SHYTOT Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I just wonder if there is a convention regarding taps? Downstairs our taps are hot left and cold right. Upstairs they were cold left hot right. I have just bought new mixer taps for upstairs. These have hot left and cold right although the hot taps turn on clockwise and the cold anti-clockwise. It's all doing my head in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 All except one sink I can recall using has the hot tap on the left - the exception being in my parents bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-clips Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I just wonder if there is a convention regarding taps? Downstairs our taps are hot left and cold right. Upstairs they were cold left hot right. I have just bought new mixer taps for upstairs. These have hot left and cold right although the hot taps turn on clockwise and the cold anti-clockwise. It's all doing my head in. It must all be too much for you. I would suggest that you buy some large sticky labels and affix them to the taps. You could then write "HOT" or "COLD" on the respective taps and also "ON" and "OFF" and put some arrows pointing to the correct way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 It must all be too much for you. I would suggest that you buy some large sticky labels and affix them to the taps. You could then write "HOT" or "COLD" on the respective taps and also "ON" and "OFF" and put some arrows pointing to the correct way. Not much help when you're in someone else's house, or a hotel, in the dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I've also assumed that cold left and hot right was the convention, although in old houses it's often reversed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handypandy Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 It is always customary, but obviously not essential, to have hot on the left. If you have thermostatic mixer taps or a mixer shower, the units have to be plumbed with hot to the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-clips Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Not much help when you're in someone else's house, or a hotel, in the dark. Most decent hotels have electricity supplied now, so one can switch a light on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Most decent hotels have electricity supplied now, so one can switch a light on. I could if I wanted to wake up my wife at 3am and get nagged at for the next three hours... It's far from being a major problem, but I have always faintly wondered why there isn't a fixed convention for taps, as there is for screws, plug sockets and suchlike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanes teeth Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 For the benefit of the blind,hot should always be on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHYTOT Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Most decent hotels have electricity supplied now, so one can switch a light on. When you are sitting in a bath you don't normally bother trying to read what is written on the top of a tap, and I have to say that the very very expensive Bristan taps have such delicate engraving on them as to be unreadable due to reflected light. However it isn't a bother remembering which tap is hot and which is cold. It is having one tap that opens when you turn it in the dirction you expect to turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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