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Originally Posted by avanti
Is the shower head the kind with a shutoff button and which dribbles constantly when this button is activated? The purpose of this dribble is to prevent the kind of pressure-based mixing that you describe (although it is more common and more dangerous for the hot water to force its way into the cold). People think that this dribble is a fault, but it is in fact a safety feature (albeit a hacky one).
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Yes it does have it, but the problem is that. The issue is that these fancy showerhead creates a lot of backpressure, dumping the cold water in and washing out my hot water. The other crap showerhead I have on simply leaks a lot of water when I am showering. I can see the pointly sharp water jets, but there is a large stream of water coming down below it instead of going back to the hot. I am confident the one way check valve will fix the problem. I can only install the check valve on the hot, not enough space in the cold.