Hot Water Plumbing Problems

[danielhudson]

Hey there.
So we have an old home (1902) that is 3 stories.
We currently have a tenant in our ground floor apartment. She just informed me that she is unable to get the hot water to come out of the bathroom sink tap.
She could let it run and run and it will not get hot at the sink tap.
Her kitchen sink tap works fine.
Our kitchen sink tap works fine.
Our 3rd floor bathroom sink gets hot pretty quickly but
our 2nd floor bathroom sink tap has the same problem that out tenant does...
Our 2nd floor bathroom sink hot water has NEVER gotten hot (unless I take a shower in there beforehand) and we've just learned to live with it, since our primary bathroom is on the 3rd floor...
Anyway, this is a new problem ( we think) for our ground floor bathroom sink as our previous two tenants never mentioned it.

We have a tank (blech) water heater 80 gal on the ground level of the house, so her bathroom is actually the closest to the source of hot water.

We can't figure this out.

Any ideas oh plumbing gifted folks out there? Thanks!

[no brown lawns]

You need to run a second tap line to her appartment.
In other words. you must have two lines to make up the diffrence in supply of water at a given time.
Otherwise,
You will need to saparate your line so that there are two water heater feeding both of you.

[Spoiled]

YEah, is there a mainline going up to your apartment and it feeds to he lower off a smaller line?

The water will go through the larger line and feed off so if you are using yours it will go to the least resistance then go out to the other line.

[MASTERMOWER]

This is a lawn and landscaping forum......

1902? Have the pipes ever been replaced? Call a plumber.

[Inthegreen]

This is weird, but not uncommon. I would make sure that the connections are right. It sounds simple, but sometimes crazy things happen, especially in a rental. What's weird is that no one else has mentioned anything. Is she a new tenant?

[Chuck Sinclair]

This is weird, but not uncommon. I would make sure that the connections are right. It sounds simple, but sometimes crazy things happen, especially in a rental. What's weird is that no one else has mentioned anything. Is she a new tenant?

You did notice that this post is from 2008 right?