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I had the same problem with my brand new Montana. I hated the shower, it did not get hot enough. It had a single handle which means, the hot and cold mixed. If we used the shower in the winter cold months, the water coming from the fresh water tank would be horrible cold, and then it would attempt to mix with the small amount of flow for the hot, making the final, very cold!
The way the handle worked, when you first turned on the water, it was all cold. Then as you turned the handle farther around, it would mix with the hot. The only problem was, it was NEVER truly hot.
Problem solved! Easy fix.
I pulled the handle assembly from the shower wall and simply switched the pipes. The hot line is now on the cold, and the cold line is now on the hot.
Now, when you first crack the faucet open, it's pulling all HOT, and the farther you turn the handle, it gets cooler. But just like before I did the switch, it will never ever get all cold now.
OK, so they installed it this way as a safety precaution so people won't burn themselves with very hot water, straight from the water heater. I get that. But here's the deal.... as long as everyone knows what's going on, they will know it starts hot.
BUT! like always, the hot water has to travel from the water heater to the faucet. Unless you are following someone else who JUST took a shower, the initial few seconds of the water running will be cold anyway. And then as the water from the water heater (hot) reaches the faucet, you can start turning it to the cooler setting.
This way, regardless of how cold the water is in the fresh water tank.... or directly from your garden hose, the water heater is always going to be the same temperature! Start hot, mix with cold. And now, we have nice HOT showers, even in the months of December, January, and February when the temperatures are below freezing.
Ever since I flipped the pipes, we've really enjoyed the shower. There is just the 2 of us, and maybe once or twice a season our son and grandson will join us for a week-end. When they take showers, we always remind them about the reversed faucet. No one has ever scaled or burned themselves.
It's an easy fix, and all you need is a Robertson screw driver to remove the screws from the faucet handle from the wall, and maybe a pair of plyers to start unscrewing the pipe connection at the back of the faucet, and then, some new silicon or bath tub calk to seal the faucet back to the wall again.
Easy Peasy!
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