Which side is your hot tap on?

viz

Emp_Fab said:

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.

Whenever I’ve had a hard day’s work and I see one of your random posts it always cheers me up!

EricTheWeary

Left or right from my point of view or the tap’s point of view? 

Emp_Fab

viz said:

Emp_Fab said:

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.

Whenever I’ve had a hard day’s work and I see one of your random posts it always cheers me up!

Thanks mate    You should see inside my head....  The crap that floats about in there - it's like the waste compactor from Star Wars.

BigMonka

EricTheWeary said:

Left or right from my point of view or the tap’s point of view? 

Lol! This just led to a funny conversation with my wife about whether the spout is the tap’s nose and it’s looking at you, or whether the spout is it’s tail and it’s looking the same direction as the user. Deep thoughts.

skunkwerx

BigMonka said:

EricTheWeary said:

Left or right from my point of view or the tap’s point of view? 

Lol! This just led to a funny conversation with my wife about whether the spout is the tap’s nose and it’s looking at you, or whether the spout is it’s tail and it’s looking the same direction as the user. Deep thoughts.

Im going to wash my hands in a bit imagining its the tail, and Im turning the balls to make the fluid come out. 

stephen.wood125

Yeah always taught hot on the left, however my Grohe mixer in the bathroom is the other way, due to location, could have connected the feed pipes the other way, but the dots on the tape weren't removable.

Weird how it's because most are right handed, if I'm holding a toothbrush in my right hand, I'm going to reach to turn the water on with my left.

Having stayed in thousands of hotels (or varying standards from woeful to relatively nice) it's always hot on the left.

hollywoodrox

Hot lefty like me lolz

Jimbro66

Hot on the left except when it is on the right.

not_the_dj

We’ve just had our bathroom refitted and the hot is on the left. Can’t honestly remember if that’s the same as it was before. 

However weirdly the two taps turn in opposing directions, not more righty righty/lefty Lucy. My wife assured me that’s correct for modern installations with separate taps both opening “towards the centre” but that messes with my brain. 

Dominic

Apparently the concept of Cold on the right is uniquely English and elsewhere in the world it's completely random

kaypeejay

Hot left for me. At my mum's house it is random.

A mate of mine had a toilet flush connected to the hot feed, took them a couple of months to notice after they had moved in (brand new house). Plumbers eh?

fretmeister

Hot on the Left for the separate ones

The bath is a 2 tap mixer and the hot is on the left of that as well.

BeardyAndy

Hot on the left is right..... Right?

ESBlonde

Emp_Fab said:

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.

Similar for me but it's about length (as if).

Left

Port

Red

are all shorter than thier opposites.

Right

Starboard

Green.

Anyway Hot left including the kitchen mixer tap knobs. That could be by accident because I installed it many years ago and the knobs and inlets could have been either way. I guess It just seemed right at the time, I don't remember thinking it through.

TheOtherDennis

Snags said:

Hot left, cold right ...

except for the bath...as we hardly ever use it.

Eeewww

;-)

Alterlifeson

Hot on the left everywhere except the bathtub. Taps are clearly marked hot on left, cold on right. But some bugger installed the hoses the wrong way around. Been living here for a year and still run my self a nice icy bath sometimes.

skunkwerx

ESBlonde said:

Emp_Fab said:

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.

Similar for me but it's about length (as if).

Left

Port

Red

are all shorter than thier opposites.

Right

Starboard

Green.

Anyway Hot left including the kitchen mixer tap knobs. That could be by accident because I installed it many years ago and the knobs and inlets could have been either way. I guess It just seemed right at the time, I don't remember thinking it through.

I remembered it as red- right fucking at you! 

BigBearKris

Hot on left, cold on the right. 
Stone cold in the middle.

sw67

All taps hot left except bath - the theory is that the hot tap should be furthest away from the edge of the bath, so that small children cannot scald themselves? ( said bathroom fitter )

viz

ESBlonde said:

Left

Port

Red
hot

are all shorter than thier opposites.

Right

Starboard

Green.
cold

Nice! In fact can include hot and cold too