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| Jun 26, 2014 at 13:19 | history | edited | Alex Feinman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2014 at 12:47 | comment | added | semi-extrinsic | I could not find any EU legislation on this either, but an explanation which is a lot more plausible: baddesigns.com/faucet2.html Basically that you can get the same faucet with either screw-taps or lever-taps, and the lever-taps require opposite directions. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 22:31 | comment | added | David Richerby | @steveverrill [citation needed]. I've never noticed any such issue with bathroom taps and I can't find anything online. It's hard to believe that the EU could legislate about which direction bathroom taps should turn without the Daily Mail screaming about it, for example. This sounds a lot like a euromyth. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | Level River St | @O.R.Mapper I'm not saying it is the only reason for the popularity of the single-handle mixer, but it has certainly accelerated the trend. User Exp with hot taps is now awful. If you're rinsing your hands after using the toilet all you care about is having "some water", you don`t care much about temperature. Assuming you have correctly identified that you are dealing with a hot tap you have to guess which way to turn it by judging its age. Interestingly one of the other answers here identifies a building code requiring the exact opposite of this one. ux.stackexchange.com/a/57968/46297 | |
| May 28, 2014 at 6:51 | comment | added | 200_success | This answers the opposite question, though. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @steveverrill: Are you sure that the mixer tap has become widespread in response to said regulation? I'd have thought that was simply because mixer taps are superior in that they allow for a direct control of both water pressure and temperatures independently of each other. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 21:24 | comment | added | Almo | Argh that's horrible. :( | |
| May 27, 2014 at 21:05 | history | edited | Itumac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2014 at 20:05 | comment | added | Level River St | Building codes give uniformity, but do not necessarily give the best user experience. For years in the UK, everyone understood that all taps were lefty-loosey, righty-tighty. Then the European union decreed that hot taps should be the reverse: i.e. turn clockwise to open. The result is a lot of confusion (people often don't look at the colour of a tap) and a lot of hot taps wrenched off their respective sinks. No wonder every modern bathroom in continental Europe now has a mixer tap with a single handle for both hot and cold (lift for on, right/left for temperature.) | |
| May 27, 2014 at 17:52 | history | answered | Itumac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |