Shower fixture replacement in a BF10.4E
I have complained about the poor quality of RV shower fixtures and also the weather. I can't do anything about the weather, but I did replace my shower fixture. The factory installed the standard P...
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One more thing I may do eventually: for some reason RV hot water heaters do not have a "tempering valve" on the output. The hot water capacity is modest, usually 6 gallons, so the temperature on them is set very high, giving you more usable volume of warm water because you mix in a large percentage of cold before use. However this raises the possibility of scalding, particularly when assisted by the horrible Phoenix fixtures. If you add a thermostatically controlled tempering valve on the hot water output, the cold water is mixed with the hot to automatically produce hot water into the system at a tolerable temperature - and more of it. Also it makes temperature adjustment at the faucet easier, since the hot water supply is a more constant temperature, unaffected (within limits) by the cycling of the hot water heater.
