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**ceeker** · 01-24-2008, 10:06 PM

Actually I have seen this happen!

I'm in building maintenance and we have had this happen before.

A mop sink had a double faucets and the tied together to fit a hose to fill mop buckets. If someone left the taps on the hot water was tied into the cold, so since hot water runs at a higher pressure, the hot water would after a few hours be coming out of both taps.

I know some of you may not believe this, but I have seen this happen more than once. A tap was left on over night and we have a 6 story office building with 14 restrooms. All the taps had hot water coming out of all the taps.

Granted we have a hot water boiler with a circulating pump, but would this work in a home environment?... Plausable...

You must connect the two taps together so the hot will run into the cold side, the explanation above does seam a bit odd though. All you would need to do is connect one set of taps together, hot and cold, then turn them on!

01-24-2008, 10:06 PM	#6 (permalink)
ceeker Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 561 My Photos: (16)	Actually I have seen this happen! I'm in building maintenance and we have had this happen before. A mop sink had a double faucets and the tied together to fit a hose to fill mop buckets. If someone left the taps on the hot water was tied into the cold, so since hot water runs at a higher pressure, the hot water would after a few hours be coming out of both taps. I know some of you may not believe this, but I have seen this happen more than once. A tap was left on over night and we have a 6 story office building with 14 restrooms. All the taps had hot water coming out of all the taps. Granted we have a hot water boiler with a circulating pump, but would this work in a home environment?... Plausable... You must connect the two taps together so the hot will run into the cold side, the explanation above does seam a bit odd though. All you would need to do is connect one set of taps together, hot and cold, then turn them on! __________________ Silver/RL 2007 - Black Top - Red/Black Leather 5th Break Light, DeJon CAI, IC Pipes Magnaflow, Opel Badges, tail lights. Hahn Intercooler, Westers Tune Last edited by ceeker : 01-24-2008 at 10:10 PM.