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To: Paul R.

My issue with water was, in my state, not the pressure, but the temperature.

At some point we had our bathroom upgraded, and when I began using it, I couldn’t get the water hot enough. I am one of those people who, if my skin doesn’t approach the color of a cooked lobster, the water isn’t hot enough.

Apparently to be up to code in my nanny-state, there has to be a mixing valve that automatically mixes cold water in to reduce the temperature. I didn’t know this, and even tried turning up the temperature of our hot water tank to compensate...it didn’t help because the mixing valve would negate it.

The only result was that the hot water at the kitchen sink would nearly scald you.

In the shower, temperature-wise, it was a little warmer than simply being spat upon.

I suffered for a couple of years, then found out that I could subvert the mixing valve by disassembling the controller and repositioning some simple plastic part and...voila! Steaming hot water.

When my wife and I go anywhere to stay, the first question the morning after we arrive is: “What is your shower assessment?”

I judge on three things: Temperature, Pressure, and Volume.

Is it hot enough, is it powerful enough, and does it last long enough. If any one of them is wanting, the grade goes down.

This is a holdover from my old Navy days, where I vowed, when I get out of the Navy, I am never, ever taking a Navy Shower again. (They had people who, if you stayed in the shower more than a minute, would pound on the side of the shower stall.

Now, I can take a twenty minute shower, and am happy to pay the money to do it.


12 posted on 02/02/2024 6:16:27 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: rlmorel

That adjustment you made is the normal adjustment setting that anyone is supposed to be able to change.


14 posted on 02/02/2024 6:21:09 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: rlmorel

Well, no problem with our shower (which has a shower head about 18 years old).


63 posted on 02/02/2024 4:14:40 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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