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Why is the cold water always on the right side
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| prescot 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| I am thinking about changing my faucets. I think it would be easier for
the average left hand person to have the cold on the left side.
Is there a reason why I can't do this.
I read on another board that it is a code issue. Can someone explain
the code issue?
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| Red Jacket 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| Safety. Hot water scalds.
"prescot" <etgiraffe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> I am thinking about changing my faucets. I think it would be easier for
> the average left hand person to have the cold on the left side.
> Is there a reason why I can't do this.
> I read on another board that it is a code issue. Can someone explain
> the code issue?
>
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| prescot 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| What does safety have to do with this? Hot water is indicated by red
tab on top of faucet blue for cold. What difference does it make?
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| Bennett Price 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| I'm curious whether hot on left is the rule in parts of the world that
drive on the 'wrong' side.
prescot wrote:
quote:
> I am thinking about changing my faucets. I think it would be easier for
> the average left hand person to have the cold on the left side.
> Is there a reason why I can't do this.
> I read on another board that it is a code issue. Can someone explain
> the code issue?
>
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| PipeDown 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| Truely SAFE products do not rely on the operator to observe variances to the
norm. They operate passively and in expected ways.
Sometimes a guest to your house might use the bathroom in the dark. Since
there is a universal assumption that cold is on the right (the original
designation was probably arbitrary but now it is a Standard) that person
might wash their hands only to find the wrong temperature.
If that is not a good enough reason, you would never get an inspector to
sign off and if you sold the house, it would show up prominently in the home
inspection report and likely result in your having to fix it then.
Some faucets do not have colored inserts but have engraved letters on
handles that cannot be exchanged, some people are even colorblind (imagine
that).
Nobody will arrest you for doing it but someone might sue you and win if
they are scalded. Intentionally reversing hot and cold would probably be
seen as negligent if it got that far.
I once stayed at a hotel that had the hot water hooked up to the toilet.
For what purpose I don't know, but it is luxurious to have your butt steamed
when you flush.
If you want fair treatment for lefties, try a faucet with one handle.
"prescot" <etgiraffe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> What does safety have to do with this? Hot water is indicated by red
> tab on top of faucet blue for cold. What difference does it make?
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| indago 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| The cold water is on the right side because the hot water is on the left...
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| prescot 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| No one has still answered the question.... There has to be a reason why
cold water is on the right sidet. To just say it is because because the
hot is on the left is stupid. To say it is a standard, what made the
standard? To say it is a safety issue is not an answer to the question,
it is an answer to a different question about someone making the
assumption that the person knows that the cold water should be on the
right side.
Are there any actual, real plumbers here that know why?
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| Dale Wilcox 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| I was told in school years ago that when water was first installed in
buildings there was only cold and it was installed on the right side of a
sink because most people are right handed. When hot was added at a later
date it was installed on the open side (Left). If that isn't good enough for
you, It is now a code issue.
Dale
"prescot" <etgiraffe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> No one has still answered the question.... There has to be a reason why
> cold water is on the right sidet. To just say it is because because the
> hot is on the left is stupid. To say it is a standard, what made the
> standard? To say it is a safety issue is not an answer to the question,
> it is an answer to a different question about someone making the
> assumption that the person knows that the cold water should be on the
> right side.
>
> Are there any actual, real plumbers here that know why?
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| Red Jacket 2005-06-16, 2:29 pm |
| Sorry, its still done for safety reasons.
Use some common sense.
"prescot" <etgiraffe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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No one has still answered the question.... There has to be a reason why
cold water is on the right sidet. To just say it is because because the
hot is on the left is stupid. To say it is a standard, what made the
standard? To say it is a safety issue is not an answer to the question,
it is an answer to a different question about someone making the
assumption that the person knows that the cold water should be on the
right side.
Are there any actual, real plumbers here that know why?
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"prescot" <etgiraffe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1118595057.413188.119440@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
quote:
> I am thinking about changing my faucets. I think it would be easier for
> the average left hand person to have the cold on the left side.
> Is there a reason why I can't do this.
> I read on another board that it is a code issue. Can someone explain
> the code issue?
>
Are you putting in individual faucets? If it is a typical double faucet (one
piece) then I would suspect that hooking up the cold water to the left side
might result in a compatibility issue in that the hot water and cold water
cartridges are not the same. So hot/cold water going into a faucet meant for
cold/hot might be a problem--something to check out.
Why cold is on the right and hot on the left?? I would guess that when
indoor plumbing became the rage that was how the first plumber put it in and
ever since then everyone else has followed his convention thinking that if
they reversed it something would go wrong
MLD
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