Talk:2704: Faucet
Are faucet designs considered to be confusing? I'm never confused by normal ones like these
Yeah I came here wondering the same thing. Is the joke perhaps not so much that the controls are confusing in terms of intent, but just in terms of determining the bounds? Eg, with two identical faucet controls and identical water pressures, "full blast hot" still translates to something radically different, if one building has a water heater set to 120F and the other building has a water heater set to 160F. 172.69.170.189 (talk) 02:46, 29 November 2022 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- (I find °F confusing, personally, but...) ...the easiest thing is to have two taps, one hot and one cold. Yes, they can combine into a single spout, but there are various conflicting plusses and minuses of that over having the two independent ones per outlet. Speaking (as I'm sure mixer-tap afficionados worldwide will appreciate) as a Brit. 172.70.85.24 03:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- Relevant Tom Scott video: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps. TL;DR: British houses used to get their hot water from rat-filled cisterns so they wanted to keep the hot water separate from the cold water, and old habits die hard. 162.158.63.152 03:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- Silliness of dual-taps aside, that doesn't solve the issue of identical tap hardware yielding radically different results depending on what the hot water thermostat is set to. Maybe that's not the original joke (I'm still not sure what it was) but it's worth mentioning at least. 172.69.170.146 03:39, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- Relevant Tom Scott video: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps. TL;DR: British houses used to get their hot water from rat-filled cisterns so they wanted to keep the hot water separate from the cold water, and old habits die hard. 162.158.63.152 03:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
I sympathize with Randall here; even controls designed to independently control temperature and flow rarely meet both the "intuitive to use at a glance" and "function as described" requirements to make them non-confusing. Dextrous Fred (talk) 03:44, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be super simple to just have a slider that goes from hot to cold, and a second one that goes from slow to fast flow? Or one for hot, one for cold, with the higher the slider goes, the more the flow is increased? I don't see how much simpler you can get it. Hell, you could even use a dial for temperature (all dials turn clockwise to increase) with a digital readout. 172.70.131.44 05:25, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
