Discover our premium range of kitchen mixer taps, designed for both functionality and style. Whether you need a tap with a pull-out spray for convenience or a sleek design to complement your kitchen, we have the perfect solution for you. Explore our collection and enhance your kitchen experience with BLANCO.
Transform Your Kitchen with a Pull-Out Hose Faucet
Filling watering cans or large pots with water and then having to hoist the heavy containers out of the sink is extremely laborious. Once you’ve been able to do this comfortably outside the bowl using the pull-out hose, you won’t want to be without this pull-out feature of the single-lever mixer tap. Simply place the vase beside the bowl and fill it with water right there. The adjustable pull-out spray also makes it easier to lift any stuck remains from large pots using direct water pressure.
Clean the corners of the bowl more easily. This is particularly important when choosing a mixer tap where you can change the spray function. A powerful spray for cleaning, and a gentler stream for delicate fruit and vegetables. Voilà! Once you opt for a hose, there’s no going back. The semi-professional mixer tap with a stainless steel spray is particularly appealing. Not only does it look good, but its professional features also free up time for you to cook together with your children or partner.
However, the mixer tap with pull-out hose can often only be turned 140 degrees. This is in contrast with mixer taps with a normal solid spout. They turn easily around upon themselves, by 360 degrees. This allows you to shift baking trays, large pots and other cumbersome objects that need rinsing easily around the bowl, without clattering them together. Simply twist the mixer tap back to get the water running.
Into the depths – your sink can also be installed facing a window
Do you like gazing out with a smile at robins revelling in the birdbath outside the window, fluffing up their feathers? It’s great that your sink affords you that view. But what do you do if you want to open the window? Doesn’t the mixer tap get in the way? Not at all. You simply lower it. The retractable mixer tap is lowered into the sink, making it easy to open the window. Or you can take it off altogether and put it back on the sink once you’ve aired it out. Enjoy looking out at those cheeky little birds.
Coloured mixer taps for Silgranit and Ceramic sinks
We are always going back to our designs for BLANCO mixer taps and combining aesthetic appeal with functionality. Round is combined with angular, maintaining a delicate balance. We hold no truck with wacky styles; instead, we’re all about timeless elegance. After all, this is what you like best, too. Boring? Hardly! Play with colours. Combine your fittings with the colour of your Silgranit or Ceramic sink. Perfectly matching mixer tap colours allow you to give your sink station a seamless look.
Mixer taps come in a whole host of different designs
What’s it going to be? An L, F or U – which shape do you fancy? Classically striking or softly rounded in a U-shape? Is your kitchen on the small side? Your mixer tap makes a discreet addition, firmly fixed to the edge of the sink, appearing unobtrusive. It looks like an F with its lever above the solid spout.
The mixer tap in an upside-down L-shape offers much more room beneath. It is easy to place a large pot beneath it, without it getting caught. The same applies to soft, arched mixer taps in an inverted U-shape. If necessary, this would even allow your child to wash their feet in it after playing in the sandpit. It stands on the edge of your sink, a high, sweeping arc. An eye-catching feature to fulfil your heart’s desire. Fresh delight every day. The very large U-shaped mixer taps bring the chic of a professional kitchen right into your home. Fashionable and striking.
Questions about mixer taps
Generally speaking, our mixer taps are easy-care and hygienic. This is thanks to their smooth surface, which allows hardly any dirt to settle on it. However, mixer taps do benefit from regularly cleaning. It doesn’t take much effort, but it needs to be done frequently. Take a mild cleaning agent and go over the mixer taps a few times with the soft side of a sponge. Now rub them dry with a microfibre cloth, and you’ll see that your mixer taps are back to being a stand-out feature of your kitchen once again, in just a few simple steps.
If your low-pressure mixer tap is dripping slightly, there’s no need to get a plumber in right away. This is completely normal. The reason is that low-pressure mixer taps are normally connected to a boiler. If you have used some warm water, cold water will flow into the boiler to be heated up. The rise in temperature means that the water in the pipe expands. As a result, the rising water pressure causes a small amount of water to be pushed into the mixer tap, where a few drops will escape.
Most people will need a high-pressure mixer tap in their home. This is always the case if the water is heated by the central water supply. You can tell whether applies to you if your kitchen has a wall valve for both cold and warm water pipes. You will therefore need a mixer tap that can handle the high water pressure from the pipes. Sometimes, however, your flat or house many not have a central hot water supply. In this case, the water will be heated by a boiler or flow heater. If your home has a flow heater for warm water, you will also need a high pressure mixer tap. A low-pressure mixer tap is required if your warm water is supplied via a boiler. This minimises the pressure from the water pipe and conducts the water at a much lower pressure into the boiler.
Our pull-out sprays make your everyday life a little easier. They allow you to get the water to the part of the sink where it is actually needed. Flexible and effective. As such, our hoses are designed for constant movement. Just make sure that the hose does not develop any kinks. This can damage it, causing it to start dripping.
If the hose is no longer gliding smoothly back into the body of the tap, this doesn’t mean that you’ve done something wrong. Simply apply a little mixer tap lubricant as soon as the first signs start to show. That should do the trick. The hose will then glide back into place quickly and directly, just as it did before.
Imagine standing in the sunshine at the kitchen window and calmly doing the washing up. Our mixer taps make this possible. Just take a look at our detachable, lowerable or collapsible mixer taps. These three concepts allow you to open the window on the other side of your sink easily and in only a few steps.
A spraying mixer tap gets water everywhere, not just in the sink bowl. This is usually caused by limescale that has accumulated in the mixer tap. Instead of reaching straight for an aggressive cleaning agent, adding a little citric acid or vinegar to your cleaning water should solve the problem.
To clean it, wipe the fine mesh attached to the tap outlet clean. Go over it again with a soft microfibre cloth. The trick to preventing a spraying mixer tap is to clean it regularly, so limescale doesn’t get the chance to build up.
Splish, splash: a dripping tap is very annoying. However, there’s no need for agitation. This is either due to limescale deposits in the mixer tap cartridge, or the seals are no longer fit for purpose. Unless you’re very adept at DIY and have a well-equipped toolbox, it’s best to call a sanitary specialist to deal with this. If you’re up to handling it yourself, clean any calcified areas of the seals or mixer tap with citric acid or vinegar. If the seal has become porous it should be replaced using the right tool. Once that’s done, everything in your kitchen will be back in order again.
