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You can fix these types of problems by adjusting the maximum temperature of the faucet. Doing so requires only basic tools, and in most cases only takes a few minutes of trial and error to get your shower faucet running the way you want it. A Quick Lesson on How the Levers Work Most single lever shower faucets are designed to have up to 270 degrees of rotation. At about 45 degrees from the "off" position, the cold water is fully on and the hot water is still off. As you continue rotating, the hot water starts to come on until, at about 135 degrees of rotation, both the hot and cold water is on full. Cushion Covers 24x24 OnlineFrom this point, the hot stays on and the cold is gradually turned off until, at 270 degrees, the hot water is fully on and the cold water is fully off. Second Hand Laptop For Sale In Ernakulam

The mechanism inside a single lever faucet is adjustable and can be moved so that it limits the amount of rotation. Remember, it's at the full 270 degrees of rotation that you only have hot water. At less than that, cold water is still mixing in. If you can't rotate the lever a full 270 degrees, cold water is always mixing with the hot. The shorter the maximum rotation is, the more cold water is being added and the cooler the faucet's maximum temperature. Look Under the Handle To adjust your shower faucet's temperature, take the lever or handle off. Bali Faux Wood Perfect ArchIn most cases, you can easily pry out a piece of metal or plastic on the front of the faucet handle to get at the screw that holds the handle on. Some handles have a hole hidden on the underside; you can use a small screwdriver or Allen wrench to remove the handle. Once the handle is off, you should see a collar with a little plastic nub that sticks up.

When the handle is in place, it's this nub that stops the rotation at the "maximum hot" position. Look inside the handle or slide it back into place and turn the faucet on and off to help visualize how this works. Some collars have two pieces. On the back piece, the nub is always at the 12 o'clock position and the other piece can be pulled out and rotated clockwise from the 12 o'clock position and reinserted. The farther clockwise from 12 o'clock, the more the lever's rotation is limited and the colder the maximum temperature. On other collars, there is an adjustment screw that can allow for some adjustment of the collar. Remember that pushing the nub clockwise means a cooler maximum temperature. Older single lever faucets may have hot and cold adjustment screws instead of a collar. To increase temperature, turn the hot water adjustment screw counterclockwise or the cold water screw clockwise. To decrease the temperature, do the opposite. The key to proper adjustment is to experiment and test--trial and error will get you there.

Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Whenever I go to take a shower, I have to turn the handle to the absolute hottest setting just to avoid freezing. I know the hot water works in my house, so that's not the issue. It just seems like I should be able to make the water hotter if I could just turn the handle more. Is there a way to accomplish this easily? Many faucets have an adjustable range. In the last one I installed there was plastic ring with v-grooves around the outside of it: to adjust the range you positioned two stops that hooked into the v-grooves. Recommend the TIA* approach to see what you can see - it may be very straightforward. Just don't drop the screws down the drain! In our new house, the shower controls in the kids bathrooms are adjustable so you can set the temperature to prevent scalding. Even if the kids push the control all the way to HOT, the water will only be comfortably warm.

I'm not sure about all controls, but on ours you pop the face off the control. Inside there are 2 (I think) geared rings that you can position to set the maximum temperature. Doityourself has a good article called "How to Repair a Shower Faucet: Water Doesn't Get Hot" that covers how to troubleshoot and repair a cartridge-type shower faucet, which I suspect is your problem. How old is your hot water heater? I ask because I ran into the same issue. I'd turn my shower on full hot, no cold water at all and I'd still only get warm - semi-hot water when realistically I should have been scalded. Turns out my hot water heater was set too low (was set on the "A" setting out of "A, B and C" with "C" being the hottest). I set it to "C" and that solved the issue for a while. It started doing it again, I called around and found out that as a hot water heater gets older it loses it's heating capability. My water heater was about 12 years old and wasn't heating efficiently. Got a new water heater and now I get steaming hot water again.