Kartell K-VIT Mirage Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP252MI)

Kartell K-VIT Mirage Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP252MI)

The Kartell K-VIT Mirage range is slim, softly curved and understated — a rounded body with a single lever, in polished chrome. Kartell describe it as creating "an air of calm with its curvaceous design", and that is about right: it is the range to pick when you want the taps to settle into the room rather than announce themselves.

This is the bath filler: a deck-mounted tap that sits on the rim of the bath and fills it, with no shower function.

Bath filler or bath shower mixer?

A bath filler (this one) just fills the bath. Choose it where you have a separate shower, or no shower over the bath at all.

A bath shower mixer adds a diverter and handset so you can shower over the bath. It's a small step up in price and the two are otherwise the same tap — so if there's any chance you'll want to rinse hair or clean the bath with a handset, it's worth the difference.

Before you order

Bath fillers use 3/4" BSP connections — larger than the 1/2" on basin taps — because a bath needs to fill in reasonable time. Check your existing tails, as swapping between sizes needs adaptors.

The waste is sold separately. A bath needs a waste and overflow set, which isn't included — unlike the Mirage basin mixers, which both come with a click waste.

Water pressure

Suitable for low pressure systems, though on gravity-fed plumbing any bath tap fills slowly. That's the system, not the tap.

Living with it

The ceramic disc cartridge with quarter-turn operation gives full flow from a small movement of the lever, and is far less prone to dripping than a washer tap.

A plain rounded chrome body has no corners for limescale to collect in.

The rest of the Mirage range

The range also includes a mini mono basin mixer with click waste, a mono basin mixer with click waste and a bath shower mixer.

Specification

• Code: TAP252MI
• Polished chrome, gloss finish
• Solid brass construction
• Slim curved body
• Ceramic disc cartridge, quarter turn operation
• Deck mounted, two tap holes
• 3/4" BSP connections
• Suitable for low water pressure systems
• Weight 2.4kg
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• Lifetime guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5055681438265

Downloads

Download the technical data sheet