Had this problem 4 years ago and I put in a new shower head and it worked. The hot/warm shower becomes cold when someone is using the kitchen faucet or when someone is using another shower.
Check the other faucets, tubs, and showers in your house. The feed pipe to my shower is loose and also pouring ou
Shower suddenly goes cold.
Check the other faucets, tubs, and showers in your house. Then, turn it slightly to the right and push it back in place. If your shower is the only one that doesn’t spew hot water, congratulations! Now it is back. Why? I suspect if you had the shower set to totally hot, you'd just notice reduced flow. Same thing with turning on another hot outlet and your water get's cold. This can often cause a shower to become suddenly hot.
Continue making small right turns to the anti-scald device and testing the water after each adjustment.
For example, when a toilet flushes, it will pull cold water to fill up the tank.
How is cold water being introduced to the hot side of the sink. It was installed 12 years ago, was fine for many years, and since about 6 months ago has gradually got worse, now happening every single time. Master shower gets cold when water runs in other shower; Author: jlam2912 (CA) I have two showers at home and both work great.
The showerhead mixing valve, which regulates the proper mix of hot and cold water, is probably broken. However the hot water in the master shower turns cold when we run the water in the second shower. Hi, you have the old style shower valve that is non pressure balanced. I can smell burning from my shower, is this safe?
Repeat until the water temperature matches your needs.
The shower would get cold if somebody used hot water for something (almost certainly not a toilet flush), instead of cold.
You need a pressure balanced valve. As I understand it, this would occur when I turn the sink hot tap off, followed by turning the shower hot tap on, causing a re-ignition of the burner that takes 10 seconds to complete, during which time cold water is flowing through the hot pipe since the flow-sensor has been activated.
I'm taking a hot shower, someone turn on faucet in kitchen, suddenly my shower turns cold. And we have somewhat of a pressure problem. Do Tankless Water Heaters Work? I have power to my shower, why will it not come on? With a few inexpensive parts from a plumbing supply store, any DIYer can get the job done fast.
The showerhead mixing valve, which regulates the proper mix of hot and cold water, is probably broken. When someone turns on another faucet it reduces the flow of water go to the hot water tank so less hot water is available for your shower and then you just get the cold. Once the water temperature is
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Both faucets (sink and shower) are fed from the same hot water line.