Timeline for How to use sinks with separate hot/cold taps?
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| Mar 23, 2020 at 11:23 | comment | added | Real Dreams | Oh, people! For god's sake, don't use the first "technique". Do you want to make your hand clean or dirty! Both of this so-called technique was a lot of water. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 23:44 | comment | added | рüффп | I was also surprised when I visit a friend of mine in a new house in UK, still this silly double tap, anyway it is just problematic for washing hands and face as in the shower they both go in the same showerhead. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 13:18 | comment | added | jwenting | or just get used to washing your hands and face with cold water rather than lukewarm :) | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 10:36 | comment | added | Simon | @balpha I agree with your comments totally. If people find washing with a 2 tap system problematic, I dredd to think what other problems they have encountered in life. | |
| Nov 10, 2011 at 11:04 | comment | added | Tom Hawtin - tackline | Bloomsbury Theatre amuses me with a sign saying BEWARE THE VERY HOT WATER and old school taps. Top tip: Get in there early before the pipes are up to temperature. | |
| Nov 9, 2011 at 13:18 | vote | accept | Yousf | ||
| S Oct 29, 2011 at 20:47 | history | suggested | FCTW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2011 at 8:54 | comment | added | hippietrail | @Grzenio: Maybe some places are just more conservative and resistant to new ideas, even good ones? | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 8:49 | comment | added | Grzenio | @hippietrail, it doesn't explain why in many new developments they would still install separate taps. And today the price difference between mixer and separate taps in negligible comparing to plumber's fees. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 21:22 | comment | added | hippietrail | They didn't replace them when mixer taps came out because mixer taps were expensive when they came out. They didn't replace them when the prices got lower because plumbers are expensive. They didn't replace them themselves because by law a plumber has to do it or they just don't want to mess up their plumbing and they're used to the old separate taps. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 14:26 | comment | added | JoelFan | @balpha... I'm not getting how you could find 2 taps no less convenient... you must not wash your hands that often or wash them thouroughly | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 11:32 | comment | added | mindcorrosive | @balpha: If you have been accustomed to running hot water or bathroom in your home, wouldn't you call it "inconvenient" if you go to to a place with an outhouse? But for the people living there, it sure won't be inconvenient (or they would have changed it), because they are used to it, or don't have anything to compare to. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 8:49 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee | Why would you consider sinks unclean? This is an interesting cultural difference. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 6:27 | comment | added | balpha♦ | @JoelFan: "tolerate inconvenience" -- are you kidding me? Has it ever crossed your mind that people may not even find it inconvenient? I live in a country where both kinds of sinks are very common, and I don't find either one any more incovenient than the other. | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 19:05 | comment | added | JoelFan | Why do they use it? Probably a combination of resistance to change and willingness of the public to tolerate inconvenience. I'm sure the 2 tap system is cheaper so if there's no motivation to spend more money they won't. | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 14:53 | comment | added | Grzenio | @mouviciel, the thing is you can do the same thing with a mixer tap. And many people use option (2) mentioned above, which wastes by far the most water. | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 14:51 | comment | added | Yousf | I will practice more on "move you hands quickly". Hopefully I can be fast enough :) | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 14:51 | comment | added | Yousf | I didn't like this "fill the sink, and wash your hand", sinks are not that clean! | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 14:29 | comment | added | mouviciel | You don't waste water if you plug the sink. I think of it as a smart design choice for saving the Earth. | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 14:15 | history | answered | Grzenio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |