Which side is your hot tap on?

Emp_Fab

Which way are the taps in your house?

Hot on the left, Cold on the right or vice-versa?

Mixer tap owners can play too if you have one of those central up & down to adjust the flow and left & right for temperature valves.  If you turn it anticlockwise for cold then that counts as cold being on the left.

octatonic

Cold on the right.

Philly_Q

I think all mine have hot on the left.

Emp_Fab

All mine are cold on the left.

ICBM

As far as I know it's supposed to be a standard that hot is on the left, so people don't scald themselves if they turn on a tap in an unfamiliar room or in the dark.

That said we have one basin where hot is on the right.

octatonic

Emp_Fab said:

All mine are cold on the left.

You rebel.

octatonic

ICBM said:

As far as I know it's supposed to be a standard that hot is on the left, so people don't scald themselves if they turn on a tap in an unfamiliar room or in the dark.

That said we have one basin where hot is on the right.

I believe it was because most people are right handed and cold is the one that is used the most.
Before we had hot and cold running water we just had cold water brought in by a hand pump- the pump control was put on the right again because most people are right handed.

Emp_Fab

octatonic said:

Emp_Fab said:

All mine are cold on the left.

You rebel.

I tell a lie!  I’ve just spotted that my bath is hot on the left, but the bathroom sink is hot on the right!

thecolourbox

My hot tap is invariably whichever one I switch on when attempting to switch on the cold tap

Snags

Hot left, cold right ...

except for the bath, where the plumber got confused and did it backwards, despite the tap being labelled the same as the others (I assume because it was facing the wrong way and he was upside down). I've been too lazy to change it as we hardly ever use it.

boogieman

They’re supposed to be standardised hot on the left because, blind people. Depends who installed them though, a lot of plumbers don’t seem to know left from right. 

robgilmo

Always cold on the right, that's how I was taught when I did my plumbing NVQ.

steveledzep

I designed and sold bathrooms for 13 years before retiring at the beginning of this year.  The correct configuration is hot on the left.

LastMantra

Emp_Fab said:

octatonic said:

Emp_Fab said:

All mine are cold on the left.

You rebel.

I tell a lie!  I’ve just spotted that my bath is hot on the left, but the bathroom sink is hot on the right!

Mine are the opposite. 
Everything hot left apart from Bath.

Kittyfrisk

Hot on the left, cold on the right.
Pint for the gentleman, glass of white wine or fruit-based beverage for the lady.
 Those are the rules!!

Emp_Fab

Wow.  I thought it was going to be completely random.  Turns out hot left is the norm.

DiscoStu

All my sinks are hot left/cold right. My bath mixer tap is the opposite, hot on the right, tap fitted at left end of the bath.
Someone told me baths are fitted with the hot furthest from the edge, to reduce the chances of kids leaning over and turning the hot tap on.

tony99

 always left, socialist tap innit? That's why it's red.

Paul_C

All of mine are hot on the right.

Emp_Fab

tony99 said:

 always left, socialist tap innit? That's why it's red.

Funnily enough, that's how I remember the orientation of navigation lights on boats and planes!  Red=Left.  Also port (the drink) is red so red=left=port.

LastMantra

I keep reading it as top hat.