Sinks & Taps for Kitchen

bigpappa

Just after something that is stainless steel and is high quality, same goes with the tap.

Where is the best place to buy these - the longer the guarantee the better the product?

daivid

The guarentee will come from the manufacturer so won't matter where you buy. For the best price go online, for face to face advice and a good price go to a local plumbers merchants.

As for high quality, that is subjective. I have a franke sink and a bristan tap which I think are good but certainly could be better, some will be happy with cheaper, others would spend many times more for the quality they want.

cranford

I had an Abode Ludlow for 15 years when the chrome started to go but nothing wrong with the tap. I bought the same one last year for about £125 but Amazon are now doing it for £108. Kept to the same one as I was able to buy a new filter for the old one as I broke it! and spares seem easy to obtain. The new one had a faulty valve but Abode sent me a new one next day.
We gave up on SS sinks about 10 years ago and now have composite.

Owain_Moneysaver

Taps, Aldi when they have them.Very solid and heavy.

EssexExile

daivid wrote: »

As for high quality, that is subjective. I have a franke sink and a bristan tap which I think are good but certainly could be better, some will be happy with cheaper, others would spend many times more for the quality they want.

We've had Franke sinks & taps in for about 15 years. Had to replace the cartridges in one tap recently, other than that all is well.

Davesnave

Franke Ascona is the standard middle of the road choice for a ss sink, but there are much flashier alternatives available. I bought a very lightly damaged one on eBay for £40 and fitted it in the utility room. Now I've another ready to go into the kitchen, because we hate the too-shallow Blanco we fitted there.


The Ascona taps get reasonable reviews too, but I've gone with a Grohe, having found the Franke Zurich very poor. While that's been solved by fitting a £3 aerator to it, they shouldn't have produced such a naff tap in the first place!

keith969

Franke make great stainless steel sinks. They are a pain to keep clean though - I'd go white porcelain next time.

theonlywayisup

Grohe. We converted our barn (15 years ago) and the taps/showers are all Grohe - they still look like new. They never drip and have the smoothest of actions.

mrschaucer

Another vote for Grohe. So disappointed with our Franke sink and the (expensive) Franke tap was the absolute pits.