Why Does the UK have Separate Hot and Cold Taps? / Team Mixer Tap!
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Oh glorious leader, we worship at your faucet and will follow where you lead.
Always fun debate same as scones and cream with jam.
In our house we have compromised, my wife prefers separate taps for "aesthetic" reasons, so we have separate taps in the bathroom. I prefer mixers, so we have mixers in the kitchen, result, a happy household.
Need removable stickers to leave behind on separate facet installations.
Hi GGL. I'm a tap dancer.Can't decide.
Mixer = convenience
but wastes water while you set the temperature you want.The next time you use it,you have to run off the hot/cold water you don't want thats left in the pipes before you can begin setting your own preference.
Lastly, lingering doubt about nasty bacteria which thrive in warm standing water. ?So safer not to drink from a mixer tap?
Seperate H/C = not as convenient.
but there is no hardship washing hands in cold water for 20 seconds.
for washing face(or anything else) put plug i' th'ole,run hot water.test. if too hot add enough cold whiie mixing to get temp. desired
I think I've landed in the separate camp but my new house has mixers.
🇬🇧My drinking water comes straight from the mains to cold water taps, with no risk of contamination from hot water, so it is safe to drink and never lukewarm. I will stick with separate taps.
I don't like mixer taps and find they waste water.
Oh glorious leader, we worship at your faucet and will follow where you lead.
Your trust and devotion will pay off in a life of ease and convenience and perfect-temperature hand-washing!
Nothing wrong with having two taps.
Everything is wrong how you even use that for god sake
My mum’s place was built about 12 years ago and has individual taps in the bathroom sink. My place on the other hand has electronically controlled mixer taps.
Loved this video. It was absolutely hilarious.
I have the old system, I just put the plug in, turn the hot tap on, the water in the pipe which has gone cold is sufficient to provide a useful temperature when combined with the hotter water that follows it.
While I admit we only have mixer taps in our house, the possession of individual tap in a British birth right enshrined in ancient plumbing regulations. If you try to remove them you will have to prize my metaphorical taps from my scalded and freezing hands.
If you took time to read the Water Byelaws, you'd understand that the reason for using two taps is all about differential water pressure and the need to avoid cross contamination. This mainly applies to older houses (older than around 15 years in 2022) but not those which have been fitted with combination boilers (which are in themselves the work of the Devil and usually totally unsuitable for the applications to which they are put but this is another story).
The easiest way of overcoming the issue of cross contamination is to install what's known as a double check valve to the potable cold supply to that outlet (tap) but that doesn't overcome the differential pressure problem (the difference between the potable cold mains pressure and the domestic hot water pressure). The differential can be so great that the house will flood if the two taps are opened at the same time and for long enough, via the cold water storage 'tank' (technically it's a cistern) in the loft or high in the airing cupboard. The flooding issue can again, be overcome by installing a single check valve to the domestic hot water pipework on the supply to the tap but this will further restrict the volumetric flow rate of the domestic hot water, so isn't worth it.
Encouraging people to change their taps to mixer taps opens up a nest of vipers, because most taps of this type are not designed to run on low pressure applications (which is applicable to around 75% of UK properties) and due to changes in Legislation related to the maximum permissible volumetric flow rate of taps installed in the UK around 10 years ago, it's now almost impossible to buy taps which will do the job properly unless you know what you're looking for.
Next time you open a mixer tap and something slightly more than a weak trickle of water coughs and splutters its way from the outlet, think 'incorrectly designed tap for the application to which it's been put' or 'I can piss faster than this, it must be the wrong tap for the job'.
Please note that if you wish to speak sensibly about the UK's complex and highly regulated plumbing sector and open up the mysteries of why plumbing and /or central heating is installed in the way it is, the easiest thing to do is to go to your local college and take a course in the subject, otherwise you're just talking bollocks and all the theorising in the world won't answer you're questions.
Bah humbug 🧐 Anti-mixertap member here 😉
One thing you've all forgotten about is when an old swivel mt leaks and when the central joint goes you have (after youve isolated it) no water from that tap. Now if you had two and a sealing washer went you've still got the other tap. 🤪🧐
Thank you, I asked for tap merch and now I have ordered a T Shirt, this makes me irrationally happy.
You're the best John! Hope you enjoy! A fun project on dreary winter days and I'm definitely wearing mine out to the supermarket next week!
