What is a plumbing fixture?
Although the kitchen and bathroom faucets and their controls that you see are often referred to as plumbing fixtures, they are really fixture fittings. Other, less visible fittings include hose bibcocks, valves, backflow preventers and pressure control devices. Brass has long been the preferred metal for such fixture fittings because it is extraordinarily durable and can be machined into precisely detailed parts.
