What cheeses me off

[Aeryn]

There is no tap or mixer you can adjust, its a sensor put hands under tap water flows.

Ive not been able to tolerate leaving hands in freezing cold stream of water longer than 30 secs. But as the ladies services both staff and clients on site for events there is pretty much a constant flow of women using the sinks so fact its always freezing even when you have to wait for a sink makes me think its cold only.

Maybe i will lodge a maintenance incident and see what they say.

On the plus side plenty of paper towels and not a hand air dryer in sight.

 

[equus]

I have seen a relatively recent refurb with that sort of setup - cold water only into the bathrooms, but there is a rather pathetic heating set up, I think possibly for each tap, that takes forever to deliver something moderately warm. If there is a constant stream of people who don't wait for it to kick in properly, it just stays cold.

Down side to that refurb - one handryer per washroom, with 3 sinks and no paper towels in sight. That works as well as you would expect.

 

[RooFlyer]

On the plus side plenty of paper towels and not a hand air dryer in sight.

The hand dryer would warm your hands up?

 

[Quickstatus]

One design flaw in my house and common to most houses is the latency between turning on the hot water tap and getting hot water.
When I reno-ed the kitchen, I should have put in a small 10L passive Hot water tank in the kitchen island fed with hot water from the main HWS. Possibly dont need to heat it as the turnover would ensure hot water from for main tank

 

[Seat0B]

One design flaw in my house and common to most houses is the latency between turning on the hot water tap and getting hot water.
When I reno-ed the kitchen, I should have put in a small 10L passive Hot water tank in the kitchen island fed with hot water from the main HWS. Possibly dont need to heat it as the turnover would ensure hot water from for main tank

This is something that really exercises Mr Seat 0A's design talents when we do renovations - we have done quite a bit of house flipping in our time. Our own house, built over 20 years ago, has a very quick heat up for the kitchen sink and our bathroom. Less so for guest (formerly Seat kids') bathroom downstairs, but we don't have people to stay that often any more.

 

[Aeryn]

The hand dryer would warm your hands up?

But generally useless at actually drying hands, i prefer the paper towels quick and effective.

At home have gas hot water and it comes through within a couple of secods at wosrt usually instantly no matter if kitchen, bathroom or laundry. So confounds me in a brand new building why there would be such a wait.