My parents house that we moved into in 1985 and was built in the 20's had mixer taps back then. In fact most houses I've been in over the years also had them. Something I must say is that we never ever got instantly boiling hot water from a hot tap! You always had to run it for a few seconds at least. The toilets at my workplace have separate taps and I can comfortably wash my hands under the hot tap without scalding them and I'm always amused when the "scalding/freezing" exaggeration is made in videos about the subject.
We just moved from an old house to a new build. I literally hugged the sinks with the mixer taps. Oh, and my dishwasher! I’m on Team Mixer Tap!
Mixer taps are better in the bathroom, separate are better in the kitchen. I have learned this the hard way, having just installed a mixer tap in the kitchen. I used to be able to fill the kettle with cold water _whilst also_ still filling the sink with hot water. Much more time-efficient. I also keep trying to get myself a glass of water, and finding that there was still some hot sat inside the tap, so I get gross lukewarm water and have to tip it out.
That's plus 1 for separate, minus 1 for mixers.
...and you were doing so well with your Anglo integration.
Ah, well, fun fitting in while it lasted! ;)
My house has mixer taps and it was built in the 1930's - Please remember older buildings may not be able to change if they are a listed building - (Look under Grade 2 listed buildings for a full explanation)- Linked to keeping a historical look - for example you might not be able to change the style of windows etc - or alter / extend the property depending on the rules behind it - may have some historical or style of architecture of some significance. Remember this should you ever decide to buy a property that states this - for example your next stately home.
Really fun video, Team mixer tap here. My house is relatively modern and all the sinks have mixers. Would never go back to separate taps now. Don’t really get why people get so defensive when you profess your dislike for separate taps. Hopefully they appreciate the light hearted nature of this video.
"Plumbing the depths here" I'm lukewarm on this spouting. I'm neutral, mixer sink and separate bath and wash basin.
Separate taps are just tradition. Remember that well into the '60s, many houses didn't have hot water, or a bathroom. Old people will still refer to the local swimming pool as the swimming baths. You went there for your baths. Most terraces used to share common toilets, later they would have their own in the back yard
I live in a relatively modern house in the UK and everything has mixer taps, so it's clearly catching on. It's just the sheer number of old style sinks in the UK which are keeping separate taps alive. I'd happily get rid of them forever.
Yes, our house built in the 80s was fully mixer taps!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial my house was built 4 years ago and while the kitchen and upstairs bathroom sinks have mixer taps, for some reason the downstairs toilet has seperate taps...and I hate it!! lol
I was born in 1957, in the 1960’s through to the early 1980’s it was still considered healthier for separate taps in kitchens and bathrooms. Work places that had mixer taps, had to have a clearly marked drinking tap, a lot of this was due to cost of upgrading plumbing. I think the change came in the mid eighties when the Health & Safety executive made it ok for mixer taps in general use, but even today, you’ll still find in some office kitchens a separate drinking water tap
Can I just ask, when you are using these mixer taps are you putting the plug in the sink when you are using the water, or are you using the water as it running down the plug hole?
So if you are using a mixer tap and letting the water constantly run down the plug hole that’s not saving water is it now?
Do you take a bath or a shower? Which uses less water?
@@nicks4934. I have to take showers because my bathroom is a wet room. Yes showers are more economical then a bath, but did you know that when you have a 5 minute shower you use 75 litres of water, the average bath holds about 80 litres of water.
I have separate tapes on my bathroom sink and my hot water comes out of a water tank, of which I can set the temperature of my hot water to my satisfaction, so I don’t need to use the cold water. I only use the cold water when I’m cleaning my teeth.
So at the end of the day it’s all comes down to common sense.
@@timglennon6814 There is always the option from the old days of the whole family using the same bath water, Dad first, then Mum followed by the kids. Friday night was bath night.
@@tonys1636. Those were the days. 😂
My grandma lives in a modern apartment building owned by the council. She has to have split taps and when i asked about it they said its to stop Legionnaires' disease as the tap connection allows hot water to mix with the main water supply or something dont get it but its council so probably some laws they have to follow that domestic homes dont have to. But im definitely team mixer so hard to wash hands and the amount of water wasted trying to get the temperature right filling the sink to wash dishes
No matter that you can put up a unshakable case for mixer taps, as I was born in 1934 and the erroneous view that drinking from a hot/ cold mix is just wrong, I have a mixer tap, My house was built 20 years ago It may be illogical, even although I make sure that the tap is put on the cold water position only, I still feel the dread of lead pipes when drinking from a mixer!
