Bathroom taps

Bathroom taps in classic styles which are equally at home in traditional or contemporary sbathrooms ettings and provide a wealth of opportunity for expressing your individual style.

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Bathroom taps and showers selected for our bathrooms range are offered in a wide choice of designs and price groups whilst always paying particular attention to the quality of the products. All our brassware for bathrooms meets with stringent standards of manufacture to ensure years of harmonious use.

Avalon Bathroom Taps
The bathroom taps and showers we offer reflect accumulated years of experience within the bathrooms market. This has allowed us to select the widest and best selection of bathroom taps and showers from leading manufacturers in Britain and Italy. Modern and Traditional, Conventional and Avante-Garde, our range would be at home in the most luxurious bathrooms in the world.

Ultra Taps Ultra taps new low prices
Bathroom taps by Ultra provide luxury bathroom products at desirable price's, combining comfort and reliability and quality craftsmanship. The design and manufacturing team work tirelessly to provide the best products for bathrooms at prices we believe will be hard to beat anywhere. Innovation is an everyday experience with Hudson Reed. Ultra bathroom taps

The products include modern and traditional style's and are available in Diamond finish which is the ultimate in decorative coatings. It produces a non-tarnish finish which is virtually impossible to destroy. It is scratch resistant, it will not fade, tarnish or deteriorate and will look good for life. This is true leading edge technology and for this reason they offer a lifetime gaurantee. They also offer a range of showers in sets which coordinate perfectly with the full brassware collection and shower towers. The bathrooms collection is completed by heated towel rails and accessories.

Perrin and Rowe
Bathroom taps classically styled which are equally at home in traditional or contemporary bathrooms and provide a wealth of opportunity for expressing your individual style.
Design flair and quality define the Perrin and Rowe collections of bathroom taps, showers and accessories. Perrin & Rowe tap's for bathrooms are made of brass which is electroplated with either chrome, nickel, pewter or gold finishes.

Grohe
Grohe bathroom taps are a product where quality goes hand in hand with the quality of life.One important way Grohe achieve this is by providing taps which make bathrooms a pleasure to be in. Thanks to a built in lubricant reserve Grohe bathroom taps ceramic cartridges will provide smooth handle action for many years. A special grinding process makes the ceramic discs particularly smooth and the highly elastic ceramic compound used ensures they will be completely drip free and reliable which is essential for bathrooms. Grohe mixers will work as smoothly in bathrooms and effectively as the day you bought them, they really are in a class of their own

BATHROOM TAPS
There are four main finishes for taps and shower.
Chrome, the hardest wearing finish, usually last over 20 years.
Antique Gold, used more on traditional style suites, is generally a soft finish which will last approximately 3 years with day to day use but in a rarely used but in a second bathroom could last as long as 10 years.
Nickel (either brushed or polished) is the softest finish and would normally be for
decorative house bathrooms that are rarely used.
Powder coated, not as common in taps but still used on showers, is where the product is coated with a layer of coloured plastic.
There are many types of tap configuration for baths, basins and bidets. Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. This next section outlines the different types of tap arrangements that are generally available.
Bath Taps
There are several types of tap arrangement you can put on a bath. They are as follows: A pair of taps, a bath filler deck mounted, a bath filler pillar mounted, a three-hole bath filler, a deck mounted bath shower mixer, a pillar mounted bath shower mixer, a four-hole bath shower mixer, a five-hole bath shower mixer, wall mounted filler and an overflow filler.
Pair of bath taps
The most common form of taps for baths, one tap for hot water and one for cold. The cold tap is normally on the right and the hot on the left.
Bath filler deck mounted and bath filler pillar mounted.
This type of tap has the hot and cold-water taps combined onto one mixer block. The deck-mounted type is normally contemporary in style whereas the pillar-mounted type (this is where the mixer is held above the bath rim on two pillars) is normally traditional in style. The advantage of a mixer over a pair of taps is the ability to mix the water to the desired temperature whilst the bath is filling.
Three hole bath filler
This is where the spout is separate to the bath tap valves. In this case you have a hot and cold valve and the spout is mounted either in the centre between the two valves or mounted in the comer.
Bath shower mixers
This is the same as the bath fillers but has a shower hose and handset attached. These types of taps are not designed to be used as showers for standing under and washing your whole body. The reason for this is that there is the real risk that is another person in the house switches on a tap or a washing machine kicks in then the temperature on the shower will change radically. These types of showers are designed for washing hair or rinsing the bath.
Four and five-hole bath shower mixers;
These are the same as the three hole mixers but the four-hole mixers have a handset that sits on the bath with the hose under the bath rim. The shower is switched on by means of a diverter button mounted on the bath spout.
The five hole mixer works in the same way but has a separate diverter mounted on the bath, not on the bath spout.
Wall mounted filler
More popular on the continent, this is where the mixer is mounted on the wall
above the bath and not on the bath rim.
Overflow bath filler
This is similar to the three-hole bath filler but whereas the three hole has a spout the overflow filler has the hot and cold valves on the rim of the bath and the filler is the overflow fitting which also doubles up as the pop up waste.
Basin Taps
As with baths there are several types of tap arrangement that can be fitted to a basin. These are a pair of taps, a mono-bloc mixer and a three tap-hole mixer.
A pair of taps
This is where you have a separate hot and cold tap on the basin with the cold tap usually on the right and the hot on the left. This is the most common configuration for taps on a basin. This type of basin normally has a plug and chain waste.
Basin mono-bloc mixer
This is where the hot and cold taps are mounted on a single tap bloc in the centre of the basin. This type of tap normally has a pop-up waste supplied as part of the tap.
Three tap-hole mixer
As with the bath arrangement you have a spout in the middle and a separate hot and cold valve on either side. This type of arrangement has a pop up waste. On a three tap-hole basin you can also fit a pair of basin taps and in the central hole fit a chain stay basin waste - this is where the plug chain is attached to a disc which fits over the middle hole.