Water & bathing temperature log

Recording tool

Record the temperature you actually measured, fixture by fixture — and keep the log that proves somebody checked.

The building

This is a recording tool. It writes down the temperature you measured and lets you flag a problem; it does not decide whether a temperature is safe, compliant or acceptable. There is no single national hot-water temperature: what applies to your building comes from your state and local rules, your licence conditions, your own water management plan and your AHJ, and scald risk and Legionella risk pull in opposite directions. Set your own target below if you have one, and the log will flag readings outside it — against YOUR figure, not against ours.

Where the reference figures come from

Water management control-point monitoring — temperature and disinfectant residual. 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 §7, 2018 edition · record: readings against control limits. · retention: survey cycle · checked July 2026

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 — skin burns fast above 120 °F — and too cold lets Legionella grow, so the safe window is narrow and worth documenting. Industry practice (senior-living task library) · record: temperature log by location. · retention: minimum 1 year · checked July 2026

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.

Your own target (optional)

Leave both boxes empty and the log simply records what you measured. Put your own figures in — from the rule that actually applies to your building, or from your own plan — and readings outside them are flagged on the record. The figures are yours; this tool does not supply them.

The locations

One card per location. Your list is kept for this building, so next time you open the tool and start recording rather than typing.

Temperature readings

The temperature you actually measured, at the fixture, after letting it run.

No readings yet — add the first one below.

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 licence 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. 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 §7, 2018 edition. 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 — skin burns fast above 120 °F — and too cold lets Legionella grow, so the safe window is narrow and worth documenting. 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.

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.