Team separate taps, even if it's the 'wrong' choice ;)
+1 for Team Mixer Tap. You have to be gentle with a bathroom tap
. Don’t faucet
Coming with the jokes, Daniel! Welcome to the team!
If you want a vague water temperature you go for the mixed tap. I like to know that my water will be hot when I want to scold myself
14 years ago we moved into our house. We said we wanted to update the bathroom first...... Today it's the only room we haven't updated and it's the only room with separate taps rather than a mixer tap.
I don't know why the previous owner got separated taps in in the first place, because the hot water is on demand from the boiler. I think he just updated the bathroom in the cheapest way possible before he sold the house.
I'm not sure why this is such a big thing. I haven't lived in a house with separate taps for over 30 years. They are very rare these days. I can't recall the last time I saw separate taps.
You can still buy them. Some people like the retro look. Our current house (built in the early sixties) has some mixer and some separate taps Our previous house (1840-ish) had all mixer taps - a previous owner had replaced them all.
Here in Australia like the UK I grew up (in the 60's etc) with the two seperate taps. Remodelling in the 90's we had two knobs with a single spout. My new house has "mixer" taps similar the one I can see behind you in the video. I have to say that the 2 knobs (1/4 turn) with a single rotatable spout is my preferred option as the more modern does not give as much instant control of flow or ratio of hot to cold. Still a "mixer" tap system but different. The lever action in some examples is too easily moved by accident especially in my shower!
You do occasionally still come across separate taps in older US houses and apartment buildings. My grandparents had separate taps in their bathroom when I was a child in the 80s. Their house was a post war bungalow in the mid west/ north east. They did at some point upgrade to mixers at some point in my childhood. My personal biggest cultural sticking point with the UK is anyone who complains about spiders or random neighbor's cats in their house. Well, if you had window screens...
I was going to comment to say Brits say attic too, I've always said attic, loft feels weird but I googled it and loft and attic have different meanings. Attic is a space in the roof which uses a ladder to reach and is used for storage. Loft is a (usually converted) room in the roof with a fixed stairway to get to.
So if you ask for water at a restaurant, you ask for a glass of faucet water?
And anyone who thinks drinking water from the cold tap is safe has clearly never lived in the Northwest UK🤣🤣🤣
As you raised the historic agenda then the water byelaws in UK were highly advanced during the Victorian era and into 20thC, which culminated in The Water Council Regulations that were fixated on contamination of the mains cold water supply. Hot water has to be stored at 60-65degC so as to prevent bacteria growth and therefore any mixing of the hot and the cold supply to reduce the temperature was seen as something to be avoided. Such stringent rules were for public safety without compromise. Membership of EU resulted in the 'watering down' (sic) of the Water Council Regs allowing seemingly inferior taps to be widely available.
Single lever mixer taps are now very common although they have inferior flow due to the small flex connections and are reliant on sophisticated materials i.e. ceramic discs, to maintain any semblance of reliability. It is no coincidence that in general mixer taps are around 4-5 times the price of a pair of single taps. Given the relaxation of the Water Council Regs the probable reason that single taps are fitted to modern homes lies purely because they are so cheap and utterly reliable. In existing houses the other consideration in fitting a single lever mixer tap is that the existing wash basins with two holes for taps would have to be changed to accommodate a single central position mixer tap.
One last point worth noting is that one of the most deadly bacteria that has emerged in the last decades was Legionella that was first encountered by attendees of the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia in 1976 in poor hygiene water systems and Air Con. Apart from being found in medium temperature cooling systems, it is now found in swimming pools and domestic water supplies.
Yes seperate taps are the most pathetic thing about UK homes, nothing worse than trying to wash hands before the water gets too hot and burns you, or just wash in cold water being unhygienic, We need to get with the times.
the reason for separate taps hot and cold was the header tank in a hot water system the header tank had water that was cold and NOT free flowing with greater risk of legionnaires disease from the water in the header tank, that's why the uk had separate taps because of the risk of legionnaires disease, modern building do not have this problem because the modern hot water systems do not have a header tank
The hot runs cold first on my f and e system. Loft or attic, both used by me.
Ten out of ten for calling it a basin. Also the two waters can only mix outside of spout and not in the spout.
For the hater who tried to use the environment as an excuse.
There are many mixer taps with 2 handles (can’t think of the right word), so you can turn on only cold or only hot. However it’s much easier to regulate the combined flow of hot and cold when they are coming out of 1 tap.
Also- how is filling up a sink to wash your face saving water? Because wouldn’t you have to drain soapy water and then refill the basin with clean water to rinse your ands or face? Wasteful!!!!!!!
#TeamMixerTap
I’m gonna get a shirt for my trip to London and shake things up! 😂🚰
I am about to commit an unforgivable sin, that is commenting on an old thread of yours in your latest post. I was reading your observation and assessment on the NHS, and I could hardly believe the volume of response created, and I was hard pressed to find many negative comments from your readers. you view was informed and wide ranging,
I think we can all agree that a mixer tap on a bidet is the only sensible option.
A lot of British people prefer to mix the water in the sink/basin, and the sink shouldn't be dirty in the first place!
Two taps allow a more precise heat in the basin.
How is juggling with a lever easier than putting the plug in the plug hole and running the two taps until the temperature`s correct?
I think it depends on what you are used to. My kitchen used to have a mixer tap but I found it a nuisance and fiddly to use. So when the kitchen was refitted, I reverted to separate hot and cold taps.
Very interesting! A true anti-mixer-tapper on our hands!
There is some right codswallop going on in the comments. All you have to do is cut off the pipes below the old ones and fit the mixer tap adaptor. Unfortunately the pipes then lead though a single tap hole (depending on the unit used which means a much much smaller pipes and a reduced flow). This happens anyway due to the single outlet.A neighbor did a lovely conversion to his bath which his wife insisted he pur back due to the time it took to fill the bath. There is also the risk of the hot water which has gone through a heater and maybe a tank contaminating the cold water..
Not every home in the UK has separate hot and cold taps, we have always had mixer tap but I agree that mixer taps are better, separate taps are in more older homes.
In the nineteen seventies Britain actually produced a feature film that in part tried to address this very issue. The 'Carry On' films are a part of British legend (would make an excellent topic if you are looking for future projects). They are a sort of 'postcard' humour that many still fondly remember as a part of our culture.
'Carry On, At Your Convenience', was the story of a bathroom 'furniture' maker, W.C.Boggs & Son, who were as was typical in the seventies, heavily weighed down with union trouble, and trying to introduce a mixed faucet into it's latest ranges. The unions didn't like it though, as the man who fitted the 'cold' tap, and the man who fitted the 'hot' tap could not agree who should fit the 'mixed' tap. Worth a watch as an alternative view on this vexed subject.
This is fascinating!!! Will check it out, that sounds very funny.
I’m British and never lived in a house with separate taps. Iv witnessed them in other locations, but definitely pro ‘mixer tap’
I have both lol separate in the kitchen mixer taps in the bathroom
I'm really weary of this taps debate. Can we all just accept that the UK and US have different systems and we all have our personal preferences? And we should be extremely grateful that we have fresh running water from any kind of tap when so many people in the world don't.
I dont know no why they still do this in Britain, everytime I've had a new kitchen , in different houses ,I've bought mixer taps. And combie boilers fitted .to put these still in new builds. Is mind boggling.
What brought you to the U.K.? Are you still here?
I would keep the separate taps just for the sake of historical value. If you keep the sink clean it’s not hard fill the basin with warm water. 🤷♀️ but it takes my water about 15 minutes to warm up anyway so maybe I just take my mixer taps for-granted for that reason. 👀😳🤣😬
Living in New York I was raised in plenty of apartments that had separate faucets and I have to admit I always found it annoying. They still do exist but from speaking to a plumber he said that all the piping would need to be replaced in the walls in order to be able to weld with the "new" copper piping. Landlords would not make the change due to the expense.
Ah, yes, that's the same problem here with people getting mixers because the plumbing all has to be changed. They are annoying!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial what's also funny, the water that comes out of faucets is called tap water. I wonder if that was British influence.
Nice T-shirt! But I agree that if your house plumbing been replaced any time since the second world war, mixer taps are the way to go.
After month of having my ear blasted by my gf I had to install a mixer tap in our new the bathroom sink.....
Not going to lie I do prefer the mixer tap because it's a simple leaver....
But I'm not going to tell her this 😂😂😉
GO MIXERS!!
In my house I have mixture of mixer taps and separate taps and I manage just fine I don’t think one is easier than the other I just get on with it and in truth I prefer my separate taps it’s just my house came with mixers I wouldn’t purposely change my taps to mixers.
It's because hot water comes from the tank so the water could be contaminated and I think the system is the same so we're still safer to use 2 taps
A topic so mind numbing
Is down to the plumbing
the main was the cold
in the housea of old
from a tank came the hot
In one pressure was high
for the hot it was not
Mixing could bring trouble
and get your flows in a muddle
Having the cold water separate is to prevent contamination.
Now, since we moved in my house 30+ years ago, we redecorated but not renovated until…..8/9 years ago when we decided to build a brand extension in the driveway, knock a big hole in the kitchen wall and make a biiiig kitchen, a downstairs toilet n shower and jig around with the upstairs bathroom etc - RESULTAHHHHH! 👍🏻 lots of new things and appliances to buy and in keeping with “modern times” the builders and plumbers installed “mixer” taps … ohhh…🥺😩 ….so now, if I want a glass of COLD water. I have to turn the “mixer” nonsense on, turn the knob to the right, and wait for COLD water to come through as there is always a cup of warm ish water in the outlet….likewise if I want HOT water, turn the knob to the left and wait for the warm to hot water to come through…. ‘Deep sigh’ and…not sure if this applies to the USA but did you know it is the “law” on mixer taps to always have hot water coming through when the tap is turned to the left and cold on the right? The builder/plumber bloke told me that 😉 … so sorry Kaylyn but I’m not joining your club or buying a tee shirt (that would be pointless) as I am a solid “two taps are perfect, logical and sensible” kind of gal…. 😀😂
We haven't had separate taps for a long time, but one complaint of European mixer taps is that they incorporate ever-more flow restrictors in the faucet/tap. The ludicrously expensive 'designer' taps that we have fitted recently are totally underwhelming in use, I ended peering up the spout thinking "is that it"?
It has become a battle with the manufacturers and grumpy users like me in discovering ways to defeat their flow restrictors. The old separate taps made a satisfying 'whoosh' when they opened, as faucets still do in the USA, that has been reduced to an unconvincing, silent, dribble in Europe.
I have a mixer tap in my kitchen and dual taps in my bathroom. I have to admit I use the kitchen more, to wash my hands.
I'm the same. But it's definitely on my to do list. Team Mixer for me😎
I love the pain of freezing cold water or scalding hot on my hands 😂😂.
Spoken like a true Brit! ;)
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial I really hate separates! I fitted mixers in my 1970s refurbed house.
You look fantastic in a t shirt
Two taps look better. And with a combi boiler, the usual gas method of heating water, you have washed your hands before it even gets warm, let alone dangerously hot. Nasty cycloptic things, mixer taps. I am Team Two Taps,especially vintage style in an Edwardian bath tub on legs. And who wants a hideous modern single tap in their beautiful porcelain Belfast sink? People should have what they like, of course, but I am firmly in the separate hot-cold camp.
Please tell me that isn't black mould on the blue toothbrush. Lol. 😭
Now let's argue, one knob or two, on the mixer facet. With separate knobs you can wash cold only. The single knob/lever is easier for controlling the hot-cold mix to get the right temperature.
Hiya. Obviously, hotel rooms, commercial kitchens, hospitals and the like is a different scenario, but, Irrespective of the taps, don't people know they can adjust the temperature of their DOMESTIC hot water at source? i.e. their boiler and/or hot water tank? Then mixing is unnecessary, even with a mixer set-up, and having two taps isn't a problem. A mixer does look good and rather 'flash', though, I must admit. Cool t-shirt, too, btw. Stay safe. All the best to you.
When you have separate hot and cold taps all you have to do is to INSERT THE PLUG and then mix the hot and cold water to the required temperature. IT’S SO EASY, no problem at all !!!!!!!!!!
😂 common sense isn’t very common anymore is it.
@@krissyg7026 😂😂
Two taps always. But I suppose your used to one.
Mixer taps make more sense, but I'm not waiting for the hot water to come though whichever type I'm using.
