Hot water issues

Hi I'm a newbie. Thanks for any help. My wife and I have been without hot water for 3 days now. Turns out what we thought was a bad (new) water heater is not. Sears says it's fine. We are remodeling our bathroom and the guy reworked our shower/bath plumbing and it's ironic that we now have no hot water. They sheetrocked yesterday but we can't figure out why we are producing hot water via the water heater but we don't know where it's going. We can't get hot water out of our kitchen tap or our other bathroom faucet or shower. Could they have done something with the plumbing to cause the whole house to get jacked up?

Thanks!

Call the contractor and tell him about the problem & tell him to fix it.

No water at all from the hot side?
Or is it just cold?

If your new shower faucet is a Delta and there is a cap in place of the stem the hot is mixing with the cold at that point. If he installs the cartridge that will end your problem. The new faucets come with a plug to prevent this from taking place, but many plumbers don't install them because they don't what they are.

John

It's not just his bath though.

Cookie said:

It's not just his bath though.

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It would act the same way if the hot and cold were tied together at any point in the system. Hot mixing with cold = not very hot water. When Delta first came out with the 1700 they didn't supply plug needed and this was a common problem.

John

It is NOT ironic, it is because your plumber did not read the valve directions, if it is caused by a new Delta valve without the control mechanism.

For the OP.....help us out here, because we may be off on a tangent.....: IS your new valve a Delta? If so, is the handle installed? Do you have any COLD water in the shower.? And on the hot side, is it NO WATER or is it WATER but not hot???

Does your tub shower valve look like this?