I agree with Eric, If the mixing valve is 18 years old, good possibility the hot side could be partially plugged. Another situation I have run into is the former owner (or someone) has replaced the outside hand held shower with a kitchen type sprayer. The issue with this set up, you can open both the hot and cold faucet and not know they are turned on. If that is the case you now have a mixing manifold that is allowing luke warm water to enter the hot side plumbing. Hope this helps, Fred