Bath Taps

[codswallop166]

I've just bought a new pair of bath taps,every tap that i've bought before they each close clock-wise and turn on the opposite.The hot tap I've bought does it vise versa any ideas please?

[Hopkirk]

It's quite common these days for hot and cold to turn opposite ways.
Often it's with a lever, push out to close, pull to the middle to run the water

[Tilly2]

Was the tap produced in the Southern Hemisphere?

[bobbinwales]

Are they left handed? There's someone at work uses a left handed tape measure and left handed scissors

[Etch]

Your new taps are fitted with "ceramic valves", explained here:
https://www.diydata.com/plumbing/ceramic_taps/ceramic_taps.php
Note para 5: "The quarter turn is normally 'handed' when a pair are purchased - i.e. one tap turns clockwise to open, while the other tap turns anticlockwise. This can take some getting used to."

[codswallop166]

Thanks for your replies I had an inkling ,with the lever type taps that you suggested Hopkirk,that would be the answer.Takes some getting used to though!!

[The Builder]

^^^ That's just what I was thinking. Quarter-turn taps.

[Tilly2]

Our new, downstairs toilet taps turn the opposite way. I think that's how it goes these days.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest.

[Hopkirk]

In hospitals they have them with long levers on. When surgeons have thoroughly washed their hands they can turn the taps off by pushing with their elbows. Touching the taps might contaminate the hands again.