newts
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- Isca Dumnoniorum
Hot should always be on the left for safe operation by visually impaired people to help reduce the risk of scalding.
Cold water taps....on the left or the right of the sink/bath ??
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rogerzilla
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Mixer bath taps aren't great as the fill rate tends to be a lot slower than with two separate taps.
Goldenretriever
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Always told as an apprentice, red on the right is wrong, easy way of remembering.
Time Waster
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It does not matter which side hot and cold taps are or which side of the mixer tap you turn the lever to for hot or cold water. It only matters that it is clearly indicated. I have been to too many places with no clear markings for hot and cold. There is one that has luke warm pretty much any where you move the lever except for one particular place then it goes hot. Where cold is I have never found!! Most of these dodgily marked taps either have s most tiny coloured dot underneath where you can miss them or they have coloured paint that has often just rubbed off.
So side for the temperature matters less than good, clear markings.
BTW anyone have qooker taps or equivalent? Hot, cold, very cold / chilled and boiling hot all on the same tap. That is simply my idea of a nightmare design of tap. My sister is onto their third (theey keep going wrong) and rates them highly. She no longer has a kettle and brews up from the tap!!
So side for the temperature matters less than good, clear markings.
BTW anyone have qooker taps or equivalent? Hot, cold, very cold / chilled and boiling hot all on the same tap. That is simply my idea of a nightmare design of tap. My sister is onto their third (theey keep going wrong) and rates them highly. She no longer has a kettle and brews up from the tap!!
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Unless you're blind or partially sighted.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Hot tub on the left, plunge pool on the right, sauna in the middle
Time Waster
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Clearly indicated could be done for blind or partially sighted of course. I have seen some where there is a raised, coloured dot before now with the dot half for one and full for the other. That could be used by blind or partially sighted.
I only think that the hot cold taps need to be identifiable. It is unlikely to get them 100% located by side each is on but there are other options for identifying them. If that varies with each brand or model that only then means the user has to learn how it is identified.
One flaw with always locating hot on one side is with individual taps that someone, somewhere will put them in wrong way around or some punter will ask for it that way round. Mixer taps you could specify in a standard which side the lever is moved to get hot or cold but individual taps need to have identification to be certain the heat is known.
Time Waster
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Plunge pool in the middle! you always go from hot to cold and back to a hot option so plunge pool must be in the middle surely?
Nibor
Bewildered
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- Accrington
MIxer taps do not mix in the uk
Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
- Location
- East central Scotland 🏴
Hot on the left.
Only exception is for a sink or bath against a wall in a direction that would place the left tap furthest out. In such cases it is justified to swap them around to prevent any inquisitive child turning on a hot tap and burning themselves.
Only exception is for a sink or bath against a wall in a direction that would place the left tap furthest out. In such cases it is justified to swap them around to prevent any inquisitive child turning on a hot tap and burning themselves.
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Hot on the left of course, where there are individual taps.
Interesting to hear @Nibor's comment that mixer taps don't mix in the UK. That presumably excludes dedicated shower mixers... but what about those abomination bath taps with a lever that switches the output to a hand-held shower hose? I wouldn't want that to be half scalding and half cold!
Otherwise, saw some comments upthread about bidets. I remember being dragged round bathroom showrooms as a kid in the 1970s by my parents, who signed on the dotted line for an avacado suite which included a bidet (as mentioned here) . They still have it today.
I've washed many feet in there (all two of mine)
Interesting to hear @Nibor's comment that mixer taps don't mix in the UK. That presumably excludes dedicated shower mixers... but what about those abomination bath taps with a lever that switches the output to a hand-held shower hose? I wouldn't want that to be half scalding and half cold!
Otherwise, saw some comments upthread about bidets. I remember being dragged round bathroom showrooms as a kid in the 1970s by my parents, who signed on the dotted line for an avacado suite which included a bidet (as mentioned here) . They still have it today.
I've washed many feet in there (all two of mine)
T4tomo
Legendary Member
I think its a pedantic distinction between a single lever tap and a mixer tap.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
I think it refers to the need for concentric spouts so tank water and mains water aren't mixed within the fitting.
