Recent content by Catherine Barber

Hello, I'm Catbar who hasn't visited this forum for awhile. I'm needing to replace my current kitchen sink taps, and am looking out for suitably tall upstands, with compatible lever-handled bib taps. I want kitchen taps that are as tall as possible, but most standard British taps seem only...

Actually - I may not have made this clear - but I'm looking into getting lever-handled kitchen bib taps with upstands/standpipes, as I really love the look of these, and they also look nice and tall. I had a concern that problems might develop with the upstand being constantly flexed by the...

Yes, they certainly built things to last, back then. Now it's all built-in obsolescence - just to make you spend more money to have to buy new things, because, I'm told, it keeps 'the economy' going(!). Meanwhile, our landfills just keep on getting bigger. Thanks too for all the other...

Ah - ceramic discs! That was something I was rather keen to have as well, as I liked the idea of quarter-turn taps. Actually, I have had to have the rubber washers on my existing kitchen taps changed about 3 or 4 times in the last 33 years that Ive lived in my flat, so maybe it'd be no...

Many thanks John for your helpful reply! Am I right that when you said 'the complete cartridge needs replacing when they go wrong' you were meaning just the cartridge needed replacing, and not the whole lever-tap-head that would need replacing....? No - I wouldn't touch those rubbishy...

Well..... hope I've done this right, and you can find the photo of my existing taps (including their measurements). It all looked very uncertain to me. Let me know if nothing's come through - I'm a bit new to uploading photos!

Thanks so much for your helpful replies, Rob and Andrew! My sink is stainless-steel. Yes, I want to have standalone lever-handled pillar taps or lever-handled bib taps with upstands/standpipes. I'm also looking out for taps that are as tall, or taller than, my existing pillar taps, which...

I've been told that the Upstands of Lever-handled Kitchen Bib taps could develop stress/flexing problems with time, after the Lever handle has been operated (pushed and pulled) a great number of times? Has anyone experienced a problem with this? (It's only Kitchen Bib taps that I'm interested...