Bathroom taps are essential fixtures when completing the basin and bath. The right taps have the ability to create stunning finishes in this room, but they’re often overlooked in the design process. Yet, bathroom taps can also enhance this space with several fantastic features to improve accessibility and indeed safety for all users.
There are several types of bathroom taps with fantastic finishes and designs available, ensuring the best tap choice for every bathroom. The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best taps for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Installing Bathroom Taps
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When buying new bathroom taps, the type of water pressure system in the home needs to be considered. This will determine whether the taps are compatible. For high-pressure water systems, most bathroom taps are suitable. Yet for those lower-pressure water systems, the focus will be on selecting taps that provide a good strong flow of warm and cold water.
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How many tap holes are in the basin? This will determine how many taps and what type of taps you can install. Those basins with one tap hole can consider single-lever and monobloc taps. Those basins with two tap holes can opt for a variety of pillar tap designs. There’s also the possibility of installing wall-mounted taps over the basin and a floor-mounted tap over the bath.
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Which bathroom taps are best for your circumstances and who will be using them? If any users have specific needs, you may need to consider taps that can be easily accessed. For example, for those homes with young children, features such as cold start technology, and anti-scald device controls increase safety. And, for those users with limited mobility, taps offering soft-turn technology can offer more control over the water flow.
The Styles of Bathroom Taps
Modern Taps:
Modern tap choices offer an element of style in their design, with their strong, striking angular shapes, making them ideal choices for contemporary bathrooms. With such stylish profiles, modern taps are often considered statement, focal, or accent pieces that can complement much of the bathroom décor.
Traditional Taps:
Traditional tap choices boast many typical classical features. Adding an element of charm to the bathroom, the distinctive features of traditional taps usually feature knob and cross-head styles. Traditional taps are perfect for enhancing a period-style bathroom décor or simply adding stand-out fixtures.
The Types of Bathroom Taps
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Bathroom Mixer Taps
In a mixer tap, the water is mixed in the spout to control the temperature and the flow of both hot and cold water from one handle, rather than separately, and is used in both baths and basins.
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Bathroom Monobloc Taps
Similar to a mixer tap, monobloc taps have a single spout design that works to deliver a mixture of hot and cold water. A single lever handle here controls the flow and temperature of the water.
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Bathroom Pillar Taps
Pillar taps come in pairs with one tap controlling the hot and the other controlling the cold water. Considered the easiest to fit, they’re also an inexpensive option for many.
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Bath Filler Taps
A bath filler tap is one bar featuring two connected taps and a shared water outlet. The hot and cold water is mixed in the bar to flow at the desired temperature.
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Bathroom Wall Mounted Taps
Commonly used with furniture basins, wall mounted taps fit to the wall to create a more streamlined and modern look. Wall mounted taps are usually used for those basins without tap holes.
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Bathroom Floor Mounted Taps
Working in the same way as a bathroom mixer tap, a floor mounted tap is secured to the floor with the pipework running through the floor. These taps are most commonly used with freestanding baths.
High-Quality Bathroom Taps
The Bathroom Showroom has an outstanding selection of bathroom taps. From modern to traditional, we offer a wide range of types including mixer, monobloc, pillar, filler, wall mounted, and floor mounted to suit all basins and baths. Our superb tap brands include iflo, Methven, Bristan, Roca, Abode, Crosswater, and Heritage.
If you're looking to shop bathroom taps for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.