An essential part of your kitchen and bathroom, you wouldn’t think the tap could come in so more different variant.
There are following taps are available in market:
- Pillar taps
The more traditional style, pillar taps are the classic “hot as well as cold” style –two separated taps, one for each temperature.
- Mixture taps
Mixer taps have two different handles one for hot and another is for clod –like a pillar taps-but the supplies are mixed inside the tap and the water comes from one no Zale.
- Mon blocs
Mon bloc taps operate in a similar way to mixer taps, in that the hot and cold water supplies are mixed inside the tap but the temperature and flow is controlled with just one handle –twisting it to the left or right regulated the temperature.
Mechanisms
Washers
Compression washer taps are the oldest mechanism applicable and always come in the form of pillar taps. Twisting the handle causes a washer to move up and down which check how much water flows through.
Disc taps
Disc taps are Mon blocs with a wide, cylindrical shape containing two ceramics discs inside each disc has a hole that allows water to pass through when both are aligned. Reason of the easy on and off method they want required more tuning to achieve full power.
Ball taps
Ball taps are Mon blocs with rounded shapes, as they contain a hollow ball which, when moved controls water temperature as well as power. This allows for the more controls over water flow but is also the more prone to leaking.
Cartridge taps
Cartridge taps can be either Mon blocs or mixers. They contain cartridge which move from left to right to control temperature and up as well as down to control flow strength.
Pressure
More taps will work fine whatever your water pressure is at home but some –generally single lever taps –will required a high pressure in order to work properly, mixer taps with two levers on the other hand will just need the pressure for the hot as well as cold water supplies to be equal.
