Cold water taps....on the left or the right of the sink/bath ??

[Alex321]

If you really want to cause consternation, try showing an American visitor a bidet (with or without mixer taps!)

I was under the impression bidets were more common in America than they are here.

I remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee (when he went to New York), but I have only ever seen one in the UK in a very occasional hotel room.

 

[Threevok]

I was under the impression bidets were more common in America than they are here.

I remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee (when he went to New York), but I have only ever seen one in the UK in a very occasional hotel room.

Some years ago, one of Mrs V's friends thought they were for washing socks, when she came across one in her hotel room in Spain.

We still rib her about it

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Who cares? Do as you wish and mix it up to keep people on their toes!

 

[classic33]

UK convention is cold on the right but lazy plumbers sometimes take the easiest route. I've plumbed many baths and basins and would never do it the wrong way around.

It's not.
"As far back as 1965 a code of practice called CP 310 advised that wherever possible hot water taps should be placed on the left."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42948046

 

[classic33]

Who cares? Do as you wish and mix it up to keep people on their toes!

Have seperate cold and hot taps, not mixer taps!

 

[rogerzilla]

It's not.
"As far back as 1965 a code of practice called CP 310 advised that wherever possible hot water taps should be placed on the left."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42948046

I don't understand. Cold on the right implies hot on the left!

 

[MontyVeda]

Hot on the left for me. No idea why and had no idea there was a norm. Just luck i guess.

 

[T4tomo]

I was under the impression bidets were more common in America than they are here.

I remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee (when he went to New York), but I have only ever seen one in the UK in a very occasional hotel room.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/us-bidet-toilet-paper-sales-coronavirus

later comers to bidet revolution apparently. Croc dundee probably says more about dirty hairy arsed aussies than US sanitary wear.

 

[Alex321]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/us-bidet-toilet-paper-sales-coronavirus

later comers to bidet revolution apparently. Croc dundee probably says more about dirty hairy arsed aussies than US sanitary wear.

True.

And of course that was also in a hotel, not a private home.

 

[Sharky]

Our old bath taps were fitted the wrong way round. When we had a thermostatic mixer tap fitted, the plumber kept the supply pipes in lone and fitted them the wrong way as well.

So when you wanted hotter water, you turned the thermostat to the hot side, but that just increased the cold supply!

He came back straight away very apologetic.

 

[Electric_Andy]

All mine are the correct way around (hot left, cold right). I don't have any mixers, in fact I do not like them at all. I heard, or read somewhere, that it's cold on the right because most people are right handed and tend to go to the right hand one naturally, hence safer than potentially turning on the hot one.

Why not mixers? Well, every house I've ever lived in takes at least 10 sesonds for the hot water to start coming through. Older style showers are even more annoying. One has to guess at the heat level and continue to re-adjust as the hot water slowly comes in. You know where you are with separate taps

 

[slowmotion]

I've done all the plumbing in our house so the taps are all plumbed on the "Lazy Principle".......the hot side and the cold side are just what's easiest at each outlet.

 

[rogerzilla]

SO has an ex-council flat and the council did the bathroom sink wrong!

 

[mistyoptic]

Our house used to be the opposite way on the two floors.

whilst on the subject though…

mixer taps! If there’s just red and blue dots. Should I position the dot for the temperature I want next to the spout, or should I turn the lever towards the temperature I want, i.e. opposite way? Am I overthinking this?

 

[roley poley]

All mine in the house are hot right/cold left ...To me it don't matter..get the signage right and i can live happily