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This is the website, they say, where the ‘trade’ buys. That means there’s a lot happening on the site. It’s very busy with offers and advertisements, but it’s easy enough to find what you want for all that. The categories in the menu are straightforward and the tabs will take you quickly to your destination. There’s a ‘Help’ tab as well to take you to customer services if you need a question answered on their selection of basin taps. There are also links to ordering online, secure ordering, payment options and privacy.

Shopping for bathroom basin taps on the Argos website is an easy procedure as there are a number of brands to choose from and a useful breadth of prices from ‘value’ items to more expensive traditional bridge sink mixer taps. There is a lesser range of kitchen items. It’s a fairly busy site but easy enough to navigate with items clearly set out. And there are extra products online that don’t exist in branches – lever operated contemporary basin taps, for instance. You have to go to ‘Home and Furniture’ to find bathroom taps but ‘Garden and DIY’ to find kitchen ones. But as you’ll probably want one or the other rather than both that’s not a problem.

Focus is a well-known high street DIY outlet that provides a basic range of products at reasonable prices. As you’d expect the website is quite busy with a lot of offers and advertisements but is well enough laid out that you can find what you want quite easily. It takes two steps to get to Kitchen or bathroom taps with their easy to use tabs and image links. You can also use the search field if you want something specific in the basin tap range.

The Next Bathrooms site shouts quality from the moment you open its homepage. Crisp white items in subtly coloureds suites are the order of the day with contemporary design giving that minimalist look. As well as category boxes there’s a band of tabs at the top to guide you through the site. It’s stylish and easy to use with taps and wastes accessed though either link. Each range has its tap and mixer item clearly outlined with excellent images. At the bottom of the page are well marked links to guarantees, delivery tracking, free delivery and secure shopping. All in all it’s what you’d expect of the Next retail chain.

Cheapsuites was set up to provide good quality products at low prices. They offer the usual incentives of a 5-year guarantee on all products, security when shopping online and a ‘Fair Trading’ policy. Where basin taps are concerned this means all the taps include the relevant waste fitting so you don’t have to add it as an extra to your order. There’s an order tracking facility as well. There’s a large selection of modern and contemporary designs to choose from including pillar types, mixers, monobloc as well as traditional and classic items. The site is well laid out with a rather pleasing blue background and with each item in its own box Categories are easy to find in menu form. Prices, as suggested by the name of the company, tend towards the low side of the price spectrum, but there are more expensive items to choose from as well.

The Bigbathroomshop offers browsers a large selection of basin taps at varying prices. There are literally hundreds of items. They say they have the largest selection of bathroom products available online. You can choose from international brands as well as the company’s own high quality product. Bigbathroomshop prides itself on giving value for money and being customer focused. You can even chat live to a bathroom expert under their ‘Live Help’ link. The website is easy to use with numerous filtering links including ‘brand’, ‘Delivery’ and ‘Price’ to help you browse more efficiently. Images are clear and there’s just enough information given to help you choose.

Better Bathrooms is fast becoming one of the biggest online bathroom showrooms on the web. It also has a bathroom showroom in Wigan, Lancashire where you can see the product you want to purchase before you do so. One of the main aims of Better Bathrooms is to offer really competitive prices and this is does, certainly compared to other online stores. There is also a central distribution centre in Warrington that’s open to the public and where goods can be bought on site. However it’s the online outlet we’re interested in and the site is quite busy but easy enough to navigate with large image links and straightforward menus. It takes just one click of your mouse to find basin taps and there’s a useful range including modern and traditional design. There’s also a section on ‘Kitchen Taps’. Quality is high and technology modern, using ceramic disc ¼ turn mechanics. Better Bathrooms stocks taps from most of the popular manufacturers including H20 and Hudson Reed.

This website is geared to offering a wide selection of quality bathroom product at reasonable prices, including basin taps. It sells items from acknowledged brands and if you want to see the product before purchasing you can visit their showroom in Sheffield. There are directions on how to get there on the website. Although the images on the site are good enough to let you know exactly what the product looks like – and that’s important where choosing the right style for your bathroom or kitchen is concerned. The site itself is easy to navigate with just one click taking you to the taps section. Information is laid out in easy to digest fashion and purchasing from the site is straightforward. There is also a handy Taps jargon Buster section in the taps page.

Part of the Focus group and voted the United Kingdom’s favourite DIY retailer, Wickes has put together DIY website that now allows customers to enjoy browsing from the comfort of their own home. So you can choose home improvement items for both kitchen and bathroom at your leisure. This means plenty of time to browse through the basin taps sections. But is it worth the time? Definitely, if you’re looking for a good selection of taps at reasonable prices that will be delivered to your door, either free or at a small cost. There’s free delivery on items costing £45 or more, which means a lot of basin taps will fit into the free delivery category. The Wickes site is quite busy with offers and advertising boxes, as well as help, advice and news. But it’s relatively easy to navigate using both browse categories and image links to guide you to the product you want.