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Not always, but they should be. The convention in Plumbing was to have cold on the right and hot on the left. This was only written into some US building codes (Southern Building Code) in the past 10 years.

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Q: Are cold water faucets always on the right?
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Why is hot water coming out of cold faucet?

Obviously hooked up wrong, or the faucets are mismarked . Usually cold on the right, hot on the left.


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