Whaddya Mean There’s An Easier Way To Do This?
Submitted by: David. This is my bathroom sink. via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Mary says, “There, I mixed it!”
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Really though, what’s the easier way? Everytime I’ve seen these, I’ve had a cold left hand and a fantastic hot right.
You must be outside the US. Here, it’s supposed to be hot on the left, cold on the right, though I’ve seen a few places where some dingbutt installed them backwards.
Well, you could always try putting the plug down, and filling the sink instead.
Impressive show on how things work.
For the lazy man who can’t turn slightly to the left, or the right.
for when the hot is too hot and the cold is damn cold
There, I mixed it!
nice xD
that made me chuckle
Given the choice between scalding and freezing, this seems like a sensible(and cheap) way to deal with a sink like this. I always hated those in school. I would have put some rubber bands or a bungee cord on it, to keep it from shifting.
So you don’t find the separate hot and cold faucets charming?
- Jerry Seinfeld
I agree, Meduseld, I’ve always wondered why the plumber was so desperate to see one frozen hand and the other scalded. I think this is a brilliant idea, esp when washing the face.
I’d make a joke about bottled water.But it’s damn near impossible to make a joke like that funny.
The future of water filtration
And if you’re not sure how it works:
Separate tap solution step by step:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJUsqiDJNKA
(not my video)
The premise behind the double tap system is that water should be mixed in the sink and water from the sink used for washing hands, face, etc.
Americans simply don’t do this anymore. We prefer to wash in the water coming directly from the tap. The only new installations I know of that have separate hot and cold service taps on the sinks are laboratories with specific applications for sink stations.
Nevertheless, some of these older sinks still exist and for historic homes that want to keep as many of the original features installed or for poor people who can’t afford a new sink with a modern single H/C tap or are in a rental situation where home improvement isn’t worth it.
Excellent! My friend is in a rental situation where the kitchen sink has a two faucet setup. She may not choose this solution but she’ll get a laugh from the pic all the same.
David, you ought to bottle that and sell it
Chuckle!
Wow, Crystal Pipesi!
Or better yet. Clear Kludge Crystal Pipesi! (If anyone remembers Crystal Pepsi.)
I think only people of a certain age are laughing at this one…including me
Oh hey, someone got a picture of the science lab at my community college.
Hmm, I see the government program for putting old plastic bottles to work is going great… now if only they could do the same for actual people.
Where were you 38 years ago when I could have used this idea? (Thank heavens, we moved.)
A gleam in my daddy’s eye. I’m 37. Hehehe.
old picture!
Looks like that water doesn’t like being bottled up.
This is actually a brilliant idea. I used to live in an apartment which was 100 years old and they had sinks in one of the bathrooms similar to this picture. This idea would have solved many times of not being able to get the water just right when washing my hands.
Love it!1!
Well, sparkling water on the sink…
behind the scenes at the Perrier plant
I don’t know. The colors suggest Evian.
I don’t get it.
I don’t get it, too.
Why do they install such useless things ? To wash your hands properly one needs warm water.
I’ve never seen one of these in buildings that were built the last 40 years.
Aren’t two faucets more expensive than a good cheap one-hand-mixing-faucet ?
/N O
so THAT’S how they make soda water!
Hahaha! Uber kludge. Isn’t it easier to install a pipe that hand-cut and fabricate a bottle for that? ROFLOL!
Doesn’t the bottle sort of melt or shrink?
Soft ‘mericans and their mixer taps. I will have my TAPS separate please. Oh and it’s a “tap” not a “faucet.”
*prepares to duck*
Dam’ Brits, always tellin’ us how to use our language! =)
Last time I had to worry about such things, it was illegal in Britain to have a mixer tap that allowed hot and cold to mix before leaving the tap. Sounds odd, I know, but the premise is that the hot water tank may somehow backflow into the street main cold water supply, thereby possibly contaminating the water for the whole street. The modern(ish) way around it was to have a pair of knobs, one for hot, one for cold, and a single spout that has a wall in the middle, so one side is for hot and the other is for cold. This leads to washing your hands in stripy water that is *both* scalding *and* freezing.
And to further elaborate, in the UK, water destined for the hot water heater is often stored in a tank in the loft which is where the contamination can enter (my parents had to fish a dead pigeon out of theirs once). In the US, the heater is typically inline with a fully pressurized (and therefore sealed) water supply so no chance of contamination.
My (American) wife was quite surprised by the look on my face when I found she was filling the kettle from the hot water when she first came over. Though I should note that water from the cold tap typically leads to a better taste anyway, whatever the system
well now we’ll have proof when the next ebola pops “outta nowhere”
ugh. we have sinks like this in the dorms here in antarctica. sadly tho, they also require to be held on, so i’ve got rubber bands for that. tho the left/hot handle still doesn’t stick often. reckon i need to find a small water bottle as well… such a great idea!
In Michigan that’d be a 10 cents down the drain.
Gin on the left, Vermouth on the right.
Well, they had to put the fluid in the bottle BEFORE they built the little ships in there, right?
Hot and cold. Hot and Cold. And a combination of the two that I call…”HOLD.”
Those are still dominant in old uk houses. I was really happy to rent a house that had a single tap in the kitchen… until I realised that they have brilliantly engineered a single non-mixing tap. As TheCannyScot pointed the water was freezingly hot. Pity that in a picture looks like an ordinary tap.
P.S. Another solution that I have seen is joining to hoses with a t-join to have a proper shower
ahh….the earlier days of luke warm water….
Don’t the taps have a spring loaded head… so you have to turn it to go on with one hand while you wash the other??