Taps you can turn witha closed fist.
Quarter-turn lever handles for basins, sinks, wall sets, and garden taps — a push instead of a grip and a twist, fitted by licensed plumbers.
Gripping and twisting iswhat goes first.
A conventional tap asks for two things at once: enough grip to hold a smooth handle, and enough wrist rotation to turn it most of a full revolution. Arthritis, a stroke, Parkinson’s, and simple age all take those away well before they take away anything else.
People manage around it for a long time before they mention it — using a tea towel for grip, turning the tap with two hands, or leaving it running rather than facing turning it back on. By the time somebody says something, it has usually been difficult for years.
A lever needs a push. It can be worked with a closed fist, the side of a hand, a forearm, or an elbow, and a quarter turn takes it from off to full. It is one of the least expensive changes we make and one of the few that people notice every single day.
Types oflever taps.
The same idea in six fittings. Which you need depends on what is there now, not on preference.
Wall tap handle set
Lever handles for wall-mounted taps in bathrooms and laundries. Replaces the handles on the tap bodies already in the wall, so no tiling is disturbed.
Sink tap handle set
Lever handles for the taps on a kitchen or laundry sink. Usually the second thing people ask for after the bathroom, and often the one that mattered more.
Bib tap handle set
Levers for bib taps — the exposed taps over a laundry trough or on an outside wall. A quarter turn from off to full, which is far easier with wet or cold hands.
Complete vanity set and spout
Where the existing tap bodies are too old or too worn to take a new handle set, the whole thing is replaced — levers and spout together, as one clean fitting.
Mixer taps
A single lever controlling hot, cold, and flow from one outlet, which is the easiest of all to operate one-handed. Quoted case by case, because compatibility depends on the existing set-up.
Garden lever tap
For the outside tap. Turning a stiff garden tap is a two-handed job at the best of times, and it is usually the last one anyone thinks to change.
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Who we fitthese for.
Anyone with arthritis or reduced grip
The single commonest reason we are asked. Gripping and twisting is the exact movement it takes away.
People working one-handed
After a stroke, or with one arm occupied holding a frame or a rail. A lever can be pushed with whatever is free.
Carers and family
A tap that can be worked with a forearm matters when both hands are busy with somebody else.
Households planning ahead
It costs very little more to fit levers when a bathroom or kitchen is being done anyway, and it saves doing it twice.
Before you book,two things to know.
It usually damages nothing at all
A handle set replaces the handles on the tap bodies already fitted. No drilling, no tiling disturbed, no structural work — which makes it the easiest thing on this site to get agreed in a rental, and reversible if you ever wanted the old handles back.
Send us a photograph first
Tap fittings and spacings vary enormously, and a photograph emailed to us is usually enough to quote the right item without a visit. It is the single best thing you can do to avoid a second trip.
Sometimes the bodies have to go too
Where the existing tap bodies are worn, seized, or too old to take a new handle set, the whole tap is replaced instead. We will tell you which yours is from the photograph, not on the day.
It is licensed plumbing work
Carried out by a licensed plumber and certified, as all tapware work has to be.
Specificationsand brochures.
The line drawings an occupational therapist or a plumber usually needs. We are preparing these now — ring or email in the meantime and we will send what you need.
Product line drawings
- Quarter-turn lever tap — basin setComing soon
- Quarter-turn lever tap — wall setComing soon
- Quarter-turn lever tap — bib tapComing soon
- Quarter-turn lever tap — vanity set and spoutComing soon
Product brochures
- Quarter-turn lever tapsComing soon
Quote request requirements
- Lever taps — what we need to quoteComing soon
How the jobactually runs.
Quoting
A photograph of your existing taps is usually all we need. Quoted to the occupational therapist’s specification where there is one, and funding approved before we start.
On-site consultation and installation
A licensed plumber comes out and carries out the changeover. Most tap jobs are a single visit and the water is back on the same day.
Warranty
The work is carried out by licensed tradespeople and backed by the relevant warranties. If something is not right, ring the same number you rang the first time.
A lever does not makethe water safe.
It makes the tap easier to turn, which is a different problem from what comes out of it. Where someone’s skin sensation has changed, an easier tap can even make a scald more likely, because it is now quicker to reach full hot.
A tempering valve caps the temperature at the source, before it ever reaches the tap. We usually fit both together.
Questions
What people ask aboutlever taps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you change just the handles, or does the whole tap go?
Will this work in a rental?
Are lever taps easier than a mixer?
Can you do the kitchen and laundry as well as the bathroom?
What about the outside tap?
Can’t see your question? Call us on +61 3 8658 1358 — we’re happy to talk it through.
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