Taps and mixers. Click cartridge technology can save over 5,000 litres of water per year in an average bathroom.
The Ceramix Alto tap offers an appealing combination
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Click technology
Click technology gives you easy control over how much water you want to use.

The user lifts the lever until they feel a slight resistance. This indicates that the fitting is using 50% of its flow. Applying greater pressure results in a click giving 100% flow.
Ceramic disc cartridges
Apart from being annoying, a dripping tap can waste a lot of water over a period of time.

Taps with ceramic disc cartridge control water with impeccable precision. The ceramic disc is extremely durable and eliminates the waste of a dripping tap. A dripping tap that wastes 1 litre of water per hour is the equivalent of wasting 1460 full WC flushes a year.
Flow restrictors
Fitting a water restrictor allows you to control the amount of water a tap uses. Water usage is determined by water pressure and the size of valve in the tap.

So where you have particularly high pressure a tap could be delivering many unnecessary litres of water per minute. Our mixer tap restrictor is designed to give you a maximum of 6 litres of water per minute up to a pressure of 3 bar. The restrictor is screwed onto the tap outlet and has an airated nozzle. This gives the user a fine airated spray of water - both softer to the hand and perfect for quickly lathering with soap.
A flow restrictor fitted to a pillar tap inlet.

A flow restrictor fitted to a
pillar tap inlet.

Water saving with Click technology
The example below shows the water used by running a tap for 2 minutes, twice a day while brushing teeth. Of course we wouldn’t suggest you leave the tap running whilst brushing your teeth!

This chart shows the water used by running a tap for 2 minutes twice a day while brushing teeth.
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