If you or someone are not handy with plumbing and hot water heaters than call a plumber right away. You may be in danger of a exploding water heater. For now, shut it off if you know how. If it is electric, go to the electrical service panel and flip off the breaker and if it is gas go to the water heater and at the base there is a control valve with a red selector dial marked with Off/Pilot/On turn it off. Now, on the top or top/side there is a pressure relief valve made of brass and it looks like a small faucet,it should have a pipe attached to the spout and a little metal flipper handle on top.( stand to one side of it if there is no pipe ). Now, flip the handle straight up. This process will "save the day" excess pressure will escape. You need, a new Relief Valve,(if elect.) adjust the thermostats down,and (if gas) turn the selector valve down.
It sounds like you may have some blockages in some of your cold water lines, or maybe a larger blockage in your main line. Try this:
next time you turn on a faucet and only hot water comes out of the faucet, go under your sink and disconnect the cold water line, and put a bucket down there with you and see if the water coming out of that is hot or cold. It may get down to the point of having to go through and start replacing faucets.
You (or whoever installed it) might have put the faucet in backwards. It still works perfectly fine but the cold lever is actually the hot water and the hot lever is actually cold water. When my dad put in my faucet he put it in backwards. If that is the case, then you should get used to it. If not then, you might have just had hot water on last, and it still has to change to cold water.
If the faucets were installed backwards, it would do it all the time. I can't believe all of lines were switched. There must be another reason and I can't figure out what it could be.
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