It’s Like Some Sort Of Handwashing Device…
Submitted By: Checotah
Favorite Comment: Fixer norsie says, “It’s like one of those finger traps…but for a faucet.”
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Nice! I can finally rinse my hands in a steady stream of rust and not feel cheated for getting that tetanus shot!
Copper does not rust. The stain is probably from the iron content in the water.
watch out for that errant stream aiming at your crotch
Cloudy with a chance of showers.
Is the kludge the device that mixes the streams of water, or the handwashing device that forces you to choose either all cold or all hot?
Both, of course!
If you’ve ever been in an older house that had separate faucets like this, you’d have dreamed of hooking this up.
When visiting my grandmother, you’d have to move your hands back and forth between the cold and the scalding hot water while washing them… This would have been a very welcome addition to any and all sinks in her home.
I guess it was designed just to fill the sink, then wash your hands in the sink. It’s todays decadence to wash hands under flowing water…
functional AND attractive. What more could you want?
Indeed. It’s that rustic look I’ve been trying to achieve, totally handcrafted and made in America.
Rustic look, with emphasis on the rust.
This would probably be very steampunk-esque if not for all the rust.
Fail! Incomplete. Needs another 3″ stub of pipe off the tee, and a 90 Ell for the ‘spout’ – see wet crotch comment above.
Machine a threaded adapter for a faucet aerator out of a cast brass Drop Ear Ell, and then it’s a Win.
Show-off.
It’s good to see that somebody has put in the extra effort to use their plumbing skills to solder this contraption together. The results are so much better than when lazy idiots decide to just replace both taps with a single mixer tap, leaving one side of the sink with an ugly capping-off cover where the tap used to be.
Just install a soap dispenser in the errant hole.
The first thing that comes to mind is the Kohler commercial:
“Design a house around this.”
here is the house designed around this kludge:
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/10/31/how-long-did-it-take-to-find-containers-to-match-the-trim/#comments
Wow. I was thinking the SAME THING. that picture just stuck in my mind like no other on this site.
Looks like someone finally got tired of washing one hand in 100% hot and the other in 100% cold.
Ahh – British plumbing! In my travels to the UK I have frequently stayed in places where this was the design – it has something to do with how they pressurize the pipes. It always frustrates me – and I’ve thought of this ‘fix’ almost every time I have traveled there and wondered why they don’t do this UNDER the sink.
At my school (in the UK), they fixed the “Oh my God it burns!” problem that arises from having separate hot and cold taps by installing non-adjustable thermostatic mixer valves under all the sinks, which turned the all hot taps into health-and-safety-approved, temperature-regulated, warm taps. This proved to be frustrating when trying to wash up paint brushes and the like, where a good burst of skin-peeling, steamy hot water is exactly what you need.
Incidentally there is no reason why you cannot have a hot/cold mixer tap on British plumbing. I have two at home, but for some reason they don’t seem to have been very popular in bathrooms until the late ’90s.
Took until the 1990′s, huh?
No wonder the Brits don’t have their empire anymore.
In the not uncommon case where the cold water is from the mains, and the hot from whatever, then most ‘bathroom’ mixer taps, which mix the water straight after the valves, are illegal (supposedly because of the potential of backflow of hot water into the mains supply). ‘Kitchen’ mixer taps have two internal pipes in the spout, so that the water does not mix until after it has exited the nozzle.
However, there’s no reason other than styling you can’t use a kitchen mixer in the bathroom.
Right. Anyone who has had to wash hands on the old continent knows that this is a godsend. Life without mixers is hell.
No more frostbite on my right hand and blisters on my left!
I did something like this in a long-ago apartment, except I used a plastic garden-hose Y (with another piece of hose for the mixed water), instead of a copper T.
You’re getting warmer…
Out side of the rubber taste it aint to bad.
If it works, it works.
My dad did this in our cabin in upstate New York in the 70s. I thought he was a genius. I still do. Ours wasn’t rusty, though, and it had a nicer spigot. I prefer kludges like these to spending my hard-earned money on shiny bathroom fixtures.
I think that guy is on to something, he needs to patent and sell the idea. But seriously, I have that identical sink in my apartment, rust stains and all. The rust is from the sink itself since it is cast iron. Gotta love sinks manufactured in 1939 (the date stamped on the bottom of mine) by the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company.
same problem in australia and new zealand. I can’t understand why british empire exported this kind of nonsense all around the world.
Wiggles and TW: That’s got to be an artifact of older UK Plumbing Codes, where they could have a separate supply for the hot from a cistern or a stove boiler tank, and the cold from city mains.
In the US we run everything off the same cold supply, either from city water mains or a well. The water heater has the same pressure, so the hot water isn’t going to ‘backfeed’ to the cold. Mixing inside the faucet is a non-issue.
Unless you use an “Instant Hot” circulation pump under the farthest sink in the house, to deliberately pump a small flow out of the Hot line and back into the Cold and keep the Hot water lines hot. Cuts a three-minute wait for hot water to five seconds.
Actually its from Columbia SC… Didn’t know I had gone abroad! Lol
This is what I feel like doing every time I go to England. Just give me warm water coming out of one spigot already! None of this scalding hot or ice cold, mixing in the bowl to get the right temperature crap.
It’s like one of those finger traps…but for a faucet.
“Ah, yes! The frankenfaucet is assembled! Now we just need electricity, Igor!”
I live in the US and have this in my apartment. (It’s a historical house). I have dreamed of something like this. Especially now that winter is here, the hot water gets burning hot real quickly and the cold water is just too icy.
“If yore washsink acts like Madonna, wear’n insides out, you might be a redneck…”
Thats cool, oops hot, no cool, damn its hot, no wait its cool.
I’ve actually seen this, I know the exact bathroom and I’ve used it many times over many years. It works just fine, too!
“With our powers combined…”