Talk:2704: Faucet

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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)