Market Overview Mixer Mixer: Two-Welcome and Single-Term Models, Device Evolution, Design Collections.
A two-liter neoclassic style mixer for mounting on a single hole sink
Fairfax mixer ceramic cartridge is equipped with temperature limiter. The hidden aerator has an anti-lime coating.
Price, 6550rup
Model Revival in classic style.
Price, 19 thousand rubles.
Price - 2450 rub.
Purism's adherents will also taste simple lines and rectangular vigilant mixer Allure. Thanks to the chromium coating Starlight, the device is distinguished by special brilliance
Zenta alliances dominate the shape of a square and a circle
The new MX XXL mixer is capable of changing its height and thus makes it possible to wash the head over the sink or fill the high vessel with water. The mixer is easy to push and lead to normal position. When lowering its move automatically slows down
Model Metrise.
Price, 2500 rub.
Mathematics X is an unknown value, and in the design mixers - a new era: axORSTARCKX. Before us, a sculpture mixer, from which water comes out with a dense flow
The features of the CeraMix Life series are the monolithic case and seamless coating.
Twin mixer for hidden mounting
SOUL mixer with a direct narrow lever attaches unique features of a minimalist bathroom
Brown and gold colors make a mixer of a matter similar to a jewelry or a canvas woven
Axor Uno2 is the continuation of the Axor Uno collection. Mixers for all types of mounting will fit into the bathroom of any style: from country to techno
Updated eurostyle series.
Price mixer for sink - 2500 rub.
Chrome coating effectively, hygienic and protects corrosion housing
Kendo Mixer: Decision and Energy Designers tried to pass through clear forms and direct lines
There is always water in our homes, but it is not enough for us. We want to enjoy it just like a lifeful moisture of the murmur spring, a warm summer rain or a fascinating cascade of the waterfall. Weighting faucets fully implement these desires. They not only regulate the temperature and pressure of the jet, but also convert ordinary hygienic procedures into a real holiday.Water - fluid matter, it is difficult to subordinate to yourself
And it is still difficult to manage it.
P. Coelho.
Westhetics of the interior of the bathroom faucets play far from the latter role. They allow us to make a bright accent, emphasize the specified style and in some way to increase the status of not only devices, in the tandem with which, but also the ablution zones in general.
The inner device of the mixer depends on the method of controlling them. I will leave contactless mixers for the scene, which owns the future, and thermostats are more relevant to the shower and bath. Let us turn to the mechanical two-fledged and one-loaded models.
Opinion of a specialist
Choosing a mixer, focus on the manufacturer's name. It is it that it will be a guarantee that the product is made from high-quality materials and has a reliable coating that it has a cartridge designed in special laboratories that the lever will not fall off in a week, and the mixer itself will not flow the next day. AESLI Something will happen, with the warranty card you can contact one of the service centers. It is not bad to ask in advance what technologies guarantees the manufacturer: find its website on the Internet, to extract specialized magazines, finally, learn from the seller, from which the housing and lever are made. By the way, you can independently determine whether it is cast or fake. To do this, take the mixer in the hands and weigh the eye. The quality product should be severe, because the body is cast from brass is a traditional material used in the production of mixers. They use brand brass, in which the percentage ratio of copper and zinc is safe for consumer health. Brass case is not subject to corrosion. This material is technologically convenient, mechanically racks, it is well molded and processed, which means it allows you to experiment with the form.
Ekaterina Isakova, Grohe representation manager in Russia
Cold-hotTwentyl models are still in demand. First, due to habit. Secondly, they are organic in the interiors performed in such styles as classic, country, retro. They are released by leading European manufacturers: Grohe, Hansa, Hansgrohe, Kludi (all Germany), Herbeau, Jacob Delafon, JCD, THG (FRANCE) IDR.
