Water & bathing temperature log

Why there is no number in the box

Almost every water temperature template prints a figure and calls it the requirement. There isn’t one. Scald prevention pushes the temperature delivered at a fixture down; Legionella control pushes the temperature water is stored and distributed at up. Which figures apply to your building come from your state and local rules, your license conditions, your own water management plan and your AHJ — and they are not the same building to building.

So this tool records the measurement. If you have a target, put it in and readings outside it are flagged on the record as measured against your figure. If you do not, the log simply carries the number, which is still the thing an inspector asks to see.

What the reference rows say

Water management control-point monitoring — temperature and disinfectant residual, at the frequency your own plan sets. Take the readings your plan calls for at each control point: hot water temperature, cold water temperature, and disinfectant residual. Log every one, including the ones that are out of range, along with what you did about them. ASHRAE 188 does not fix a monitoring frequency — it requires your own plan to set one for each control measure, so the weekly cadence shown here is our default starting point and not a code interval. Replace it with whatever your plan says. ASHRAE 188 (your own plan sets the frequency), cited from the 2018 edition; the edition your state or AHJ adopted governs. Record: readings against control limits. Retention: survey cycle.

Hot water temperature test and log at resident fixtures (scald prevention). Measure the water temperature at resident sinks and tubs and log it. Too hot scalds and too cold lets Legionella grow, so the window is narrow and worth documenting. There is no single national figure: what applies to you comes from your state and local rules, your license conditions, your own water management plan and your AHJ. Industry practice (senior-living task library). Record: temperature log by location. Retention: minimum 1 year.

This is the national consensus baseline, with the edition each figure was checked against. Whether it applies to your building — and at what frequency — depends on the code edition your jurisdiction has adopted, your occupancy, your equipment's listing, the manufacturer's instructions and your authority having jurisdiction. Confirm it with them. This tool records what you did; it makes no determination that any facility is compliant.

Built for the round

Your locations are kept per building, so next month you open the tool and start measuring rather than start typing. Readings carry their own date, time and inspector, so one log can cover a month of rounds by different people.

The rest of the facility log family

The kitchen equivalent is the refrigerator & freezer temperature log. For life safety there are the extinguisher, emergency lighting and generator logs, and the compliance calendar puts every test on a date with the code behind each.

Where the temperatures you take come from

A hot water temperature is a reading; what makes it mean anything is the program that decided to take it, at that outlet, on that day, against a limit somebody set. The water management plan builder writes that program for your building — the systems, the flow diagram, the control points and who is responsible — and this log is where the readings it calls for get recorded. Neither states a temperature: the limit is yours to set, and this product has read no rule that sets one for you.

A record of temperatures you measured. CompliMaint sets no temperature requirement and makes no determination that any facility is compliant — your licensing agency and your authority having jurisdiction do that. Everything runs on your device.