Kartell K-VIT Nero Round Freestanding Bath Shower Mixer – Matt Black (TAP413NR)

Kartell K-VIT Nero Round Freestanding Bath Shower Mixer – Matt Black (TAP413NR)

The Kartell K-VIT Nero Round range is slim, round and minimal in matt black — cylindrical bodies, thin stick levers and no ornamentation.

This is the freestanding bath shower mixer — a floor-mounted tap on a tall column, designed to stand beside a freestanding bath rather than sit on its rim.

This needs planning before the floor goes down

A freestanding bath usually has no tap holes at all, so the tap has to come from somewhere else. This one rises from the floor on a single column, with a curved spout reaching over the rim and a shower handset on a hose.

The important part: it is plumbed up through the floor, so the pipework has to be run and the position fixed before you tile or board. Getting it wrong is not a matter of moving the tap a few inches later — it means lifting the floor. Measure carefully from the bath, and if the bath hasn't been chosen yet, choose it first.

It is a substantial piece of metalwork at 3.68kg, and it gets leaned on and pulled at by the handset, so it needs solid fixing into the floor structure rather than just into a board.

Water pressure

Kartell rate this tap for pressures between 1 and 5 bar. The 1 bar minimum is the point to watch: a gravity-fed tank and cylinder will rarely reach it without a pump, so this one is for mains, combi or unvented systems.

That 1 bar minimum is worth taking seriously on this one in particular: the water has a long way to climb up the column, so a system that is already marginal will disappoint.

Before you order

The waste is sold separately. Freestanding baths usually need a specific waste and often a floor-routed trap, so factor that in.

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.

Matt black is a powder-coated finish rather than plating. It looks superb against a white basin, but it is less forgiving than chrome: limescale and toothpaste splashes show as pale marks on a dark surface, so it wants wiping down more often. Never use an abrasive cream or a limescale remover on it — those strip the coating rather than the deposit.

The same tap in other finishes

Nero Round is the matt black version of a design Kartell also make in polished chrome as Kore and in brushed brass as Ottone. Same shapes, same mechanism — the finish is the only difference.

The chrome equivalent is the Kore freestanding bath shower mixer and the brushed brass one is the Ottone freestanding bath shower mixer.

Specification

• Code: TAP413NR
• Matt black finish
• Solid brass construction
• Floor mounted freestanding column
• Ceramic disc cartridge, quarter turn operation
• Integrated diverter, shower handset and hose included
• Suitable for pressures between 1 and 5 bar
• Projection 296mm, weight 3.68kg
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• Lifetime guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5055681470449

Downloads

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