OSNA-two-centylted faucet-box. This is a device that transmits or overlapping hot and cold water streams. Until recently, rubber gaskets were used in the crane letters. Daily products are more often installed ceramic valves with rotational drive. Are there any difference between them? The rubber gasket is rapidly wearing, and as it comes into disrepair, the valves need to be twisted all the stronger. When the zeal is unfulfing, overlapping the water supply, you can twist and damage the gasket - then the mixer will begin to flow. Another lack of twin mixers with rubber seals is the impossibility of quickly adjusting the comfortable temperature (34-42c- with such water we wash) and at the same time establish the necessary pressure. The valves rotate more than 360 in them, and that the water goes more accurate, it will have to make 5-8 commotes.
Water-in-section with ceramic discs Water is served or overlaps with two smoothly ground round ceramic plates with holes. You cannot twist the valves in the mixers with ceramic faucet-buxes. Aotheregulate temperature is pretty quickly, because the rotary opening / closing angle is 90 or 180 (1/4 or 1/2 turns) depending on the manufacturer.
To increase the wear resistance of ceramic plates, GROHE uses a high-tech carbodur coating, comparable with a diamond.
Group of biennial part includes monoblock structures with two handles located directly on the housing. Kdvukhventive includes mixers, spinning and valves which are separate elements. They are designed to be installed on the sink with three holes or for the hidden edge into the wall.
Ergonomics capture
The mixer is primarily a hand tool. He must pass the effort of the fingers, brushes, the movement of the elbow, shoulder. Therefore, when choosing a mixer, pay attention to several important points. Check if your fingers and palm are comfortable on the handle, do not have to unnaturally turn the brush; Whether the wet palm does not slide, does it feel sharp corners and edges.
Single hand game
The first one-dimensional mixer appeared in 50-hgg. HC., Was equipped with a ball regulator. The principle of its work is quite simple: water comes from the water supply in two submission channels into a hollow ball made of stainless steel. We make three holes: two inlets with teflon gaskets ("saddles") and one output. It is inside the ball mixed cold and hot streams. Almost the only one of the leading manufacturers applying a ball regulator remains Damixa (Denmark).
The most important role in the evolution of the mixer was played by IDEAL Standard (Germany). Creating a ceramic disc, the production technology of which was acquired in the United States from the National Aeronautics and Space Space Management (NASA), marked a real breakthrough in the history of water mixing. B1968 Ideal Standard patented a mixer with one handle and a cartridge on ceramic disks, and in 1969. He released its first mixer of a new type of CeraMix. Today there are millions such mixers.
The working element of the cartridge is movable, resistant ceramic plates with holes, polished up to 0.6 mkm. Their surfaces are covered with special silicone lubricant and so tight adhere to each other, which seem magnetized.
Price mixer Monodin- 2250rub.
Cartridges used in products DornBracht, Hansa, Hansgrohe, Ideal Standard, Jrger, Kludi, Villeroyboch (all Germany), Oras (Finland), Gustavsberg (Sweden), Manzzaro (Italy), Manzzaro (Italy), Jacob Delafon, are famous for its high performance qualities. They guarantee the ease and softness of the handle over the years, clear and smooth temperature regulation. Many of these manufacturers have their own patented technologies. For example, Silkmove Grohe technology is named so if it does not accidentally: it makes the slide of the mixer lever really "silk".
One of the advantages of the ceramic cartridge in front of the ball is that it is quite easily "adapting" to mixers of any form, as its diameter is 35-40mm. The new Waves series (Kludi), which differs in an unusually slender cylindrical body, is applied with a microcartridge with a diameter of 28mm; For collection Axor Starck (Axor, Germany), a cartridge was developed with a diameter of 27mm. Ascharova mixer less than 40mm in the diameter is difficult and expensive.