Bats poop into our loft tank. At least they do when the plumber inadvertently leaves the lid off after he has been fettling the valves therein. I don't fancy cleaning my teeth in a diluted solution of bat poop.
My American family have two taps on a single faucet in their kitchen sink of their new house, which is positively prehistoric compared with the sort that we have. They also have those pull-out hose things which they use to wash the dishes BEFORE they put them in the washer.
I asked my American daughter-in-law why they wash their dirty dishes by hand before they get a machine to do it and she said that American dishwashers and drains can't hack washing dirty plates. So why don't Americans design dishwashers and organise their drains like we have in the UK?
Just as you have reluctantly adjusted to British plumbing, I now dutifully wash dirty plates by hand for no good reason when in the USA, to the nodding approval of my daughter-in-law as she watches on.
When in Rome, do as the Romans, ...as they say.
I still refuse to believe people actually fill the bowl to wash their hands. I just wash my hands using the cold water and never use the hot water. Most of the time it's never cold enough to be unpleasant.
I actually would understand this a lot more if people just said they use the cold water! It's the filling up the bowl to wash their hands that gets me, too! You can't possibly argue that it's easier! You just can't! Thanks for watching :D
Lets just be honest, I am too lazy and tight to change taps unless they are broken, so if my house had separate taps that's what we used, (had a few different houses over the years) also, even if a tap broke I wouldn't have bought a mixer tap because it would have required a new basin/sink as well. Way to much effort required so Id just replace the broken tap. Must say though, my shower is a mixer tap and it drives me bonkers because its either too hot or too cold and doesn't have a middle, even if I found the middle once it moves. Its evil. Team Any Tap for me...
Just wash your hands and face in cold water. Lol! 💪
Nobody asks why people are putting so much wasted heat energy into hot water they immediately cool down when they want to use it... What do they need scalding hot water for? Can you tell me that?
A great point, Dave!
@@postie48 Mine are lagged, short run pipes for hot water - like most places, and since radiators are about dispensing heat lagging their recirculating system seems kinda counterproductive, don't you think, their function after all is to distribute heat around the house...
It doesn't answer why many heat water to 50-60°C only to drop it to about 35-40°C to use... So why mix hot and cold when hot alone can do the job - if set correctly? It's a simple question, yet unanswered. What is all this scalding hot water you keep talking about for?
It's a little exercise called lateral thinking because there is rarely one solution to any problem, if it is a problem... My way you cut your bills, and don't pay out thousands in new kitchen/bathroom fixtures and there is no problem... Rational, logical, practical and cheap... Do you see the benefits yet???
As for your problem getting hot water after 2 minutes, it sounds to me like you didn't plan very well, my boiler is the other side of the wall to my kitchen and immediately below the bathroom, so I get hot water when I want it, it sounds like you made the mistake in design and implementation... I don't think you can argue the taps are to blame for cold water anyway...
@@postie48 do you see the subject matter of this post? The argument for mixer taps is to add cold to "scalding hot water"...
Complaining about rented accommodation is like complaining to a food bank, you get what you rent!
Anything pre-war is retrofitted at minimal cost, anything from the 1860's is probably solid walls and fireplaces in every room, why are you here posting about this when we're talking mixer taps?
@@daveofyorkshire301 It is supposed to be a light hearted subject!
@@postie48 Why are you taking this so seriously then? But it helps to be discussing the same subject, light-hearted or not, don't you think?
Maybe you've never heard of pubs. The perfect place to spend a cold winter's day!! Can you start a new group to show Americans how to use a knife and fork properly instead of looking like monkeys taking physics lessons!! Just a hint for future video's.
Ha!!! You'll be glad to know I converted to British fork and knife use as soon as I moved here and still use it in both countries to this day.
Proper fork and knife use video is definitely on the cards. :)
War!
Not fork and knife, but knife and fork.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Why not spoon and fork like sensible people in Asia?
There is still a legal requirement in the UK for at least one tap (usually in the Kitchen) that must be fed directly from the cold mains supply.
By the way, please be careful when pointing to your t-shirt, and therefore your "lady bumps" and shouting "mixer taps"! Just sayin' lol.
Hate that we have separate taps but it's a rented property so we can't change them.... along with the 80s clam shell bathroom suite!
In avocado?
