Kitchen sinks and taps

[tim...]

so, you fit a white ceramic or composite sink,

surely you want white taps (as I had previously), not chrome (or any other metal finish)

Does anyone sell white taps anymore?

like bugger they do

tim

[Tim+]

Our friends have a white mixer tap. It hasn?t aged well. Just looks grubby now.

Tim

[GB]

Googling "white kitchen taps" produces quite a lot of results. Are all those out of stock? Admittedly, not very stylish, though.

[tim...]

Online perhaps

I am looking for something that I can pick up from a shed

Though there could be some available in store that aren't profiled in the kitchen catalogues.

Unfortunately, I don't have any stores that don't require me to go out of my way to reach them, so I don't go there just to view.

not much different from what's available in chrome.

Personally I don't want a swan neck tap, but that 80-% of what Wickes offer.

[tim...]

As do the chrome ones if you don't descale them - *frequently*

However hard the white ones are to keep clean, the chrome ones are 10 times harder

tim

[Andy Burns]

Mono mixer do?

local branch here has stock, so it's not an order and collect tomorrow job

[Richard]

John Lewis have a nice one:

Probably a little more than you expect to pay though.

[Andy Burns]

"Available to order"

[tabbypurr]

not that anyone would at that price

[Brian Gaff]

Surely you need colour contrast for health and safety reasons though. How about a black sink and yellow taps. Brian

[spuorgelgoog]

I discovered when washing paint-stripper off my hands that my white kitchen tap is painted.

Well, it was.

Owain

[Brian Reay]

The quality coloured ones are OK but I'm not sure you'll find those in the sheds. When we bought the current house, it had a brown sink and taps. Senior management hated it, plus we needed to swap the kitchen units around, so I replaced it, putting the brown sink in the garage. Its been there 20+ years- used for DIY type sink stuff*. The taps have stood up very well. While I clean them, not to 'kitchen standards', I'm pretty sure they would clean up almost like new. They must be some good make, I dread to think what getting spares will be like if they start leaking.

*paint, cleaning up after working on cars, clean up after making PCBs, ........

[spuorgelgoog]

Interesting idea.

Maybe a white sink, white taps, and white crockery do contribute to the number of chipped bowls.

Owain

[FMurtz]

Same as white sinks.

[spuorgelgoog]

Mine comes up lovely with a bleachy cloth.

Owain

[tim...]

It's got one less digit than I thought it might have :-)

But you are right

I'm not in the market for a 500+ pound tap

200 is too much.

I said to the guy in Wickes today (I went back to revise my sink and tap choices) "It's a tap I'm buying, not a car"! (and he was in full agreement)

But whilst waiting for him to become free, I was looking at how the metal taps contrasted with the grey doors and worktops I had selected and decided that there was a reasonable match, even on a white sink.

So apart from changing it from chrome finish to brushed, for the sake of expediency I'll living with a metal tap.

Unless Howdens come up with a better offer (which I doubt they will be able to given their appliance options and stupid single shelf cupboards!)

tim