Kartell K-VIT Visage Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP272VIJ)

Kartell K-VIT Visage Bath Filler – Chrome (TAP272VIJ)

The Kartell K-VIT Visage range is all soft curves and rounded edges — no hard corners anywhere on it. Kartell describe it as "effortlessly elegant with an air of serenity", and it is the least assertive shape in the brassware catalogue: a classic finishing touch rather than a statement piece. If the rest of the room is doing the talking, these are the taps that will not argue with it.

This is the bath filler: a deck-mounted tap that sits on the rim of the bath and fills it, with no shower function. Two rounded lever handles either side of a broad, flattened spout.

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.

The Visage bath shower mixer adds a diverter and a handset on a hose so you can shower over the bath. It is a step up in price and otherwise the same tap.

Before you order

This is a two tap hole deck-mounted filler, so it needs a bath drilled for two — 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 is not included — unlike the Visage basin mixer, which comes with a click waste.

Water pressure

Kartell rate this tap suitable for low water pressure systems — it will run from as little as 0.2 bar. That means it works on a gravity-fed tank and cylinder as well as on mains, combi or unvented pressure.

On gravity-fed plumbing any bath tap fills slowly. That is 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.

Polished chrome on a rounded body is about the easiest thing in a bathroom to keep clean — there are no corners for limescale to lodge in, and a wipe with a soft damp cloth is all it needs. What it will not take is abrasives: cream cleaners, scouring pads and strong limescale removers cut through the plating, and dull chrome cannot be brought back.

The rest of the Visage 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: TAP272VIJ
• Polished chrome, gloss finish
• Solid brass construction
• Rounded body, two lever handles
• Ceramic disc cartridges, quarter turn operation
• Deck mounted, two tap holes
• 3/4" BSP connections
• Suitable for low water pressure systems
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• Lifetime guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5055681449865