huh didn't know that other countries didn't have separate taps
Interesting; I had always wondered this, especially when I visited a few years ago. It seemed rather odd; because on one side you had scolding hot water, the other was ice cold; so after using the restroom I sort of had to bounce between the two when washing my hands. :v:
I love this guy's videos, he seems to make the most random things interesting to watch
up until now i had no idea there was a place where you literally had separate faucets for each kind of water
oh, and who actually waits for warm water to wash their hands? i always wash my hands in cold water, never realized that was a "british" thing to do
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;46168129]huh didn't know that other countries didn't have separate taps[/QUOTE]
Yeah, us Americans use these styles:
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I actually never had seen a double tap sink until I went overseas. I thought it was just the traditional norm. Sort of a, don't fix what's not broken type of thing.
I find it really uncomfortable when washing up sinks in restaurants only have hot taps. You have to change the tap if you're washing your hands for too long, because it gets too hot to use. Oddly, hotels always seem to have mixers or hot and cold taps which merge into one actual spout, whereas I've only seen that in a few establishments- they always just seem to have a single, cold or hot tap.
I dont know but we have seperate taps like that in Hungary as well as non seperated ones. However, i live in the UK and in our house we have seperate taps in the bathroom and non a seperate one in the kitchen.
Funny that he says about running the cold tap for mixer taps, I've got that habit ingrained into me too.
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;46168238]Funny that he says about running the cold tap for mixer taps, I've got that habit ingrained into me too.[/QUOTE]
The weird thing is I do the exact same thing (even running the cold water for a few seconds before having a drink) even though I was born and raised in Turkey where you rarely drink the tap water anyway. I came to the UK about 3 years ago and I had no idea "never drink from the hot tap" was even a thing. Interesting.
I saw the most exotic setup while visiting Moscow. The hotel bathroom's sink had two taps, both labelled "hot", but neither providing it. The shower had a mixer tap with two knobs, labelled "hot" and "cold" - which gave you cold and warm water respectively.
I have both kinds in my house.
What's good about them is the water from the cold tap is always freezing cold. I'm in a modern building now and the water is always lukewarm even with the mixer all the way to cold. I have to keep water in the fridge like a pleb.
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;46168238]Funny that he says about running the cold tap for mixer taps, I've got that habit ingrained into me too.[/QUOTE]
I've also got this habit, only I do it because it takes a while for the water to get colder, not because of the bacteria etc.
I always thought It had something to do with saving water. Like being forced to plug the sink and mix some warm water and use that but not leave it running.
[QUOTE=Xyrec;46168496]I've also got this habit, only I do it because it takes a while for the water to get colder, not because of the bacteria etc.[/QUOTE]
At my grandmothers house you used to have to run the cold tap for about 5 minutes or risk Legionella disease from the old piping.
I only just noticed the sly cutaway to Windows Update when he mentioned visiting his family :v:
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;46168238]Funny that he says about running the cold tap for mixer taps, I've got that habit ingrained into me too.[/QUOTE]
For some reason I thought it was to wait for fresh water from the mains, rather than drinking the stuff that's been sitting still in your pipes for a few hours
I was always told as a child to never drink from the hot water tap, never knew why. Interesting.
how do you live with that.
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master race
even like, a hot and cold having separate handles let alone taps is frustrating
I always love the old restrooms in America that still have double faucets.
Even better are the ones that have the self closing faucets. Those make my blood boil.
Never thought i'd see a video on this subject.
Yeah I thought being told to never drink from the hot tap as a kid was just my mum being paranoid. Guess not.
I knew it had to do with old infrastructure, but I didn't know there were actual sanitation issues.
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[QUOTE=Scot;46168486]What's good about them is the water from the cold tap is always freezing cold. I'm in a modern building now and the water is always lukewarm even with the mixer all the way to cold. I have to keep water in the fridge like a pleb.[/QUOTE]
Really? Over here I tend to have the opposite problem with mixer taps, the hot water takes some time (if it shows up at all) but the cold is ready to go immediately.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46170279]Really? Over here I tend to have the opposite problem with mixer taps, the hot water takes some time (if it shows up at all) but the cold is ready to go immediately.[/QUOTE]
Probably because if your house is like most American homes, the hot water in the pipe cooled down. When you turn on the hot water, you let the old cooled water run through and the hot water from hot water tank reaches the faucet. Provided the hot water tank has any at all.
[QUOTE=Holt!;46168596]At my grandmothers house you used to have to run the cold tap for about 5 minutes or risk Legionella disease from the old piping.[/QUOTE]
This is bullshit, you can only get Legionella disease if you run hot water and breath in the fumes. You can drink the cold water and be totally fine. The problem comes if you take a hot shower. And for that there are special shower heads that filter the legions of preventable doom.
[QUOTE=CanadianBill;46169542]how do you live with that.
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I [i]HATE[/i] single-valve faucets. I can never get cold water at a decent flow rate from the fuckers. It's either "Hey here's that ice cold water you wanted coming at all the speed of glacial melt" or "Here's a fountain of lukewarm blah, but at least it's flowing reasonably fast".
Two valves, one tap thank you very much.
master race
even like, a hot and cold having separate handles let alone taps is frustrating[/QUOTE]
This is a thing? Amerifag here and i see seperate faucets more commonly than i see single ones. The only exception being like restaurants. In homes i usually only see two valve systems.
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