Shower Only Has Hot Water

What would cause a bathroom to not get hot water in the tub only.

Shower only has hot water. If all the other faucets in the home are receiving sufficient hot water the problem is more likely caused by a shower. Your shower mixing valve might have gone bad. This often happens with showers that are not used very often or where the water supply is particularly hard or has high levels of contaminants.

In many cases the o rings or washers have worn out and the valve no longer properly mixes. Lack of cold water is usually caused by a defective pressure balancing valve in a cartridge. When you aren t getting hot water in the bathtub and the other faucets are operating normally you don t have to look far for the.

The shower valve mixes hot and cold water to give you the perfect temperature shower water. The only thing worse than a cold shower is a scorching hot one. If your problem wasn t the anti scalding device your shower mixing valve has most likely gone bad and is preventing hot water from mixing properly into your shower water.

If there s no cold water in your shower you ve come to the right place. As a result cold water is probably being siphoned directly into the hot water pipe before it is heated by the unit. If all of your faucets are dispensing cold water the dip tube in the water heater tank may have deteriorated.