I´ve gotta tell you, I love hot water - hot showers, hot baths, hot springs, steam baths, you name it. Heck, I even take my morning cup of tea extra hot. But while I have a pretty high resistance to heat, even I´ve gotten burned on occasion by an extra hot tap or a poorly timed mid-shower toilet flush. Increasingly there are regulations on new construction to try to prevent burns from hot water, but if you live in an older home with plumbing that hasn´t been updated in the last 5-10 years, you probably don´t have any of the newer, relatively easy to install anti-scalding safe guards. Read full article