchless kitchen faucet starts and stops water with a wave over a battery-operated motion sensor, so you never touch the handle with messy or germy hands. You keep every pull-down feature - dual-mode sprayer, docking spray head, solid brass build - and the sensor installs DIY-style with no electrician.
- A motion sensor means raw-meat hands, dough hands, and little hands never have to touch the faucet.
- The sensor runs on batteries, so installation is a normal DIY faucet swap - no outlet or hardwiring.
- You give up nothing: dual-mode pull-down spray, spring or magnetic docking, and solid brass construction carry over.
- The manual handle still works exactly like a standard faucet whenever you want it to.
- VIGO offers four touchless families - Edison, Greenwich, Gramercy, and Jewel - from 199.90, all with a limited lifetime warranty and free shipping.
THE SENSOR WINDOW SITS RIGHT ON THE FAUCET BODY - CAPTURED BY @THE.DESSY.DWELLING
THE CASE FOR HANDS-FREE
The messiest moments are exactly when you need the water most
Think about when you actually reach for the kitchen faucet. You have just broken down a chicken. Your hands are coated in flour and olive oil. You are holding a pot with both hands and need to top it off. In every one of those moments, a handle is the problem: either you smear it with whatever is on your fingers, or you do the awkward wrist-and-elbow dance to avoid it.
A touchless faucet removes the choice. Wave your hand - or a pot, or a cutting board - in front of the sensor and the water starts. Wave again and it stops. Whatever was on your hands stays off the fixture, which matters for hygiene when you are handling raw proteins and matters for looks when your finish is a spot-resistant matte brushed gold you would rather not wipe down five times a day.
It is also quietly great for kids. A child who cannot operate a stiff handle can wave a cup under the spout and get water. The sensor turns the sink into something the whole household can use without help - and without the faucet being left running.
HOW IT WORKS
Wave to start, wave to stop - and the handle still works
The sensor sits in a small window on the faucet body, facing you. Pass a hand within range and it toggles the water on; pass again to shut it off. There is no app, no pairing, no learning curve - the gesture is the whole interface.
Power comes from a battery pack that tucks under the sink, which is the detail that makes these faucets genuinely easy to live with. There is no outlet to add and no low-voltage wiring to run. When the batteries eventually run down, you swap them the way you would in a smoke detector.
And the manual handle never goes away. Temperature and flow are set the way you would on any single-handle faucet, and you can operate it entirely by hand whenever you like. The sensor is an addition, not a replacement - if it is ever without power, the faucet simply behaves like a standard pull-down.
- Battery-operated sensor. no electrician, no outlet under the sink, easy battery swaps.
- True toggle control. one wave on, one wave off - fill a stockpot without standing guard.
- Full manual override. the handle sets temperature and flow and works with or without the sensor.
SPRAY MODE OVER THE WORKSTATION SINK - BY @THE.DESSY.DWELLING
NO PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF
Everything you want from a pull-down, plus the sensor
A touchless faucet only earns its place if it is a great faucet first. VIGO's touchless models are built on the same platform as its pull-down kitchen faucets: solid brass construction, ceramic-disc cartridges rated for years of drip-free use, and cUPC certification.
The spray head pulls down and switches between an aerated stream for filling and a spray mode for rinsing produce or blasting the sink walls clean. Depending on the model, the head docks back on a coiled spring that holds the wand at the ready, or retracts and seats itself with a magnetic dock for a clean silhouette.
Finishes are spot-resistant, which pairs well with the whole point of touchless: fewer fingerprints on the fixture, less time polishing it. From the industrial spring profile of the Edison to the sleek single-silhouette Jewel, the sensor disappears into designs that stand on their own.
CREATOR INSTALL BY @CHAZA_DIYLADY - SHE DID THE WHOLE SWAP HERSELF
THE DIY INSTALL
Creators installed these themselves - on camera
The install is where touchless faucets used to scare people off, and it is exactly where VIGO's battery-powered design pays off. Because there is nothing to hardwire, the job is a standard faucet swap: shut off the supply valves, remove the old faucet, seat the new one, connect the lines, and mount the battery pack under the sink.
Creator @chaza_diylady did precisely that - she installed her gold touchless faucet with spring pull-down herself, filmed the process, and finished with the setup you see here: the faucet arcing over dark granite, sensor ready, no electrician ever called. The battery-operated sensor meant the hands-free feature came along for free with a normal DIY install.
If you have replaced a faucet before, this is the same afternoon project. If you have not, the single-hole mounting and pre-attached waterlines on VIGO kitchen faucets make it a forgiving first one - and free shipping sitewide means the whole kit lands at your door.
CHOOSING YOUR MODEL
Four touchless families, two docking styles, one sensor
All four VIGO touchless faucets share the sensor, the solid brass build, and the dual-mode pull-down sprayer - so the choice mostly comes down to silhouette and dock style. The Edison and Greenwich wear an exposed coil spring that reads workhorse and keeps the spray head at hand height. The Gramercy and Jewel go the other way: a clean, uninterrupted arc with the spray head seated flush in the spout.
Price-wise the spread is tight, so pick with your eyes. Match the spring models to workstation sinks and busy prep kitchens; match the sleek arcs to minimalist and transitional spaces where the faucet is part of the sightline.
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Edison Touchless (VG02001S)
The signature spring pull-down with a motion sensor - the creator favorite for workstation sinks.
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Greenwich Touchless (VG02029S)
A tighter spring profile with the same hands-free sensor and dual-mode sprayer.
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Gramercy Pull-Down (VG02008S)
The value pick: clean arc, pull-down convenience, sensor control at 199.90.
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Jewel Touchless (VG02039)
The sleekest of the four - a modern arc with a seated spray head and hidden sensor.
From $274.90
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Questions, answered
Do VIGO touchless faucets need an electrician to install?
No. The motion sensor runs on a battery pack that mounts under the sink, so installation is a standard DIY faucet swap with no outlet or hardwiring required.
What happens if the sensor batteries die?
The faucet keeps working as a normal manual pull-down using its handle. Replace the batteries in the under-sink pack and the sensor comes right back.
Can I still use the handle instead of the sensor?
Yes. The single handle controls temperature and flow just like a standard faucet, and you can use it exclusively whenever you prefer manual operation.
Do touchless models still have a pull-down sprayer?
Yes. All four VIGO touchless faucets include a dual-mode pull-down spray head - aerated stream and spray - with either a spring dock or a seated in-spout design.
Further reading
Keep your hands full and your faucet clean.
A wave is all it takes to run the water - no smudged handles, no cross-contamination, no electrician. Find the touchless faucet that fits your sink and install it yourself this weekend.
