• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The cartridge is likely bad. They get clogged up with lime scale over time and start to perform worse and worse. Either replace the cartridge or the whole faucet itself.

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    You should just move to a more tropical area. Where I live, I only ever use the “Cold” tap and sometimes, even that is too warm.

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    2 months ago

    So there are lots of good answers, but there’s one I haven’t seen: The type of shower control in the photo is probably low quality, cheap, meaning the internal parts do a poor job of mixing the hot/cold water.

    Adjusting the water heater may help, but you might also consider upgrading the shower faucet.

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    Set your water heater lower. Like: make sure it’s above 120 at all times (130+ preferably) to prevent legionnaire’s, but 140 is PLENTY for most home uses. And it means you get a bigger range to move your mixer taps to.

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        2 months ago

        Last i checked, that would no longer make it hot water, but I use the dumb numbers where 212 is boiling

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          Actually at household water pressures, water’s boiling point is somewhere from 140-160°C, so it’s actually somewhat plausible. I’m sure some less heat tolerant stuff would have to be upgraded, but the system’s total pressure would be about the same (with the added danger that the consequence of a pressure failure would be a steam explosion instead of a leak).

          And of course turning your faucet on hot would now blast out a stream of boiling water propelled by superheated steam, which is probably less than ideal.

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        Your water heaters don’t have a “Steam Blast” setting? How do your bidets even work? Do they just dribble cool water on your anus? How weird.

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      2 months ago

      Came to say the same thing. Not sure why people want boiling water on tap. If I need to boil water I use my kettle, and save money by not heating a tank of water to near boil all day.

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    Come to Japan (and, so I’ve heard, several European countries) where we have a temperature setting on the tap. Mine caps at 40 by default, but you can press a little button and make it hotter if desired (up to however hot your water heater puts out).

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      2 months ago

      Most of these types of faucets have a regulator in them as well in the US, you have to take off the handle to set it and most people never bother to do so.

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        2 months ago

        These things existe for at least 30 years, I don’t understand why anyone would want to use anything else for a shower or bathtub.

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            2 months ago

            Definitely not :) I had to get it replaced at my flat this year. There is a filter inside that can get block if you have hard water or debris.

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                Don’t let that stop you getting the ultimate shower experience! My parents also have water with very high calcium at their house and I don’t think they had any problems with the faucet in the past 15 years.

                I live in a rented place, they were doing repairs to the heating systems, several times we had brown water coming out the tap. I bet they installed the cheapest option, plus the debris in the water, this fucked it.

                Just invest in a good thermostatic faucet and never look back !

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      When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.

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        Growing up in rural France, we had these at home for as far as I can remember. They may not have been the norm 30 years ago, but at least common.

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        Interesting, so it adjusts the flow of hot/cold in the fly to keep a consistent temp? That’s amazing, thought I imagine it would have the same issue I have at the end of the shower where it’s on 100% hot just to eke out a bit more time

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        2 months ago

        This technology is only possible with degree Celsius. It is impossible to adapt to degree Fahrenheit.

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        2 months ago

        Except British homes which have two separate showerheads, one scalding hot and the other freezing cold.

        The trick is to spin really fast.

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          British when straight into inventing the radar and completely skipped over the invention of warm water.

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    2 months ago

    Your water heater is set too hot or you don’t have a mixing valve after your water heater