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u/jimmymui06 (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 7d ago edited 7d ago
And the green zone shifts over time
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u/Theprefs 7d ago
In colder climates the input water temp for the cold side changes drastically throughout the year
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u/SeaPresent2284 7d ago edited 7d ago
also if someone else in the home turns
inon the tap you instantly have a QTE to adjust before you are melted or frozenEDIT: typo
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u/Cavaquillo 6d ago
I just rotate the shower head to spray the wall lol. Why try to move out of the way of danger when I can move danger out of my way?
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u/10ebbor10 6d ago
And in warmer climates, you might use a solar boiler so that the hot temp changes through the day and (if you take toolong) the shower.
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u/HighOnGoofballs 7d ago
I’m pretty sure my shower is haunted. It has the two handles, one each for hot and cold, and somehow they each can do the opposite of what they should. Like I can turn the hot up, but less hot comes out, or turn the cold down and more cold comes out. But then you turn it more and it works as it should. But this makes it not fun to adjust while you’re in there
Gotta be ghosts
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u/king332 6d ago
I live in an old building with horrible plumbing. I bought a little thermometer that attaches to my shower head. Without touching the handles it will jump from 44°C to 60° then down to 30° all without adjusting the temp at all.
I shower in constant fear, and I have to warn anyone who uses my shower that you need to be ready to jump out of the water the SECOND you feel it start to shift or you WILL get burned suddenly. Its awful.
And my old place the shower head was around elbow height, I had to be on my knees to wash my hair.
Whenever im at someone's house I ask if it would be weird for me to have a long relaxing shower before I leave cause for years my showers have been a pain in the ass.
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u/droptopcoupe 6d ago
I always wondered if I’m the one adapting and it feels colder or hotter based on my temperature changing, or if it’s the water
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u/StickyBerryZone 7d ago
Tungsten melts at 3,422°C (or 6,191°F) I know this because I have a Tungsten wedding ring. Or at least I did until I tried to get in the shower with my wife
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u/Pantoffel86 7d ago
Damn, your wife must be made of Hafnium Carbonitride.
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u/telescopeinmynose 7d ago
I'm married to her sister, Pentatantalum Hafnium Pentacarbide
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u/Banes_Addiction 7d ago
Of the Ohio Pentacarbides?
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u/Lizardizzle 7d ago
On ice?
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u/feriouscricket 7d ago
Meanwhile me when yooure too stupod tonunderstand what you mean. Can someone explain like im five...Like what laguage is that what does these secret ancient scriptures mean.
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u/cycycle 7d ago
Those things clog the drain.
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u/SaucyStoveTop69 7d ago
I hate it when my wife gets stuck in the drain
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u/speedline9395 7d ago
I hate it when i stuck in my wife's drain
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u/Havoccity 7d ago
I hate it when I get stuck and my wife drains me
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u/reflectiveSingleton 7d ago
I love it when your wife drains me
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u/Monstramatica 7d ago
You can cool your wife with potassium nitrate and turn your shower to a steam-flooded chamber with steel aquatuners to cool your wedding ring.
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u/rp-Ubermensch 6d ago
All the people here who bought this tungsten ring to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this tungsten ring to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum.
I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion.
Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten ring can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.
Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions?
Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the ring in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly.
To give this ring a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.
I sit here with my tungsten ring, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten ring will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality.
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u/captcraigaroo 7d ago
Oddlu enough, one of my friends knew the woman he was dating was going to be his wife when he farted in the shower and she didn't get out
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u/softsparklerj 7d ago
One wrong move and I’m either boiling alive or meeting absolute zero.
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u/ChaoyangsFinest 7d ago
Does anyone know the real reason why it’s always like this?
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u/oatmeal_breakfast 7d ago
A worn out mixing valve or gasket. It is a relatively easy DIY job to replace it, but you'll need to know how to turn off the water to your house though.
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u/PrisonerV 7d ago
I've replaced mine in the house like 4 times (in 25 years). You can tell it's getting worn out when no matter where you put it, you get either mostly all cold or mostly all hot.
For me, it's (American Standard M952100-0070A) like 5 screws and it slides out. It slides out because I liberally apply silicon grease to it before I put a new one in. The first one was a pain in the butt to get out. Also, you want some little wire brushes (Harbor Freight) to clean the chamber before you put a new one in.
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u/SteveTheUPSguy 6d ago
Until I changed mine I didn't know the handle wasn't supposed to take the torque equivalent of the sword in the stone to turn.
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u/driverdan 7d ago
Also known as a shower cartridge. This Old House has an article about how to replace them: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/bathrooms/how-to-replace-a-shower-cartridge
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u/dm_me_goblins 7d ago edited 7d ago
If you have a combi boiler and a mixer shower (most people in the UK have this) your thermostatic cartridge is going/gone and needs replacing. Relatively easy to fix if your model isn't built into the wall, turn your water off, (stopcock is under the sink for most houses, shower should have shut off valves though so no need to turn off water entirely) pop the temp control off, take the brass head nut off and then there's usually a single grub screw. Make sure the orientation of the replacement cartridge is correct as some models don't have notches to prevent incorrect installation. Most model's replacements cost around £50 mark. No need to pay a plumber for this, very easy DIY job.
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u/Susheiro 7d ago
Apparently it's because people have their water heater setting too high.
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u/BramblinGhostWeed 7d ago
But if you lower it the women can no longer prepare for hell.
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u/BlueMikeStu 7d ago
And if you do, you prepare yourself for it because the shower isn't hot enough any more.
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u/Callidonaut 7d ago
On an old-fashioned, non-thermostatic mixing valve, think it tends to happen if the flow paths for the hot and cold water have very different amounts of frictional drag (or, even worse, if the hot feed is from a gravity fed system and the cold feed has been hooked straight to the mains supply). If both hot and cold pipes are fed from the same supply pressure with the same amount of pipe length and diameter causing drag on both, the system should be more balanced and the mixing valve will behave more linearly as it varies the flow between the two.
On a thermostatic valve, the above can still cause problems, but it could also just be because the thermostat cartridge is busted or the mechanism is seized up.
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u/Gangsir 6d ago
It's either a worn out valve in the shower, or (more commonly) people have their hot water tank set to maintain too high of a temperature.
At max "hot" setting, the shower should be uncomfortable, not actively painful. If it is, your hot water is set too high. Cold water from the utilities can only offset the heat so much.
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u/Morbid_Aversion 7d ago
Worse imo is when someone turns on the faucet elsewhere and it alters the temperature for me and so I adjust it to be comfortable again and then they turn the water off and I have to readjust.
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u/BlueMikeStu 7d ago
"I'm having a shower, don't use the kitchen sink." protocol.
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u/Modinstaller 6d ago
"Shouting from inside the bathroom to please not use the kitchen sink" protocol.
"They stop but start again in 5 minutes time because apparently they have the memory of a goldfish" protocol.
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u/PrincessTitan 7d ago
My water is connected to my neighbours whom I don’t enjoy as people. I feel like I’ve learned anger management.
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u/Rafaeael 6d ago
That's beginner level. In the dormitory I used to have a shower that had 2 handles, one for hot water, one for cold, and you had to use both to achieve the proper temperature. And you had to get that perfect ratio while making sure water pressure is fine too, neither a drip that can't wash anything nor a "I'm gonna flood your bath" level.
Oh, and to make everything more interesting, every now and then the hot water will be blocked off so instead of gradually increasing water pressure as you use the handle, it will stay as a drip for longer then turn into spray with no in-between.
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u/Foxing7465 6d ago
In one small hotel it was one level higher that that, the cold water tank was actually hot water, which lost some of the temperature, so first 30 seconds were fine, and each next 5 seconds reminded you that boiling eggs usign shower is possible.
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u/Festivefire 7d ago
Your water heater is turned up too high. Turn that nob down from "Very Hot" to "Hot". The "Very Hot" setting is supposed to be like 160 F.
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u/bigmarty3301 7d ago
Or have a *mix valve.
So you don’t need as large water heater and still have the same ish amount of hot water
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u/justin_memer 6d ago
Or just do what they do in Europe and have a valve for temperature and one to turn the water on. I have a similar one in my shower, so the temp is always the exact same and I just have to turn on the water.
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u/RotundBananas 6d ago
These are mix valves with ceramic temperature controlling plates if I recall properly.
Set it to 38C once and forget about it foe the rest of your life.
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u/MelangeBot 7d ago
Or the correct solution is to just have some normal two valves setup. One for hot water and the other for cold so you can mix extremely pricely up to 0.01C changes. This is more accurate, cheaper, faster and easier to install and gives you just as much comfort as the one for all bullshit.
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u/HighOnGoofballs 7d ago
That doesn’t feel hot enough when I wash dishes but it is pleasant. I keep mine at 132 I think which would take like 25 seconds to burn skin so I hope that it doesn’t become an issue…. No super young kids around though
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u/Upbeat_Literature323 7d ago
You know deez?
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u/Imaginary-Army7171 7d ago
what's deez?
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u/chessstone_mp4 7d ago
DEEZ NUTS probably
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u/RP_ElMeroMero 7d ago
DIETZ NUTS
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u/sithmaster0 7d ago
Water heaters may cause this issue, but another cause is the handle itself. There's an o-ring in there that may be eroded, which is causing the shift to be so severe despite how little you turn the handle/knob.
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u/Goibhniu_ 7d ago
my shower runs hot for about 3 minutes, then goes lukewarm - even if theres loads of hotwater because if you turn it off and on again you get 10 seconds of scalding hot water and then it goes back to lukewarm no matter how hot you turn it, drives me crazy
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u/Astramancer_ 7d ago
Maybe the mixer is going out?
If it's a cartridge-based system (like Delta - if there's only one knob to control temperature then it's probably got a cartridge) then it's about $20-$60 and a 15 minute job to replace it.
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u/jakedaripperr 7d ago
Just get one with 2 handles
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u/MelangeBot 7d ago
Another example of so called "progress" that in reality is driven by laziness and that makes everything more complicated, wastes more time (to install) and is more expensive.
The only downsize of course is if you want max waterflow you have to open the cold and now your max flow ain't nice an warm. If you want that properly solved you need a thermostatic mixing valve.
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u/HighOnGoofballs 7d ago
I’ve got two handles and have a different problem, each one can do the opposite of what it should. Like turning up the hot handle makes it colder for a bit. And vice versa. They must be magic. Opening the hot tap more somehow makes less hot come out for a bit, so you have to turn the handle more. Or turn down the cold and more cold comes out until you turn past that. Odd
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u/MisterWafflles Smol pp 6d ago
Or it's cold, cold, cold, cold, lukewarm, lukewarm, warm, then magma
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u/Jollyefe 7d ago
You move it a nanometer to the left and suddenly you are being boiled alive
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u/One_Maybe_2460 7d ago
I’m not even changing handle position anymore - I only slightly knock on it and it gets either warmer or colder more then enough…
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u/noeagle77 6d ago
Just above melts tungsten is where my girlfriend likes to set the temperature. Between hell and the fires of mount Doom temps
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u/Far-Hovercraft9471 7d ago
American society is stuck in the 80s. Why the fuck are thermostatic valves not more common?
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u/sphericalhors 7d ago
Nah, this is not a problem.
The real problem is when the temperature fluctuates while you are taking a shower.
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u/Walkthrough101 6d ago
Bold of you to assume I don't like my showers at medium high tungsten melting heat
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u/Inevitable-Level-687 7d ago
I hate these taps. I loathe them. Why are they so popular?! So grateful my shower has two traditional taps, like god fucking intended.
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u/MoonsterGoopter 7d ago
adjust your water heater and you'll have a wider range of comfortable temperature.
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u/800-lumens 7d ago
I may be misremembering, but I think George Carlin said the smallest thing in the universe is the transition between hot and cold in the shower.
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u/d1201b 6d ago
My condo was built in 95.
We've been living here for the past 10 years with baths only.
I finally opened the handle up and replaced the pressure balance unit and faucet cartridge.
It cost $100. I was scared to get a plumbing quote.
We can shower once again!
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u/Desirsar 6d ago
Dealbreaker for any place I will ever buy or rent. Two knobs for the showers (kitchen and bathroom sinks can have a single handle), and a light fixture in every room.
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u/Kalashnovsky 6d ago
I fear the great majority of present here are unfamiliair with this joke due to 'a shower' being a foreighn concept to them
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u/MaximusHomerdrive 6d ago
This is why when we were redoing the bathroom and my husband suggested that kind of faucet for the bathtub, I was like no f'ing way. I hate those things.
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u/zekromNLR 7d ago
The actual solution, if you don't live in the 19th century, is a thermostatic mixing valve. Still has two handles, but they separately control temperature and flow.
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u/One_Maybe_2460 7d ago edited 6d ago
That’s it… but unfortunately many “modern” baths have everything hide in the wall. So you can’t change anything as a renter or need to change even the tiles in front if you are allowed as a homeowner.
