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Hot Shower Pressure Valve
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| Andy writes:
We just moved into a new house and the shower does not
get very hot. We have turned the hot water heater up to
150 and we have a booster hot water heater near the shower
which is also turned up to 150. However, I still can't
get the shower hot enough for me.
The builder says that the building codes required him to
put in a "pressure balancing valve" , instead of two handles
like I am used to, in order to prevent the victim from getting
burned when someone flushes the toilet. The valve is set
on the hottest setting, and we have tried three different
valve inserts, and they all work the same.
Has anyone else had this same complaint ?
I like to have the shower really hot and then I balance
the temperature myself with adjustment of the cold water
valve. I can't do it anymore. Bummer.
Has the government started inserting themselves into our
showers ??
Andy
PS If anyone has suggestions, I would be most interested in
reading them.
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| Rick R 2005-06-29, 11:25 pm |
| The valve is either corroded or otherwise stuck. Not allowing enough hot
while proportionately allowing too much cold into the mix.
Another possibility is the hot feed line has an obstruction.
"Andy" <andysharpe@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1120078140.821601.177850@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
quote:
> Andy writes:
>
> We just moved into a new house and the shower does not
> get very hot. We have turned the hot water heater up to
> 150 and we have a booster hot water heater near the shower
> which is also turned up to 150. However, I still can't
> get the shower hot enough for me.
> The builder says that the building codes required him to
> put in a "pressure balancing valve" , instead of two handles
> like I am used to, in order to prevent the victim from getting
> burned when someone flushes the toilet. The valve is set
> on the hottest setting, and we have tried three different
> valve inserts, and they all work the same.
>
> Has anyone else had this same complaint ?
>
> I like to have the shower really hot and then I balance
> the temperature myself with adjustment of the cold water
> valve. I can't do it anymore. Bummer.
>
> Has the government started inserting themselves into our
> showers ??
>
> Andy
>
> PS If anyone has suggestions, I would be most interested in
> reading them.
>
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| m Ransley 2005-06-30, 12:25 pm |
| New house as in a builder built it for you, it could even be a bad
plumbing job, somewhere hot is feeding cold
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| Thus spake Andy:
quote:
> I like to have the shower really hot and then I balance
> the temperature myself with adjustment of the cold water
> valve. I can't do it anymore. Bummer.
Confirm that you're actually getting *hot* (not warm) from the hot supply.
Pull the mixing cartridge out of the assembly (with supply turned off) and
then have someone turn on the hot supply. See if the hot is really hot.
This requires that you have some kind of cold water shut-off somewhere before
the mixer valve...
Good luck,
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ask a question here if I hadn't done that already.
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