Your water heater is set too hot or you don't have a mixing valve after your water heater
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I know most chronic internet users don’t adjust their boiler temp settings. But there are easy ways to fix this.
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I could've sworn there was a Seinfeld bit about the shower temperatures being sensitive when you adjust the tap but I can't find it now
...yes, that used to be a thing before thermostatic valves were commonplace...
Yeah I really thought the bit would come up easily. I can hear his voice saying something like "a million degrees" or "hotter than the surface of the sun". It probably also started with the classic "what's the deal with..." that he used.
Lower flow temperature makes it easier to adjust.
Come to Japan (and, so I've heard, several European countries) where we have a temperature setting on the tap. Mine caps at 40 by default, but you can press a little button and make it hotter if desired (up to however hot your water heater puts out).
Most of these types of faucets have a regulator in them as well in the US, you have to take off the handle to set it and most people never bother to do so.
My kitchen faucet is like this. It's one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard