| One of the most common complaints about water heater is "not enough hot water." You see that all the time on this forum.
Unfortunately, people get all kinds of advice on this, most of it bad in my opinion. "Not enough hot water" can have quite a number of causes, and really requires careful service by an experienced repairman to diagnose the actual cause.
Of course, it's a lot easier to diagnose the wrong cause of this problem, which is what people very often get.
Local repairmen ought to know about a code requirement that requires this kind of tempering valve and be on the lookout for it. They may not be able to remove it, but they should at least tell the home moaner about it.
Unfortunately, this sounds like just another layer of nannystateism by elected officials that have too much time on their hands. If people want that in their homes, that's fine with me. But I certainly wouldn't want the oily hands of politicians requiring that to be installed in my home.
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