Kartell K-VIT Klassique Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP107KL)

Kartell K-VIT Klassique Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP107KL)

The Kartell K-VIT Klassique range is traditional styling done without fuss — crosshead handles on a rounded body, in polished chrome, with ceramic HOT and COLD indices. Kartell call it "a brassware range with grace", and it is the one to pick for a period property, a cottage, or a bathroom where you want warmth rather than minimalism.

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. On a traditional tap it's the cleaner look — no modern hose trailing over the rim to undercut the period feel.

A bath shower mixer adds a diverter and handset. If you need to shower over the bath, pick that instead.

Before you order

This is a two tap hole deck-mounted filler, the standard arrangement on most baths.

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.

At 3.07kg this is a heavy fitting — solid brass rather than thin castings. Worth checking your bath rim can take it, particularly on a thin acrylic bath without a reinforcing plate.

Water pressure

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

Traditional look, modern mechanism

The thing that makes Klassique worth having over genuinely old taps: ceramic disc cartridges with quarter-turn operation. Traditional crosshead taps were the classic dripper, needing a new washer every couple of years. Ceramic discs don't perish, so you get the period look without the period maintenance.

Where it suits

Klassique pairs naturally with traditional sanitaryware and roll-top baths.

The rest of the Klassique range

The range also includes a mono basin mixer with click waste, a pair of basin pillar taps, a pair of bath pillar taps and a bath shower mixer.

Specification

• Code: TAP107KL
• Polished chrome, gloss finish
• Solid brass construction
• Traditional crosshead handles
• Ceramic disc cartridges, quarter turn operation
• Deck mounted, two tap holes
• 3/4" BSP connections
• Suitable for low water pressure systems
• Weight 3.07kg
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• 5 year guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5055681443283

Downloads

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