Hot tap - left or right or doesn't really matter?

[cruyff73]

Downstairs my hot tap is on the left. Currently in the bathroom it's on the right but when I change the wash basin should I change it or not? I thought it had to be on the left.

Cheers

 

[kevplumb]

1 are you blind
2 if not it don't matter it's convention as in it has always been that way

 

[Diyisfun]

I thought this was now standard hot on the left, ie for disabled partial sighted.

 

[Lagerkhan]

Downstairs my hot tap is on the left. Currently in the bathroom it's on the right but when I change the wash basin should I change it or not? I thought it had to be on the left.

Cheers

us timed served proper Plumbers were taught that the hot tap was furthest away from being able to reach it to stop children turning on and scalding etc.

 

[cruyff73]

I thought this was now standard hot on the left, ie for disabled partial sighted.

That's what I thought but they're opposite in work as well. Ah well, hopefully I'll always have my sight and it won't matter.

Thanks for your replies.

 

[wonderb0y]

so how does that work then? surly if they can reach the taps they can reach them both

i always do it hot on left unless it's a straight swap then it stays as it was

 

[Nige F]

Downstairs my hot tap is on the left. Currently in the bathroom it's on the right but when I change the wash basin should I change it or not? I thought it had to be on the left.

Cheers

us timed served proper Plumbers were taught that the hot tap was furthest away from being able to reach it to stop children turning on and scalding etc.

was that pre 1970 that`s when I started and it`s H=L. since then

 

[Hudd3]

I was always taught cold on the right as most people are right-handed.... and the cold pipe normally has more pressure so in most cases you are using your stronger hand to turn off the stonger pressure?!! .... anyone else heard of this?

Certainly we pipe with the cold on the right unless all the other taps in the house/room are reversed.

 

[namsag]

Reg in scotland going back to at least the fifties was hot left cold right ,reason being for blind people and like vast majority of population back then they where right handed.