Our mission

Buying a tap sounds simple until you actually try to do it. Monobloc or two handle, mixer or separate, chrome or brushed nickel, ceramic disc or traditional washer, enough flow rate for your water system but not so much it sprays everywhere.

Most product pages assume you already know the answers. We didn't think that was fair, so we built a site that explains it properly, in plain English, before you spend your money.

Everything here is written specifically with UK homes in mind: combi boilers, gravity fed systems with a tank in the loft, older properties with imperial pipework sitting alongside newer metric fittings, and the kind of hard water that leaves every chrome tap in the country looking cloudy within a month if you don't know what to do about it.

What you'll find here

We publish honest buying guides covering the questions people actually ask before buying a tap, practical installation advice, and maintenance guides like how to fix a dripping tap or clean limescale off chrome without damaging the finish.

We've also put together top 10 lists for kitchen, bathroom, bath, shower, outdoor, and boiling water taps, each pick chosen and compared on its own merits, not on who paid the most for placement.

How we make money

Some pages on this site contain Amazon affiliate links. If you click through and buy something, we may earn a small commission, though it never changes the price you pay.

This never affects which products we recommend or how we write about them; a tap that performs poorly gets said so regardless of any affiliate arrangement. You can read our full affiliate disclosure for more detail.

A note on accuracy

We do our best to keep every guide accurate and up to date, but plumbing products and standards do change, and we're only human. Where a guide touches on water regulations or safety, we check our facts against bodies like the Water Regulations Advisory Scheme and the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering, rather than relying on guesswork.

If you spot something that's wrong or out of date, we genuinely want to know. Drop us a line through the contact page and we'll look into it.

Get in touch

Whether you've got a question about a specific tap, spotted an error, or think we've missed something worth covering, we'd love to hear from you. Reach us through our contact page any time.