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    Dec 10, 2012, 05:25 PM
    Hot water in showers not working
    Hello I recently bought a house built in the 30s. The hot water in the upstairs bathroom was working great when we first moved in now it only gets hot when we turn on the shower down stairs. What would be causing this?

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    Dec 10, 2012, 06:44 PM
    Does the upstairs bath also have a tub or shower? If so how do they act, just like the sink? Is the sink faucet one handle or two?
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    Dec 10, 2012, 06:53 PM
    The down stairs has a tub and it is one handle the up stairs is just a shower also one handle.

    Also the sinks and every thing else in the house get very hot still its just the upstairs shower.
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    Dec 10, 2012, 06:55 PM
    Still not sure what you got, "up stairs is just a shower " but there is a sink too, right? Does it get hot?
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    Dec 10, 2012, 07:05 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by ballengerb1 View Post
    Still not sure what you got, "up stairs is just a shower " but there is a sink too, right? Does it get hot?
    Up stairs sink gets hotter than the shower but I believe it was hotter before.
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    Dec 10, 2012, 07:07 PM
    One handle shower vlaves are cartrdiges or ball valves, yours is clogged. Do you have the skills and desire to take the valve apart, any idea who made it?
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    Dec 10, 2012, 07:15 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by ballengerb1 View Post
    One handle shower vlaves are cartrdiges or ball valves, yours is clogged. Do you have the skills and desire to take the valve apart, any idea who made it??
    I believe they are delta and I know they are both balled. I have taken the top one apart hoping a flush of it would do any thing. It did not. I only recently figured out if I turn the shower on downstairs and then run the upstairs shower it will give me hot water upstairs like it use to.
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    Dec 10, 2012, 07:20 PM
    It's really late where I am but Tom starts very early in the morning. Maybe he will have more ideas, that downstairs shower making the upstairs hot has me plexed.

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