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In the process of refurbishing a bathroom. Whilst the esthetics part of this question will only prove everyone has a different idea of what looks good, what are the pros and cons of fitting black taps rather than chrome (in a bathroom). Do they mark up or scratch more than chrome? Do they look scruffy after a few years? I guess any mineral deposits or cleaning products will be seen easily? What about cleaning products do they eventually damage the coating? these are questions which so far the bathroom shops havnt provided a satisfying set of answers...they just want to sell and will let us buy whatever they are selling.
I've never owned black taps, but from others that I've seen in use there are no positives unless you want to clean and dry them after every use. They will be constantly covered in water marks and will look shit. There's a reason why chrome effect is so prevelant in taps.
Will probably be like a black car. Awesome when freshly cleaned. Rubbish most of the time.
We live in a very hard water area and have a small downstairs shower room with black fittings. It's certainly not ideal, but I think I'd do the same again. Cleaning products are not a problem to the finish.
I'll let you know in a year when the taps/shower my partner had fitted in her spare bathroom have aged a bit. Ben a few months so far and they look fine. She does have a water softener system in the house.
Have a bathroom fitted with matt black fittings, against my preference. To be fair a few years later they still look fine, cleaned weekly and the limescale is not obvious.
The slider on the shower broke and of course original spares are only availible in Chrome so I had to bodge the repair.
we have a black mixer in the kitchen, its got a matt finish to it, its been in 5 years now and looks the same