Weird.
I saw "melts tungsten" and my brain decided this was in German.
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Same lmfao
I think it's so late here that I assume Lemmy is sprechening Deutsch by default
Speaking as a Dane, I too had to recalibrate from "heavyrock" to "tungsten the element" 😁
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Set your water heater lower. Like: make sure it's above 120 at all times (130+ preferably) to prevent legionnaire's, but 140 is PLENTY for most home uses. And it means you get a bigger range to move your mixer taps to.
Came to say the same thing. Not sure why people want boiling water on tap. If I need to boil water I use my kettle, and save money by not heating a tank of water to near boil all day.
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So there are lots of good answers, but there's one I haven't seen: The type of shower control in the photo is probably low quality, cheap, meaning the internal parts do a poor job of mixing the hot/cold water.
Adjusting the water heater may help, but you might also consider upgrading the shower faucet.
Nah, Brougham.
All the way to the left, then back off 1/16".
Burn me, baby.
I know most chronic internet users don’t adjust their boiler temp settings. But there are easy ways to fix this.
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Lower flow temperature makes it easier to adjust.
Your water heater is set too hot or you don't have a mixing valve after your water heater
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Come to Japan (and, so I've heard, several European countries) where we have a temperature setting on the tap. Mine caps at 40 by default, but you can press a little button and make it hotter if desired (up to however hot your water heater puts out).
Most of these types of faucets have a regulator in them as well in the US, you have to take off the handle to set it and most people never bother to do so.
My kitchen faucet is like this. It's one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard