If you wanted to get hot water out of the faucet illustrated in the linked-to picture, which way would you turn it - the way illustrated in Figure A, or the way illustrated in Figure B?
In case it’s not obvious, the picture is looking from the top down on a faucet with a single handle that you twist left or right in order to set the water temperature.
The faucets in my office building are all connected in a way that seems completely backwards to me - but I thought I’d check to see what the popular opinion on here was. They are all connected properly, I checked with the manufacturer’s instructions, but the design just seems screwed up to me.
The red dot indicates the side of the faucet toward which to turn the handle in order to get hot water. I would not expect to try to line up the red dot on any axis, just move it in the “normal” direction (with normal defined as every other faucet produced in the U.S. by Crane, Delta, or Moen or the other typical suppliers).
If the building has been furnished by some odd company with a fetish for doing weird things , then all bets are off.
The only time I might even consider going away from the red for hot water would be if the dots were reversed. I would consider it more likely for the dots to be “wrong” than the whole tap.
Damn! Hit submit too soon. Figure A UNLESS I was in a Chicago apartment, in which case all bets are off and you just have to try both. Lots of us have plumbing that’s plumb (or should that be plumbed) backwards. I heard once (read:“this is probably not true, but I’ll do my part to spread disinformation anyway”) that a huge percentage of Eastern European plumbers in Chicagoland in the 30’s-70’s plumbed our pipes like they were back home - hot on the right.
Okay, that seems pretty universal. But yet, as you might have already guessed, all the faucets here are connected so that Figure B is the correct answer.
Not just weird – but wrong. Hot water is on the left, cold water on the right. Every plumber knows that (or so said the plumber who helped me re-plumb my bathroom several years ago.) It’s possible somebody screwed up the specs and the hot water supply comes up on the wrong side of each faucet. But I’ve seen those taps before and everybody else on this thread is right – Figure A is how it’s supposed to be. At least according to my plumber friend (who also enjoys beer in great quantities, so Lord knows how accurate he is.)
Just had this argument with a friend a few days ago.
They should work like Fig A. All single-handle faucets you push to the side that the separate handle would be on - which is the left side. (Except that I kept saying “right” when arguing the other day, and had to end up with “You know, the OTHER right!”. Hate that.)
