To get waterfall taps in my new bathroom?

[justlliloleme]

Finally getting rid of our crappy 20 year old bathroom. Went to chose everything today & choose waterfall taps for the basin & bath.

People are now telling me they’re rubbish, they dribble, they’re a nightmare to keep clean are a few comments.

Are they that bad? Should I change my mind?

YABU - get rid of the waterfall taps
YANBU - keep the waterfall taps

We've had ours for about 8 years, absolutely love them and are often complimented on them! No they don't come up perfectly clean but still look fine and perfectly useable!!
Be bold and go for them!

Thanks everyone. I think I’m going to give them a call tomorrow & change them to regular taps. They seem more trouble than they’re worth. I know many of you have had no trouble but I’m not taking the risk 😬
Thanks again 😘

To be absolutely fair, if you live somewhere with very hard water, WHATEVER tap you use will get limescale marks, as will absolutely everything else.

Signed Someone on the North York Moors who has to scrape limescale off the entire bathroom.

We live in hard water area, love ours. Never had an issue, we just clean them

its your bathroom, you're the one paying and will probably be the one cleaning unless you have a cleaner. do what you want, not what people tell you. I say go for it.

Absolutely love ours 😍

We’ve got ones like those lower ones. Love them. We have softened water but I can’t see why they’d be more trouble than any other tap and they’re easy to wipe clean.

I wouldn’t with a small child, or one like my middle son, who even at the age of 13 would be guaranteed to lick the waterfall bit!

I have taps like the second ones. I love them but you do need a straw cleaner or something similar to shove up them to clean, otherwise you get black stuff clogging them up and coming out if you don't use the taps often. I don't have an issue with the two sink ones but because we all shower, on the odd occasion I have a bath this can sometimes happen!

I've had mine for 10 years and no problems, soft water area.

I managed to misread this as "we had continually warm gussets". Similar outcome I suppose! Back to Specsavers for me.

Love ours but we are in a very soft water area

Had to replace ours within the first year. Never again.

We’ve had them for 13 years without any problems at all.

Soft water area here, no issues with limescale at all here, but ours have v sharp edges, worth bearing in mind if you have little ones in the bath. Also be aware that once in, they can be very awkward to replace with the same footprint.

I have one. I didn’t listen, impossible to keep clean, limescale, and now dated. Lots of great options but a waterfall tap isn’t one of them.

What is the point of them?

They dispense water. 🙄

If you're in a very soft water area you will be fine. We moved to the West Midlands from London ten years ago and I think I still have the bottle of Viakal that we moved with. We haven't needed it once, nor have we ever needed to descale the kettle!

I don’t understand the hate folks have for them or the issues , I’ve one for thr bath, a floor standing chrome one and one on the bathroom sink, never had an issue, no dribbling, no leaking, and to be honest, the cleaner cleans them once a week I guess, I don’t watch her, but she cleans the bathroom, she doesn’t use lime scale remover, and we live in a very hard water area. I never clean them. And both totally fine, none of the issues mentioned, and been there about 5 years.

We had them in our last bathroom and really liked them. We had no issues with them at all. I'd have had similar again but the bathroom place we went to didn't have any I liked.

However check your water and water pressure first. Some require a certain level of water pressure to work properly.

We don't have limescale issues here so never had that issue either.

To be fair most things date to an extent and waterfall taps have been around for several years already now, and still available - so it's not like they are some quick new fad,

We had them and I hated them. Cleaning taps isn't on my list of priorities and they looked bloody awful. DH had tried to tell me they weren't a good idea but I knew best! We ended up changing them for normal taps and he managed to hold back from saying 'I told you so'!

Same. Had our fitted bathroom for four years and love waterfall tap for wash hand basin and bath. Never had any problems. Easy to clean. Very soft water area.

Mines very hard water. Never had an issue. I’m a little bemused folks do.