Actually, it is *supposed* to be the other way round.
As a construction-y person, the way it was taught to me was thus:

As the majority of people are right handed, the cold tap goes on the right so that, when absent-mindedly turning on a tap first thing in the morning and still half asleep, you will use your right hand and accordingly turn on the cold tap. This is to stop you possibly scalding yourself.

Or it could just be because builders are cunts and they want to wake you with the shock of cold water...
(dxg, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 22:34, 1 reply)

Then can you tell me....
... in your capacity as someone who knows these things...

Our bath is plumbed "backwards" with the cold on the LHS. My wife once said she thought this was deliberate because baths were always plumbed with the cold on the "outside" (furthest from the wall) so that little kiddies who might be able to reach the taps can only reach the cold side. Do you know if this is true? If it's not, it should be - very good plan I thought.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 17:51, closed)