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A simple but frustrating problem ~ faucets! Should they have two control valves for hot & cold, or just one common control? We’re redoing several bathrooms in the house and my wife and I are at odds on this one item.
Two are too difficult to control the temperature. Two is one more that has to be repaired. Two seems to be confusing when one is just a turn left or right.
And how about those that turn clockwise or counterclockwise for on and off? I’ve even found that the hot turns clockwise and the cold turns counterclockwise, but at times people have the wrong valve installed and both turn the same directions. Who makes up these rules for just getting water?
Well, I was in an Econolodge [not to brag or anything!?!] in Kentucky near Fort Knox, and they had the faucets hooked up wrong on the bathroom sink-which wasn't in the bathroom, but I digress. The hot was on the right, and the cold on the left. Kind of messed me up thinking, hmmm...is that RIGHT??? Travel confuses me.
I can not stand a single knob. I also insist that the bathtub HAS to have a faucet, not just a shower head. I also feel that one knob looks like it belongs in a hotel bathroom.
My husband & I argue about this every time, but I win every time.
Well, I was in an Econolodge [not to brag or anything!?!] in Kentucky near Fort Knox, and they had the faucets hooked up wrong on the bathroom sink-which wasn't in the bathroom, but I digress. The hot was on the right, and the cold on the left. Kind of messed me up thinking, hmmm...is that RIGHT??? Travel confuses me.
I have found the same thing in travels, where the hot and cold are reversed and create a problem while in the shower. Why are these installed incorrectly who knows, but it happens too often and in the nice but strange areas of the country.
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Originally Posted by clawson26
No offense to the "one" voters but I like the two handle ones better. The "one" style looks cheap to me...like in a public bathroom...
I agree that the single control is less decorative but it’s so nice to control the flow and temperature with one single turn instead of adjusting the cold knob and then get too hot of water with more flow or pressure then expected. My little body is very sensitive to this change. And just when I turn the cold clockwise to increase it the knob is reversed and has to be turned counter-clockwise, I then adjust the hot water knob and try to control the flow and temperature and find that knob is the opposite and I freeze my little tushie. http://www.airamericaplace.com/boards/style_emoticons/default/butt.gif (broken link)
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I have a single in my bathroom (and shower- no faucet).
I have a hot & cold in the other bathroom and shower and faucet.
Then I have a nice hot and cold on a pedestal sink in the 1/2 bath.
Sooooo....I have a little of everything!
NOW, if you go to the sink OUTSIDE in the backyard, it's got a nice, deep, porcelain Kohler sink and the double thingys for the faucet and they are both COLD!!!! oI think those two turn in different directions too. (that was the Xs doing and he never fixed it). :-(
I agree that the single control is less decorative but it’s so nice to control the flow and temperature with one single turn instead of adjusting the cold knob and then get too hot of water with more flow or pressure then expected. My little body is very sensitive to this change. And just when I turn the cold clockwise to increase it the knob is reversed and has to be turned counter-clockwise, I then adjust the hot water knob and try to control the flow and temperature and find that knob is the opposite and I freeze my little tushie. http://www.airamericaplace.com/boards/style_emoticons/default/butt.gif (broken link)
Why isn’t life simple anymore? http://www.airamericaplace.com/boards/style_emoticons/default/Thud.gif (broken link)
Hmmm.... protect the tushie or go for the attractive but impractical look....isn't that an age old question????
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same directions. Who makes up these rules for just getting water? 