Personally I'm on team plunger plug. I can't be doing with pop up, spinny plugs or plugs on chains.
wait what was the question again?
I can't wait till TeamMixer get taken down by a terrible scandal so we can go back to what we like and are used to!!!!!!!! lol!
I don`t mind separate taps, but mixer taps are better.
T.M.T. T.M.T. T.M.T......Go Kalyn lol. 😎
Glad to hear you're part of the team, Stevie! (or are you an undercover spy...hmmm?!) ;)
Defo' not a spy, mate. 🖖
I'm sure ive seen separate hot and cold taps in US bathrooms.... i know i have.
I never understand this argument. The hot tap in my house has never been too hot. It's always been the perfect temperature (when I used a boiler/hot water tank, and now with a combi boiler). Why use two taps with one too hot? It so much easier to just have one tap that's the right temperature.
Good point. My combi-boiler allows me to set the temperature of the hot water, so it's set to the 'right' temperature for me. What's the point in overheating it just to then add cold water to cool it down?
LOL - the Americans are coming!
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But I still find mixer taps annoying.
Hahaha get your priorities right, tea or a large gin? Ah have both, sorted.
You are, of course, entirely wrong for reasons to obvious to go into. But I've bought the T'Shirt anyway ;-)
Ha! Appreciate your support of me if not the mixer taps. You'll have to wear it in secret so no one gets the wrong impression of your true values!
Good Video, great catch up on technical reasons why two taps were preferred and when mixer taps were invented. Well done. BUT my house my choice. Get thee behind me Satan! (Actually changing my taps would mean changing the bath, the bathroom sink, and the kitchen sink.) PS Subtitles are not working - So not safe for us deaf people!
Your house your choice indeed. ;) Sorry about that, I usually run it through subtitle maker as soon as I have the video up but have been running around this afternoon. Will get that fixed ASAP!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial 🙂
You may wish to change "Hold" to "Hot" in the title???
Ah, you've missed the most important point probably, see 4:05, you have already established the UK hot system was gravity fed at a quite low pressure and usually through larger pipes too because of that. If you try a simple low tech non-thermostatically controlled mix then the vastly higher pressure cold simply stops the hot flowing or worse back-fills the system until there is an attic overflow in the header tank. UK didn't ever go for high pressure capable hot storage cylinders but with the relatively recent advent of "combi" instant heaters, to which you refer, then this can now be done and this is where you find mixer taps. Thermostatically controlled mixer taps with legal protection standards would, in the UK, be prohibitively expensive.
Of course, should the mains supply be cut, as can happen, then with a simple mixer the vacuum generated with the failed cold supply would draw potentially contaminated hot back into the cold drinking system. Loft tanks did have lids though but loose enough to let air in, that also allowed for the some 7% expansion of water when heated in the storage tank without a very clever valve system.
I live in France, we do have mains pressurised hot storage tanks and fed via an expensive and complex valve, the groupe de sécurité.
This only admits water one way to protect the clean cold supply but as the tank heats and the water expands, it has a sprung reverse bypass valve that allows the expansion volume to be discharged to waste. We all have simple mixer taps therefore as the hot and cold is at the same pressure.
A fun video, however I have never found separate taps to be a problem. My flat has a mixer tap in my kitchen and separate taps in my bathroom. It’s not an issue for me. Sorry, I won’t be joining team mixer.
We'll miss you on the team but glad your life is happy as is! I feel like mixers in the kitchen and separate in the bathroom is very common.
Separate taps are exciting. Mixer taps are boring and have no character. They make life far more interesting. Separate taps are a sign of of how cool you are (cool as in groovy! Not cool as in water - obviously). Mixer taps have no soul. Separate taps are far out (far out as in groovy (again), not as in distance).
*Team separates always.*
For those wondering why we didn't put a lid on the tank. Gravity..
If you've ever put a straw in water, with your finger on the top. The water doesn't flow until you remove your finger.. Simples..
And for those that are lazy like those Yanks.. Use the plug.. Thats what it's for.. D'oh !
All you need is a small hole in the lid, problem solved.
@@bjarkih1977 You've got it! I'm on team mixer. I've Converted all my husbands British family, and proud of it 🤭
Two faucets are an extra source of income for plumbers. It's an insidious, industry conspiracy to tap into extra money.
This evil spy does not agree. xxx