Opinion of a specialist
If for 80-90-hgg. EHF. Economic mixer was a purely functional subject, then at the beginning of the XXIV. The design came to this category. So, our company has developed a whole concept of the design of economy-class mixers - it is called World of Styles. We created collections both in the classic (economy) and in the designer (road) direction. Yv Tom and in another class also have its price levels. Both in economical and expensive models used the same cartridge. But even the cheapest Focus mixer cost only 2 thousand rubles. Announced IFDESIGN for improved design.
Previously, the variety differed only design collections in a higher price segment. Today and in economy class is a lot of installation options, including hidden. There is a mixer for sink on three holes, which, in principle, is the prerogative of expensive collections. In general, I do not advise saving on the mixers. Technologies used by well-known manufacturers allow you to use these products for a long time. Hansgrohe, for example, makes seven layers of coating on the body of brass. The lever of our faucets is not made of plastic, but from metal. So it is better to buy one high-quality mixer that will serve you 10 years old than to change it every six months.
Mikhail Chizhov,
Director of Marketing Representative Office Hansgrohe in Russia
Joystick- Magic wandA variety of single-art mixers are joystick. They can be found in the model ranks of Gessi, Guglielmi, Visentialin (all of Italy), Ideal Standard Idre. The inclusion, turning off and mixing the water in them is almost the same as in other single-art mixers, with the help of two ceramic plates, one of them is fixed inpatient, and the other is mobile. Votchchychi from those single mixers, the knob of which is aimed forward along the spout, the joystick is located vertically as the gear lever in the car.
One of the first applied this type of management in Faucetors Philip Stark, in 1994. Designed in the Commonwealth with Hansgrohe Engineers Axor Starck Products. Consistently developing the principles of minimalism, cutting off everything too much, Stark abandoned the usual moving completion of the mixer body. Instead, the designer left a small hole in the upper part of the monolithic chromium housing, from which a thin metal rod grows. It is freely moving in any direction and is extremely easy to manage.
Take care of the mixer
Ceramic plates in crane-descendants and wear-resistant cartridges, but they also have the enemies, the low quality of tap water and old, overlapping pipes. If there are rust or sand particles between the plates, ceramics can come into disrepair.
With the normal operation of the mixer, water is almost the only reason for its breakage. Output One: To protect European watershed reinforcement and plumbing equipment, you need to install on both pipes (for cold and hot water) Water purification filters from mechanical impurities, delaying particles are larger than 0.3 mm, and between the filter and mixer are not subject to corrosion of the pipe (for example , copper or plastic).
A few words about leaving: so that the chrome coating remains the same shining as on the day of purchase, do not use acid-containing and abrasive cleaners. There is enough soap or soft dishwasher (which need to be washed immediately after applying). Grohe, for example, recommends a special composition of GrohClean to care for its faucets.
Antibery savingsThe problem of saving water in Europe is very relevant. Therefore, in many single-grade mixers of European manufacturers (GROHE, Gustavsberg, Hansgrohe, Jacob Delafon, ORAS), it is possible to limit the flow of water by simple manipulation with the cartridge when installing the mixer or during operation. One of the common ways to reduce the pressure of the jet-two-stage adjustment of the lever. When moving from an economical mode to maximum stream mode, you will feel the slight resistance of the lever. Vega faucets (ORAS) are equipped with eco-pool located on the housing of the back and "slowing down" lever lift, as well as its movement horizontally toward hot water.
The temperature limit restriction mechanism is equally relevant, especially when the hot water temperature in the network is not 60-75C (as it should be on standards), but all 95. As with a reduction in flow, you can reconfigure the cartridge (for example, with HansGrohe products, Ideal Standard, Jacob Delafon). For this, the restrictive ring must be given a certain position. Gustavsberg semi-sewers have a beep (click), having dropped at 40 ° C. But this is a fairly conditional stubborn option more reliable.
Flexible or tough?
There are two types of lining for the mixer: flexible and rigid. The first is easier to install, so today most mixers are equipped with it. However, it fails to fail, which is fraught with a breakthrough of water.
