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The water heater is the first place to start when there is no hot water in the shower. A shower should be counted on to be good and hot when you need it to be. But keep in mind that the hot water coming from a shower is coming from your hot water heater tank.etermine if the problem is whole-house related or just affecting the shower. Turn on every hot water faucet and check the temperature of the hot water. If they all start out hot but cool quickly, a burner in the water heater may be the cause. If they never get hot, a faulty dip tube may be the problem.
How to know if you have good water pressure. If you doubt if your shower supply pipe has enough water pressure to power a good flow of water though a shower head, the easiest thing to do is to take the shower head off the supply pipe and turn on the water.he second is to remove the shower head or hand held shower flow restrictor. First, turn the shower on, rotate the spray selector all the way to the left, and then to the right, and then move it to the center position. Turn the shower on for two seconds and then off again.