Choosing a Tap for Your Home

Posted on 21 May, 2022 by 2Magpies

​For most people, a tap is a conduit to allow water to flow through and nothing more. The tap, however, is engineered and designed to do more than that. Taps are built to withstand the constant exposure to water and salts, yet, perform with efficiency, while enhancing the aesthetic beauty of your kitchen or bath. Choosing a tap which blends in with the interiors of your house and serves your kitchen or bath effectively, can be quite a task. Buy Franke Kitchen Sinks

If it is a kitchen tap you are looking to purchase, there are many options available today in the market. A kitchen tap should be sturdy in design, since it is the most overused tap, especially by keen cooks. The tap should ideally be constructed of stainless steel, since it offers ease in cleaning and maintenance. Stainless steel is also considered hygienic, since it demonstrates anti-bacterial properties, which make it an ideal choice in a clean kitchen. Kitchen taps made of Chrome have also grown popular in recent times. Chrome enhances the external beauty of the taps, by adding more sparkle, while retaining the sturdiness and ease of maintenance of stainless steel.

A kitchen tap should offer a perfect balance between design and working. A swivel motion in a kitchen tap is much appreciated by those working in the kitchen, since it makes it easier to switch between two sinks, as compared to a fixed tap. A single mixer kitchen tap is good enough for a cook, who does not have many soiled pots and pans to be cleaned on a daily basis. A double mixer kitchen tap, with two spouts is useful when the cook requires, for instance, cleaning vessels in one sink while his vegetables are being washed in another. A mixer spout is also useful when washing freshly cut vegetables or washing salad leaves, where moving the hand around the veggies, ensures superior cleaning. Franke Kitchen Sink Online Store

Bath taps these days, offer much more variety in terms of style and functionality, to enhance the aesthetics of your bathroom décor, while offering you the luxury of a relaxing bath. Bath taps can be either standing or wall mounted. Wall mounted bath taps, again, come in three main categories: Lever Taps, Mixer Taps and Screw down Taps. Lever taps are a utilitarian option and are very easy to use. There are two levers which separate the hot water from the cold water. At any given time, you can switch over to a flow of water of either temperature, or have a mix of both by adjusting the lever. A mixer tap, is designed such that the water flow and the temperature are controlled through just one lever, while the water flows only out of one faucet. Such a tap offers the luxury of bathing in optimum temperature after adjusting the mixer just once. Screw down taps are the most common kind of taps, that we might have come across, which consists of two separate faucets, each for hot and cold water, which can be screwed up or down to control the flow of water.

Bathroom taps are available in a variety of styles and finishes to complement the look and feel of your bathroom. Like Kitchen Taps, bath taps also are mostly made of stainless steel or chrome. However, there are other materials available, such as porcelain, which are gaining popularity since they offer the freedom, to experiment with the décor of the bath. Buy Kitchen Sinks in Perth

When buying a tap, you need to take everything into consideration - the sink, the bath tub, the curtains, the rails and in case of the kitchen, the cupboards, tiles and the kitchen sink itself. A tap, be it a kitchen tap or a bath tap cannot be treated as a separate entity. It is one of the elements that bind the whole look, feel and working of your kitchen, or bath, as the case maybe and works toward enhancing its functionality. Finally, investing in a good quality tap, with the manufacturer's warranty, only goes on to reinforce the confidence that the manufacturer has in his product for the years to come.