The best one was the lady that thought she shared a mailbox, because she could see people inside....LOL

Yes you’re right, plus the pipes that come in your house aren’t down in the ground far enough. Just my opinion!

How about the lady who kept walking from her house to the mailbox because her computer was telling her she had mail.

Clearly

Ummmmm.... You aware that you live in the state of Florida, right? It's located in the south just in case you forgot.

Probably normal
 

It's probably normal due to the high heat and that water mains are not nearly as deep in the ground as places up north. If you want to be sure then turn off the hot water under the sink and run the cold water. If there is no change in temperature, then you know it's not a problem with your faucet. Good luck and stay cool.

There are actually places in Alaska where the freeze line is so deep that the water supply pipe needs to be installed aboveground and heated to prevent freezing.

My in-laws who lived in Sun City, AZ would turn off their water heater in the summer and use the hot water tap for cold water and the cold water tap for hot water. The water heater was inside so it was in the air conditioned space and much cooler that way.

Going a different direction on this, but wonder why we don't see more use of solar for hot water in Florida (not talking about pools)? Funny that we spend tons of money to try to turn sunlight into electricity, when the natural use would be to heat water.

If I want to water my plants with a hose in summer, I literally have to run two gallons into a bucket to get the water cool enough to not boil the plants.

Not funny at all

The OP was just asking a question, he was not complaining and probably did not need an explanation of how to get cold water.......

Have you ever seen a lengthy thread on here that did not wander off course with people trying to supply helpful info to OP or others?

Unless you have a really good whole house filter, you probably won't want to know how bad the "tap" water is here. When I change my filter, every six months, it is covered in brown slimy mud-like substance. Nasty looking. I make my coffee and iced tea via the refrigerator filtered water. I am still not too enthusiastic about the water.

I use a Britta water pitcher. Fill it at the sink. The water goes through the filter and I keep it in the refrigerator. Works well for me.

Or never read another post except OP……and post the same thing over and over.:censored:

I have the same problem. It has nothing to do with Florida. It’s because they’ve change the piping to be that cheap PVC plastic stuff and it picks up the heat. I had regular copper pipes in my old house (Palm Harbor FL), Water was always cold, out of the faucet, no matter how hot it got outside. As far as water towers go, I haven’t seen any around But if there are, that could be a problem too

Geeze!
 

users are not allowed to direct comments toward another user.

Look up!

Is this really a problem for anyone?

Very true.

Obviously it is for people used to colder water coming out of the tap.

Thankfully we can get cold water directly from the fridge adding ice to make my drink as cold as I want it to be

If you get hot water very quickly in all your faucets throughout your house (I.e. not wait 20 - 25 seconds before you get hot water) then you most likely have a hot water circulating system. Many times to save money on the installation, the installers may use the cold water pipes to circulate the hot water, thus you can get very warm to even hot water from your cold faucets. This is just one explanation for your warm water situation.

Then why did you respond to (and quote) another poster

You "literally have boiling water" coming out of your hose? So hot that it "boils your plants"?

Maybe they have a black hose...:shrug:

I never thought about the effect of the heat and sun on the water towers. It got me thinking about those things. Anybody here know what the volume capacity of those things is, and how many days it takes to do a 100% turnaround of the water in there.
I was playing Palmer one day and the big tower on Laurel Valley was being painted. Seeing human beings way up there gave it a frame of reference of size and height. Looking up at those people painting it made me woozy. So did the smell of the paint. But it was pretty cool.

Very confused. If you want to comment on someones post is that not addressing another poster? This is done here all the time.

When is it ok and when is it not?

Cold water temp is 85 degrees in summer. Could almost turn off water heater.

Yes, it’s not the water in the hose that gets baked in the sun all day.

You can buy a water chiller, either for a small area of your plumbing or the whole house. I don’t know how much it would cost to run the water chiller. Just search for “whole house water chiller”.

You can also get a water chiller for your pool. Some electric heat pumps that heat pools are reversible and can cool the water temperature. The heat pumps that have the chiller option cost about $1,000 more. If we added a heat pump to our pool, I would pay the extra $1,000 for the chiller option.

The cold water in Minnesota is a lot colder than the water temperature in Florida. I’ve never been a fan of cold tap water, otherwise I’d buy a whole house water chiller. Although I freeze partially filled water bottles to keep bottled drinking water cold. I never drink water from the tap. I always drink from water bottles. If that’s the case for you, just freeze partial water bottles to chill the bottled water that you add to your frozen water bottles.

You can run the cold water tap till the cows come home. When the temps are this high you will never get cold water. If you drunk tap water it is a good idea to keep a pitcher in your fridge.

It’s normal here. You finally get to feel some cold water when it gets cold out for a month or two and then the rest of the year it’s warm. It’s just a part of living in sunny Florida.

Good answer. Thanks for the giggle.

Good reason for humans NOT to live in Alaska.
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~Bill Engvall 🤪

If you get a larger watering can, mixed hot & cold (warm) water is less of a shock for the plants. Warm water is also much better to use with plant food.

A 100ft garden hose holds a little over 1.5 gals of water. So sure, running the 1.5gals of hot water out of the hose and then a little more to absorb the heat of the hose itself makes sense.

(Boiling? Literally 212 degrees?)

You can quote, but not attack or abuse another poster.

Yes, I understand that 212 degree Fahrenheit is boiling. And 100 degrees Celsius. And 373 Kelvin. It was a little hyperbole.

Guess I should have said wilt. :sigh:

Great answer
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People do criticize others posts all the time. Guess it is up to the severity of the criticism that gets one into trouble