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Inspect and Attempt to Adjust the Existing Thermostatic Mixing Valve

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No Hot Water In Bathtub But Hot Water In Sinks???

What happens here

Locate the thermostatic mixing valve, typically found under the bathtub or sink. Examine its condition. Attempt to adjust the valve by turning its cap counter-clockwise to increase the hot water flow. After adjusting, recheck the water temperature at the tub to see if there's any improvement.

Goal: Attempt to fix the temperature issue by adjusting the existing valve.

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114, that's good. So I started looking around and I found that under the sink here is a thermostatic mixing valve. All right, well my first thing was to let's turn this counterclockwise and actually see if it'll go up more and there actually was a lot of movement on it. So I thought, well, that could be it. So with this, the hot side feeds in from the left, the cold side feeds in the right and the pipe that goes down feeds the hot side of the tub. And after several minutes, there really was not much change. So I said, hey, dude, you need to get one of these. I said

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