I bought a new home, did the final walk through and found that my down stairs bathroom had hot water going into the toilet. They sent someone out to repair, and that was that. We never checked the shower for hot water, only that it had water through both hot and cold sides of the faucet. Long story short, there's no hot water in the shower, not sure there ever was. This shower never got used till 4 years later (there's 2 other one's in the house). Any suggestions on where I should start? I plan on installing a utility sink on the same wall directly behind this bathroom into the laundry room so going into the wall won't be a problem if that's what I need to do. Could use some help woth that also. Like. Can I just tap into the existing lines already there?

If hot water was piped to toilet, there is a good chance that two colds were piped to shower. Sounds like a novice plumber did the job without it ever being inspected. Anyhow, you will need to somehow trace the lines from shower to see if it is piped correctly. As far as the utillitly sink goes, yes, you could tie into exisisting water lines, just make sure one is hot and one is cold. Will need more info so we can help you with the drain of utillity sink.

Thank you. I will be back in touch when I open up the wall to see the pipe configuration. Can the drain to the utility sink not be tapped into the sink behind it?

Dad nailed it! When you place was water piped some novice connected two coldlines to you shower and the hot line that should have gone to the shower he tied to t6he toilet. Do you have a basement? Please don't tell me you're on a slab. If your pipes are in the basement perhaps you woun't have to tear up any walls. You could simply cut in a hot water line to the shower and cap off the cold one. Let us knowmore aboutwhat you have. Good luck, Tom

I live in las vegas, not many basements to be found out here, so sadly, I am on a slab. It will be a little while before I can get to those walls. Thank you all so much for your help on this.

I live in las vegas, not many basements to be found out here, so sadly, I am on a slab. It will be a little while before I can get to those walls. thank you all so much for your help on this.

An d I live on the Gulf Coast where all our buildings are built on slabs. We pipe our houses in two ways.
1) We pipe under the slab and jump up into walls to make a manifold and then jump right back into the slab to branch out. **or**
2) We pipeovenhe4ah in the attic and drop down in the wall to pick up the fixtures.
Unless the contract calls for overhead piping we usually pipe under the slab.
Good luck, tom

Thank you. I will be back in touch when I open up the wall to see the pipe configuration. Can the drain to the utility sink not be tapped into the sink behind it?

Yes you should be OK draining this way, I would suggest using a double sanitary wye.