I've never heard of a humidifier having hot water sent to it. Unfortunately most people remember the last repair made and equate every problem to that repair. Kind of like when I built transmissions and they would bring the car back saying the air conditioner didn't work after I fixed the transmission. Needless to say the 2 aren't related. Or on the same end of the engine for that matter.
Someone asked how long the problem was going on. That's a must to find out in order to find the problem. House on a slab, chances are the plumbing is over head. Cold water coming out of the faucet can mean a bunch of things. How long did the water run before deciding only cold comes out? The farther from the water heater the longer it takes to warm the pipe so hot water can get there. Of course I'm guessing here but. There is hot water to the other tub? A couple questions that come to mind. Was she trying to get hot water to the tub after someone took a bath in the first tub? How large is the water heater? Can she get hot water from the sink in the effected bathroom? There's a little something extra to think about. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Howell To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:10 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] interesting hotwater issue Folks, I was visiting my grandmother last week and she was telling me about a problem she has been having. There are two bathrooms in her house and apparently one of the bath tubs has no hot water. She said there is water coming out of that side of the fixture, but it's only cold. Now I haven't gone to look at this because apparently my cousin's husband is a plumber, but it is unlikely he'll get to it any time soon. So, of course I'm really curious about the problem. The house is one level on a slab and a year or two back she had a humidifier installed, which she seems to think is the problem, but I doubt this, unless they installed a valve in the line that could interrupt the flow of water to that bathroom, but then there just wouldn't be any water at all if the valve was closed. So, surely it can't be a valve issue because again, if the valve anywhere in the line was closed, then you would have no water flow. My uncle who was a plumber mainly doing sprinkler systems for commercial buildings etc. wasn't even sure what the problem may be. So, I thought I'd toss the idea at you good people and see what ideas may flow. I know this isn't much info, but can't hurt to generate some thoughts. tnx, [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
