is hot water always on left?

[dalai]

my son gave me a shower mixer tap to replace my hot/cold bath taps

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• dalai
• 20 Jul 2014
• 1

http://jaquar.com/main/flr-5659-exposed-bath-shower-mixer-tub-mounted

does the hot water supply go on the left? or doesn't it matter?

it looks like the left knob if pressure and right is the hold/cold mixer

 

[fluxeyfingers]

It looks like a thermostatic mixer, and yes it should have the hot supply on the left.

 

[fluxeyfingers]

At least, if it's for the uk market it should... best check the manual.

 

[dalai]

ok thanks. don't have a manual and can't find anything online so hoping its on left.

 

[fluxeyfingers]

Set the tap on max hot, if you can blow through the left tail but not the right, then hot should be on the left.

 

[Dan Robinson]

It will matter for your unit in the picture. It will be the hot on the left on those.



For reference though, the hot on a bath was sometimes plumbed as the furthest away from the user - the theory being (as I remember being taught) that kids/vulnerable people wouldn't be able to reach the tap and scold themselves.

 

[dalai]

ok thanks

I can't blow through right tail (all settings same).

I can just about blow through left tail (all settings same).

 

[fluxeyfingers]

Thanks Dan, very educational.

OP, your hot supply should be on the left.

 

[Terry lambert]

I was taught that the hot should be on the left as agreed with the blind association

 

[DeletedUser]

I was taught that the hot should be on the left as agreed with the blind association

Me too

 

[Dan Robinson]

Perhaps I was taught wrong.... but I have indeed come across baths plumbed as I described. Perhaps it was a thing from olden days .

Perhaps the blind association got things changed later?

I dunno... I'm hungry.

 

[Terry lambert]

No perhaps, go and get something to eat and thank me on your return

 

[Whitespirit66]

When I left home, I bought a flat that had the bath taps the correct way around, but the basin taps were vice-versa. Used to annoy the hell out of the Mrs, but as the saying goes, 'the cobbler's children are always the worst shod', so it took me ages to get around to re-piping the basin taps. After you've been plumbing all day, getting your tools out again is the last thing you want to do.

Before I re-piped properly, I just swapped the tap heads over. Still not good enough for 'er indoors. They're never bloody happy!

The bathroom was actually installed by a 'plumber' a couple of years before we moved in.

 

[D_Hailsham]

It's in the Building Regs.

Approved Doc G, page 28, para 4.6: Where hot and cold taps are provided on a "Sanitary Appliance", the hot tap should be on the left.

"Sanitary appliance" includes a bath, sink, washbasin, shower and bidet.

 

[gas112]

Dont know about England but it was a rule in scotland from at least the 1950`s on housing sites that cold should always be on the right because the of blind people and the majority of population being right handed so to stop scalding