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Taps and showers wear out fast in older homes. We fix the everyday stuff. Send us a WhatsApp photo first.

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Why buy your taps and showers from us

About the taps and showers in this range

Every fitting here does one job. It controls your water at the tap, the shower or the supply line. That means pressure, temperature or quality. Some sort out comfort in the bathroom. Others protect the whole house at the point where the water comes in.

Most people arrive with a symptom, not a part. A mixer that drips long after you've turned it off. A shower that scalds you the moment someone flushes. A stopcock seized solid after years of never being touched. Each of those points to a different fitting. So the first job is matching the problem to the part.

Bathroom and kitchen fittings are about daily use. If your shower runs hot then cold as the pressure shifts, you want temperature that holds steady on its own. If your old basin tap has gone stiff and marks the wall around it, a cleaner wall-mounted option gives you more room at the sink. A single-lever kitchen tap suits one-handed use when your other hand is full.

Some fittings save money quietly. A shower head that uses less water still gives you a proper wash. That matters when the geyser is working against a tight budget. Out in the garden, a tap you can lock keeps the water yours.

Supply-line parts are the ones nobody thinks about until they fail. A brass stopcock that actually turns when you need to kill the water. A pair of angle valves so you can isolate one tap without draining the house. In pre-1980 homes around the South Peninsula, these are often the original fittings, tired and brittle.

Not sure which one is yours? Send us a photo on WhatsApp. We'll tell you which fitting is actually worn, not just which one looks the part. The price we quote off that photo is the price on your invoice. That's how you get the right part first, with no surprise at the end. For wider background, see expert guidance on Taps and showers.

Frequently asked questions

What's the real difference between a thermostatic shower mixer and a normal one and does Cape Town water pressure matter?

A normal mixer sets flow, so a flush down the road still gives you a jolt of heat or cold. A thermostatic one holds the temperature steady on its own, because it reacts to changes in supply pressure instead of passing them on to you. In older South Peninsula homes with uneven pressure, that steadiness is the whole reason to upgrade. Send a photo of your current setup on WhatsApp and we'll tell you if your pipework suits a thermostatic swap.

Do you only supply the fittings, or do you fit the tap as well?

We fit it. A fitting on its own does nothing for a dripping mixer or a seized stopcock, so our visit covers removing the old part and installing the new one. We work off the photo you send us, so the fitting we bring is already matched to the fault before we knock on your door.

Once you start, how long am I without a working shower?

Most tap and shower swaps are a few hours' work, because the fitting is already chosen and in hand before we arrive. A supply-line job, like replacing a stopcock, can mean the water is off at the mains for a short stretch while we work. We'll tell you what to expect for your specific fix once we've seen the photo, so there's no guessing on the day.

Will I get overcharged for something small, like swapping a tap?

We quote off the photo you send and that figure is what lands on the invoice. A small job, like a basin tap, gets priced as a small job because we're matching the part to the actual fault, not padding the visit. If the fitting turns out to be simpler than expected once we're inside the wall, we'd rather fit less and charge less than talk you into something bigger.

Could I end up with a big invoice for work that still doesn't fix the problem?

That's the exact worry we built our photo-first process to stop. We identify which part is actually worn before we arrive, rather than guessing on site, so the fitting we bring is the one that solves the fault. If a repeat callout is ever needed because the wrong symptom was chasing the wrong part, we'd rather sort that out with you directly than leave you carrying a second bill for the same problem.

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Not sure if you want a mixer or two taps? Tell us the fitting you have and we'll point you to the tap or shower that fits first time, so you order the right part and skip the return trip.

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