Cold water taps turns backwards!

hockref · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:00 pm Post Subject: Cold water taps turns backwards!

Any bathtub i have ever used the both taps have turned counter clockwise to increase the water flow.

In the new house I moved into the cold water tap turns counter clockwise to increse water flow!

What went wrong and how do I fix it?

sooey · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:27 pm Post Subject:

Is it working alright, if it aint broke don't fix it.

Dan_Robinson

hockref wrote:

Any bathtub i have ever used the both taps have turned counter clockwise to increase the water flow.

In the new house I moved into the cold water tap turns counter clockwise to increse water flow!

What went wrong and how do I fix it?

What!?!?!?!

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Bahco · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:00 am Post Subject:

I will point out the obvious here....................change the taps

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breezer · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:51 am Post Subject:

but he only need change the cold one, since its that one that goes the wrong way, then again, get a macthing pair, perhaps they are australian taps?

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flinty · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:58 am Post Subject:

Strange enough I was in a house yesterday where the bath taps turned the 'wrong' way.

doitall · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:03 am Post Subject:

Who pinced a pair of surgical taps and changed the lever arms for heads

oldfellah

In days of old .... ( pre-metrication perhaps or pre-Chinese taps) ALL tap sets were arranged so that the HOT tap (which was always on the left side) turned clockwise to increase the flow and the COLD tap (all together now - READY - 'ALWAYS ON THE RIGHT SIDE') turned anti-clockwise to increase the flow.
Nowadays - perhaps because it's cheaper and there are more mixer taps many pairs of taps turn the same way. Most mixer taps preserve the 'hot on the left' tradition and most replacement tap innards are 'handed ' left and right' ( red and blue).
I was taught that it was arranged the old fashioned way 'so that a blind man would not scald himself'

John M

oldfellah wrote:

I was taught that it was arranged the old fashioned way 'so that a blind man would not scald himself'

W0t bout blind women then ?