This is already my second generation of soap dispensers. The identical I have for a service of over 10 years replaced with this. I can only say that keep incredibly long, quality top. I had only one failure after 8 years at the old man. This began to drop, but after all this time you can not say. We have the other only exchanged because we simply times who wanted to have optics with chrome (the old ones were gray). Namely, they are not made of chrome but only plastic in Chrome finish.