Ita and other eyeliner is sold complete with a mixer. Opening the packaging, you will see that either flexible hoses or rigid metal tubes come out of the mixer.
For easier installation of single-art faucets, manufacturers develop their systems. Special attention deserves the Top Fix system (Ideal Standard, Jacob Delafon), which allows you to tighten the mixer fastening nut from below, which is inconvenient, and from above.
In addition, please note: in the horses of Europeans, the pipes with hot water are located on the left, and from the cold-right. Reviews are applied on their mixers: left-hand-red or arrow, right. The sighted old houses often happen on the contrary: cold water is served on the left, it is hot. If you can change the wiring, it should be done.
Whose nose is better?Most often, the mixer for the washbasin has a short spout. For large shells (as well as for hidden mounting in the wall), mixers are required with a sufficiently long expulsion.
Aerator (with a small mesh device on the tip of the gland) is equipped with each modern mixer. Mixing into the jet air, it makes it more dense, volumetric and pleasant to the touch, improves the detergent properties of water. If we talk about brewlessness, then the aerator is the first stage of water saving.
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Wall-mounted mixer with two separate valves and twisted twisted two-thirds of Russians (those who live in old houses) use a universal mixer with a long (300-500mm) swivel spout that serves nearby bathtub and sink. Permanent mechanical movements do not benefit him: the sealing ring and the planting cervix wear out, the mixer begins to leak, and often the spout is just falling off. Leading manufacturers such models are practically not produced by a very simple reason: in Europe they have long come out of use. Long expulsion faucets produce Arkon, Sunlit-T, Santekhpribor (all-Russia), and also manufactured in China and Turkey. Such products are also in the model range of Vidima (Bulgaria), and the shut-off valves are made for them in Germany.
The sink for such a mixer will also have to search (there should be no holes on its side). What is the conclusion? If the repair time has come, make a wiring and install the two different mixer separately: for a bath with a switch to shower and for sink. It is not only convenient, your bathroom is also much more attractive.
On a fashionable waveAll the latest innovations of firms producing mixers are more likely to form. Refusal of excesses in favor of perfection of simple lines and geometric outlines remains the most fresh reception in design.
Man-made waterfalls. Human desire to reproduce the beauty of natural phenomena in its own bathroom served as an incentive to create cascade mixers. Small manual waterfalls deliver aesthetic pleasure: it is so nice to contemplate a wide laminar (level) flow of water poured from items, in which it is sometimes difficult to know the usual mixers. Casual mixers use the same card-ridge as in single-art, only greater diameters (40mm). Externally, they differ larger sizes and a width of up to 300 mm, as well as a flat form of extinguishing, forming a uniform jet. Senting cascade mixers are presented by several other technical requirements. For them, the cross section is always greater than for ordinary (not 1/2, and 3/4 duma). Cascade mixers offer Kohler (USA), AxR, Hansa, Jacob Delafon, JCD, THG.
Budget mixers for sink (1.5-3 thousand rubles) produce all leading European firms specializing in this product, so the thesis "The well-known producer means, dear" is incorrect. Economic Mixers There are in the assortment of Damixa, Grohe, Gustavsberg, Hansa, Hansgrohe, Ideal Standard, Jacob Delafon, Kludi, Oras, Roca, Supergrif (Spain), Vitra (Turkey) and other companies.
Actual price segment mixer for a washbasin costs approximately 3-7 thousand rubles. Mixers for 7-8 thousand rubles. can be attributed to the premium class. Structurally, they practically do not differ from their more modest fellows, but they are much better design and decoration.
Mixer from the Alessi Dot collection | 
Mixer from the collection IL Bagno Alessi | 
Modern mixers often resemble sculptures |
The editors thanks the representative offices in Russia Grohe, Hansgrohe, Ideal Standard, Kludi, Oras, Villeroyboch, Vitra, "Koler-Rus", Konzept, "East Bazaar", "Extra class interiors" for help in the preparation of material.