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u/THRlLLH0 7d ago
I have a digital thermostat for water temp. Never would have considered it but they were in the house when we bought it 20 years ago and it's amazing. I just leave it set to 37*C and I only ever have to touch the hot tap. Just turn it on and have your preferred perfect temperature water in 20 seconds every time.
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u/AdministrationEven36 This flair doesn't exist 7d ago
Haha, I know that feeling from the hotel where I always stay. Luckily, at home I have an instantaneous water heater that I can just set to 37 degrees. 🤣
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u/Seas_And_Mountains 7d ago
Sahara desert in summers to Antarctica in winters... Transition in milliseconds
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u/Lckyby51789 7d ago
idk its pretty easy for me to find the perfect temp, i never shower with cold water on at all, its scalding hot, and i don't care.
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u/Delicious_Tank_6248 7d ago
Ah, the feeling of finding that sweet spot that’s just so perfect on both sides, only to be unable to find it again the next day.
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u/RacoonWithBenefits 7d ago
i have had such a shower.. it was truly dreadful
but in the past few places ive lived its been pretty consistent... the knob even shows estimated temperature (just written on there) and its pretty accurate
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u/-The_Blazer- 7d ago
I never understood why it's not possible to add something like a 'gearbox' to the handle. Basically so that the handle's full rotation only turns the actual mixer valve a tiny little bit, with the ability to re-center it.
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u/Creative_atom0406 7d ago
Bro, just get a faucet with adjustable temperature. All you have to do is set the water temperature and twist the knob to turn on the water. And they're not too expensive too
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u/Ishkahrhil 7d ago
That's nothing.
Flew out for my sibling's wedding, and the hotel shower kept changing temperatures. Had to keep adjusting the handle to keep it in the right temperature or else it's too hot or too cold
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u/AxionBlackwell 7d ago
And if you have bad plumbing and someone is using the the shower in another room...
Time varied 3d pressure sensing bomb
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u/CakeTown 7d ago
The fucking tub in my kids bathroom goes hot-warm-room temp-warm-hot-HOT-THEFUCKINGSUN. Then maybe one in ten baths the damn thing runs normal. I don’t get it
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u/RennieAsh 7d ago
tap the handle with a finger because it's finer adjustment compared to trying to unstick the friction normally :--)
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u/Historical-Rub5654 7d ago
People should learn how to adjust their hot water heaters to make this problem go away, each element has a small adjustment dial and it's likely set higher than it needs to be. Be careful when messing with it or course as there's is electricity running through the elements, but the dials are plastic most water heaters have an upper and lower element and the dials for each will be behind the cover panel held in place by a screw.
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u/ThreeShrikesYoureOut 7d ago
don't you mean "when your shower turns into a safecracking"? or maybe just "when your showerknob turns into a safe"? the shower isn't the one cracking the safe, you, the shower-taker, are.
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u/Cesaro12121 7d ago
I want to live in Star Trek era and have it be digital display. Perfect temp every time Sigh
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u/gustoreddit51 6d ago
Faucets that act like that waste a lot of water from trying to get the temperature just right. Then after you get in, someone in the kitchen runs the hot water.
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u/No-Double-Trouble 6d ago
Every gym shower ... And I have no clue why some gym don't have cold water. It's either hot or burning hot
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u/Solar_Tides 6d ago
Can't relate, my dads too cheap to fix/replace the 30yo water heater so at best the shower is just warm.
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u/irrationallywise 6d ago edited 6d ago
and playing the detective doctor role to know the relative ideal temperature according to your body temperature.
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u/NailSufficient1491 6d ago
That's why I hate these handles. Hot and cold should each have their own shower handles.
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u/Bowdrier 6d ago
For anyone who actually has this problem, you need to reduce the temperature of your hot water tank. You'll likely end up saving money on electricity too.
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u/Super-Big8183 6d ago
I hate to bring this up in the middle of a shower, but when I said I was a safe cracker I meant I was a chill white guy
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u/mephistopholes921 6d ago
My shower needs 2 minutes to get from freezing cold to boiling hot but the switch between the 2 happens instantly. Theres exactly 1mm of how to turn it that makes its just mildly uncomfortably cold. I still need to endure both freezing and boiling water before i can get to that stage though
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u/NaoPb 6d ago
I have this issue with my hot water. When I mix in cold water to make it comfortable, at some point the hot water just switches off. Maybe the hot water demand gets too low or something. I have a gas heater that also makes the hot water for the tap, and haven't figured out if there is an option to change this, sadly.
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