Most offices still run on a kettle and a fridge stocked with bottles. Neither copes well with a full team at 9am, and both take up space that could be doing something more useful.
Nothing to store, no bottles to order, and no queue at the kettle. Aquacool’s range covers everything from a compact undersink tap for a small team through to a four-way tap for a client-facing kitchen.
Every tap is installed and serviced by Aquacool engineers, with delivery typically next day. Available to buy outright or hire on a flexible rental plan.
Hydration is easy to overlook in an office, but it shows up in the work.
Even mild dehydration affects concentration, and it tends to hit in the afternoon when people are least likely to get up for a drink. Water that's genuinely convenient gets used more often than water that involves a trip to the kitchen and a queue.
A kettle serving a team of thirty is a bottleneck. Boiling water on demand takes the round of teas from a ten-minute job to a one-minute one, several times a day, which adds up across a week.
Decent facilities are a small thing that people notice. Access to filtered chilled, ambient and sparkling water is one of the easier ways to make an office feel looked after rather than merely functional.
Offering a visitor sparkling water rather than a lukewarm bottle from the cupboard is a minor detail that lands well, particularly in client-facing offices where first impressions carry weight.
An office kitchen and a client-facing reception have different jobs to do. One needs to get thirty people through a tea round; the other needs to look the part. So which types of water tap suit which areas of an office?
The kettle replacement, and the reason most offices look at taps in the first place. A boiling water tap delivers near-boiling water on demand, so the tea round stops being a ten-minute queue and starts being a one-minute job. Plumbed into the mains, with no jug to fill and nothing left switched on.
Aquacool's Ezy-Tap is a straightforward entry point for smaller teams, offering boiling and filtered chilled water from a compact undersink unit with a hot-dispense safety lock. For larger offices, the Elite Instant Tap T3 Steel adds ambient water and touch-free operation.
Cold, filtered water without a fridge full of bottles or a cooler taking up floor space. For open-plan offices and breakout areas, a chilled tap is often the most-used water point in the building, particularly through summer and in the afternoon slump.
The Elite HydroTap T2 is a good fit where space is tight, dispensing chilled and ambient water from a slim undercounter unit with UV protection. It suits quieter, design-led offices where the tap needs to disappear into the fit-out.
The upgrade that staff and visiting clients notice. Sparkling water on tap removes the running cost of cans and bottles, and gives you something better than tap water to offer a client in a meeting room.
The Elite Instant Tap T3 Black is Aquacool's four-in-one option, dispensing boiling, chilled, ambient and sparkling water from a single touch-free tap. It's the natural choice for a client-facing office kitchen or boardroom where one tap needs to cover everything.
Office kitchens are usually small, and the worktop is already competing with a microwave, a toaster and somewhere to put the mugs. A kettle, a water cooler and a fridge full of bottles between them take up a surprising amount of that space.
An instant tap moves all of it under the counter. The unit sits out of sight in the cupboard below, with only the tap visible above, which frees up worktop and removes the floor space a freestanding cooler needs. For offices working with a compact kitchen or a fit-out where appearance matters, it’s usually the deciding factor alongside the speed.
The obvious one, and where most of the daily use happens. An undersink tap frees up the worktop a kettle and cooler would occupy, and handles the morning tea round without a queue forming. For most offices this is the first – and often only – tap that gets installed.
Breakout areas, hot-desking zones and open-plan floors benefit from a water point that isn’t the kitchen. Chilled and sparkling options get more use here than boiling, since people are topping up bottles between meetings rather than making drinks.
Boardrooms and senior meeting spaces are usually specified to a higher standard than the rest of the floor, and the refreshments tend to follow. A four-way tap nearby means still, sparkling and hot drinks are all available during long sessions, without anyone leaving the room or a jug running dry halfway through.
Reception is the first thing visitors see, so the fit-out usually gets more attention than the staff kitchen – and a tap keeps the space clear of a bulky cooler. Where clients or candidates wait, a self-serve point means water is available without them asking, taking the job away from front-of-house staff and making longer waits more comfortable.
Canteens and larger break rooms see everyone at once at lunch. Higher-output units cope better here than a compact kitchen tap, and a single unit covering boiling, chilled and sparkling saves running several appliances side by side.
Installing a purpose-built water tap is a very real and effective way to reduce plastic waste, especially when offering sparkling options to teams. Even for offices that stay on top of recycling, avoiding plastic altogether is always going to be more effective – transporting, sorting and recycling plastic requires energy and cost of its own. It’s also a known fact that not all plastic does get recycled; in many cases a percentage still ends up in landfill.
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When coming into the office, having premium facilities in the kitchen area or shared spaces makes all the difference. It makes the team feel proud of where they work, and feel looked after. Before considering utility savings and environmental impact, consider making sure your team have everything they need to thrive in the workplace.
If you’re hosting meetings at your office for visitors, having purpose-built, premium facilities can help to make a strong impression. It shows you care about your people, and that your high standards are consistent – not just in your service or product, but in everything you do. Make your clients comfortable, and offer them a range of water types to make them feel accommodated.
A built-in water tap can provide filtered, ambient, cold and sparkling water, without requiring large plastic barrel replacements or refills. This cuts the need for your team to go to the store, or to grab a plastic bottle on the way to work, which are often disposable for convenience when commuting. If you represent a company that cares for the environment, take an effective step to reduce plastic waste, without the need for ongoing effort or maintenance.
No need to keep the staff fridge stocked up with still or sparkling water, or to replace a water cooler tank on a regular basis. A built-in water tap offers refreshing, filtered water options without ongoing fuss. While these daily tasks are not necessarily expensive, they add up and are ultimately unnecessary costs, when a permanent and easier solution is available.
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