Designer Bath Shower System

What you notice first in the detail photos is the mixer lever: a wide paddle curved downwards, almost like a wave. You push it with your fingertips, with no handle to grip, which stays pleasant with wet hands.

The mixer body is slim, with a flat spout that projects above the bath. It is fixed to two wall connectors with round rosettes, the classic set-up for an exposed bath-shower mixer. The shiny chrome matches the finish of the round bar and the straight arm that carries the rain head.

In bath mode, water leaves through the spout to fill the bath. A control on top of the body sends the water back up the column: to the very fine round rain head at the end of its arm, or to the round handset taken off its holder.

This holder slides along the bar: lower the handset to rinse a child sitting in the bath, raise it for a standing shower. The handset has a ring of nozzles around a centre, a sign of several jets, though the supplier does not state how many.

The mixer screws onto the two water supplies coming out of the wall above the bath. If an old wall-mounted bath-shower mixer is already in place, it is replaced on the same outlets; a well-equipped DIYer can do it, otherwise call a plumber.

The bar is then fixed to the wall by a bracket that needs drilling, in line with the mixer. Allow for the height of the bar and arm above the mixer so the rain falls above your head once you are standing in the bath. The supplier states a stainless steel body.