Hot, cold, and somewhere between

[exploreparadise2]

This faucet arrangement was in a 1920s building. Turn enough valves and you can have just hot water, just cold water, or warm water when they meet in the middle. It all worked fine.

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[hspinnler]

Thanks for sharing. We made it all here in the USA back then.

[John Kogel]

It's a clever arrangement, but it's also easy to see why it never caught on.

You can get pure hot or pure cold by simply using one of the upper taps. [:-graduat

That nickel-plated brass was bad for the economy. It never needed replacing.

Much better now that we're buying Chinese fixtures, eh?[]

[David Meiland]

Can you? Or do you have to open one of the bottom taps to get any water at all?

[John Kogel]

Can you? Or do you have to open one of the bottom taps to get any water at all?

Wouldn't be so clever, then, would it?

[Jim Baird]

I like it, but Martha Stewart would not.