Just moved into a recently built home in Middle Tennessee and something, easily fixed I know, is bugging me, the hot/cold position of valves for the water faucets.<BR><BR>What say youWhich Side of the Faucet Should (read: is your "Normal") the Cold and Hot Valve Be Located?Hot on Left, Cold on RightCold on Left, Hot on RightDoesn't matter, I chenge them to how SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) wants themDoesn't matter, I change them randomly to mess up others in the houseI adapt to however the installer positioned them

The “three rules of plumbing:”

Hot’s on the left,
Cold’s on the right,
Sh*t don’t flow uphill.

Bout like asking which way to TP should come off the roll.

Hot is always on the left.

It has always been traditional to have hot on the left and cold on the right, for no particular reason I can think of.

Hot is on the left.

The patent for the TP holder was filed and approved with the sheets coming over the top to the front (much to the delight of cats everywhere).

What if the knobs are oriented in the conventional manner but both rotate in the same direction instead of one CW and one CCW to turn the water on or off?

I thought hot on left was almost standard.

Hot on the left. That's the standard. Your house do what you want but we naturally reach for what we are used to.

As it is written,

The “three rules of plumbing:”

Hot’s on the left,
Cold’s on the right,
Sh*t don’t flow uphill.

Hot on the left.

Our master bathtub, standing outside it turning the water on, the hot is on the left, but when you get in it and sit across from the faucet the hot is then on the right.

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Originally posted by vthoky:
The “three rules of plumbing:”

Hot’s on the left,
Cold’s on the right,
Sh*t don’t flow uphill.

Don’t chew your fingernails

4th rule of Plumbing:

Boss spelled backward is double s o b

Hot is always on the left

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
I thought hot on left was almost standard.

Agree. True for every place I’ve lived in the US.

I thought that was the case for all until I got stationed in London.

It changed from hot on the left to hot on the right.
There was a learning curve involved.

Of course a lot of things are ass. backwards over there.

Bob

The Plumbing Code usually requires hot on the left and cold on the right.

It’s a safety issue.
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Search "tennessee code for hot and cold faucets" and you will see that hot is required to be on the left. So, if your newly constructed home does not comply, then (a)the subcontractor is at fault and (b)the home inspector prior to certificate of occupancy missed or ignored the issue.

Criss-crossing the supply lines using reputable flexible braided hoses should fix the problem.

Being the 'I wonder what else they didn't do right' sort of person, if I got a newly-built house with something obvious like that done incorrectly, I might consider having someone knowledgeable look at other plumbing functions to be sure they were done right.

Hot on the left. I grew up in a house where the hall/kids bathroom shower was reversed. Everything else in the house was correct but that one. I am 57 and still have to think about which side is hot or cold sometimes.

Question for the 6 people who voted hot on right. What country to do you live in? Are you below the Equator? Did you accidently click the wrong answer?

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
Question for the 6 people who voted hot on right. What country to do you live in? Are you below the Equator? Did you accidently click the wrong answer?

The house I grew up in, in NJ, was built before WWI. Hot was on the right. It had the old fashioned European style faucets in some of the sinks with individual single faucets, one each for hot and cold.

My mom is English and moved back in the late 1980's. Her houses there (one 1704 the other 1850) have hot on the right, with the separate single faucets except the kitchen sink and the shower.