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Jabicca (NY)
I've lived in my apartment 7 years and still cannot control the water temperature in my hall shower. My bathroom shower is fine as are the faucets in both bathrooms and the kitchen.
It's a daily routine: I'll set my shower to the desired temperature before stepping into it. Sometimes it's a lot quicker than others but the water temperature never fails to turn suddenly ice cold or scalding hot and I'm left fully lathered to try to then get the water back to a tolerable temperature so I can finish my shower. And again, sometimes it's quick but sometimes I have to deal with the cold or hot water to wash the soap off and get to work.
Sometimes I'll turn the cold water completely off and the water temperature will remain ice cold! Other times I'll turn the hot water completely off and it will remain dangerously hot!
Then suddenly it will go to the opposite extreme and go from ice to fire or vise versa, before I can finish rinsing off.
Will replacing the stem fix that?
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Wheelchair (IL)
No. The issue is with the building's domestic hot water heating system. Do others in your building have the same issues? Is your shower valve single handle with mixing cartridge or a separate Hot and Cold valve?
Best Wishes
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Jabicca (NY)
I have separate cold and hot valves in both showers. I live on the 3rd floor and a friend who lives on the second floor and says she does not have that problem in her shower which also has separate cold and hot valves. I'm also wondering how my sink faucets are not affected.
I have separate cold and hot valves on one bathroom sink and a single valve on the other bathroom sink and on my kitchen sink and the water temperature works perfectly fine on all of them.
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