We live in a rented house where we cover expenses <$500, but we have the freedom to do pretty much any improvements to the house we want.
The bath/shower has a single handle that rotates counter-clockwise to both increase pressure and make the water hotter and a common diverter on the faucet.
I like to take cold showers (logic of that is not up for debate, I started in 1977), so naturally with this shower, by the time I get any pressure at all, the temperature is warm. I thought I'd solve the problem by putting a ball valve at the hot water heater and simply close that when I wanted a cold shower.
Surprisingly, when the valve is closed at the hot water heater, we get NO water through the shower faucet, even if turned all the way up. Everywhere else, the hot water is cut and cold water is flowing as expected. I would have expected to just have cold water when I turned the shower up.
Is our only option changing the shower to 2-handle, if that would be feasible? I guess to do that we would remove the big round chrome faceplate that the handle comes through to hopefully reveal hot and cold water outlets?
Thanks for any ideas.
The bath/shower has a single handle that rotates counter-clockwise to both increase pressure and make the water hotter and a common diverter on the faucet.
I like to take cold showers (logic of that is not up for debate, I started in 1977), so naturally with this shower, by the time I get any pressure at all, the temperature is warm. I thought I'd solve the problem by putting a ball valve at the hot water heater and simply close that when I wanted a cold shower.
Surprisingly, when the valve is closed at the hot water heater, we get NO water through the shower faucet, even if turned all the way up. Everywhere else, the hot water is cut and cold water is flowing as expected. I would have expected to just have cold water when I turned the shower up.
Is our only option changing the shower to 2-handle, if that would be feasible? I guess to do that we would remove the big round chrome faceplate that the handle comes through to hopefully reveal hot and cold water outlets?
Thanks for any ideas.