hot water

I am rebuilding my home and am adding an additional floor to the house (approx 1200 sqft) to house a new master-bath (tub + italian shower) and a an additional bathroom with an italian shower. This will bring the house to a total of 6 bathrooms (4bath, 1 powder and 1 laundry+bath). 15years...

Hi, My wife and I are working with an local architect group here in South Florida on a new home for our family. The home is approximately 5500 sq ft under air and will be on well water and a septic system. One ask I had of the engineers/architects was to try to a utilize heat pump water heater...

I have a Adler Moen shower faucet. I just replaced the cartridge and set the scald guard to 12 o'clock (hopefully off). We have not been getting super hot water even though the DHW is set to 140. Thinking to test my scald settings, I left the cold water intake valve turned off and just turned...

I recently converted my regular tub shower combo to a dual head standing shower. Each shower head has its own control via pressure balancing valve, and I plumbed it (basically) as shown in my attached crude drawing. I’m a novice when it comes to plumbing, but based on some research, I built the...

I'm really impressed with the on the ground knowledge in these forums. We have kind of an urgent situation and if any of you offer consulting, we would greatly appreciate some closer support than these forums also to help us to get our filters working this week as our family business is hanging...

Hi, I have gas baseboard hot water heat with two taco zone valves. One zone in particular makes a loud knocking noise whenever the thermostat calls for heat. The noise is coming from the first part of the zone right where the zone valve is. I've been in the house for one full winter and I've...

Hey all! I've read through the other posts on this forum on black specks in water but am running into a bit of a cluster with my issue. I had some really bad corrosion on my hot water tank nipples and had the whole tank replaced in October. Catch is the plumber tried pulling the nipples after...

We've got a 100+ year old house in Portland Oregon, it has a 50G hybrid heat pump water heater in the unfinished but warm basement. We have 2-4 people living here. During winter months we've found it often doesn't get warm enough water to the 2nd floor shower. In the summer, there are times...

I live in California (local temp ranges 40s in winter, to 80s in summer). I want to run a hot water line to an outdoor fixture, which will require about a 20ft outdoor run. There is no concern of freezing, nor waiting a little for the hot water, but I do care about energy efficiency. I wonder...

My bathroom faucet water was smelling like sulfur, but not the rest of the water faucets, so I took out the aerator to clean it and found a bunch of little rocks that look like solder. Flush the hot and the cold got a bunch of solder rocks from the cold side especially if I tapped or shook the...

Hello, I have a Kohler single-handle universal valve (K8304-K-NA) installed on a recent renovation. It was working properly when installed, but after several months no hot water flows when turned on (gradually got worse). I am trying to troubleshoot what the source of the problem is and what...

We have a big (5,000+ squ ft), 12 year old house with a brand new 50gal water heater (the largest one allowed). We ONLY have electricity, no gas on our property. The hot water capacity is generally fine for everything EXCEPT the large spa tub in our master bathroom. When I turn the hot water...

I'm hoping this helps others determine whether this is their issue (and figuring out this mystery). Key points in the issue: Only appears in hot water Black particles will smudge, but if you let it dry, you can "roll it up" between your fingers (rubbery?) Seems to appear mainly in bath tub...

I have a Rheem 40 gallon water heater it's got power from the breaker box all the way through the top thermostat the elements and the bottom thermostat I just replaced both elements but for some reason the water is not getting hot both top and bottom elements are 4500w/240v I also replaced the...

I have a three story home in the nyc area (basement, 1st, 2nd). The basement has baseboard heating, the 1st and second floors have steam. A bathroom on the first floor, which was part of an extension done by the previous owner, has an electric heater (no clue why) and it sits on the opposite end...

My Gledhill boilermate OV stopped heating the water, blew the on board fuse and tripped one of the three breaker switches inside the boiler. The gas boiler was showing a low temperature but was ok. To fault find turned Gas boiler off and on to electric only. (Switch setting) replaced fuse...

Hey guys! I've been working on my hot water on my own for a bit now and could really use some opinions moving forward. I had my hot water line bust not too far from the hot water tank and I discovered the old galvanized pipes to be VERY corroded and obstructing flow likely causing pressure...

Settle back, this is a long one. A few times a year we have a problem with hot water. The faucets and shower throughout the house have different hot water temps. The kitchen sink is red hot, the powder room and shower is lukewarm. Here's some background. At this point, any of these things...

We've been having our hot water intermittently get cool when taking showers. It can last anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. It may have started around the time our geothermal heating/cooling was installed in 2017. Maybe. In addition to the heating/cooling, I have desuperheaters coming...

hello everyone. I’m a plumber for many years but mostly work in new construction projects. My hot water boiler safety relief valve was leaking. I noticed it stopped leaking and the pressure dropped to 5 PSI. I opened the pressure reducing valve and it brought the pressure way past 30 and was...