Water pressure

[oggiet]

We moved into our house few months ago, it's on South coast.

Water pressure is crap, we got water softener straight after the stopcock in our garage which feeds the house.

Combi boiler on ground floor feeds bathroom on first floor, is there any way of increasing water pressure coming into the bathroom shower ?

Any help would be appreciated

 

[oggiet]

Do you have an individual water feed into your house or do you share the water feed with your neighbours (after the main stopcock in the road)?

We have a shared water feed with the neighbours and had bad water pressure for years. Turned out to be several leaks in the water pipe in our neighbours part of the pipe.

After the water company fixed the leaks the pressure was improved massively.

It's a detached house, our stop **** is in our garage and the main one is on the pavement. Each house has one on the pavement so don't think it's shared.

 

[oggiet]

Is the pressure crap, or is the flow rate crap. Our property was fed by a 3/4 inch pipe that had corroded down to 1/4 inch. The measured pressure was still high but the flow rate was a prostatic dribble.

To be honest I wouldn't know how to tell the difference
It's 90s house so don't think pipes are that old.
Think water pressure is crap and we have moved from London where we were spoiled with water pressure.

Guy that did our bathroom said it's normal for this area, just wondering if there is any way of increasing it.

 

[oggiet]

First thing to do is ask water company for a flow and pressure test. This will help identify if problem is at your end or theirs. There's a min standard which it would be good to get confirmation you're achieving before you take next steps.

That's great info, thank you.....will do that.

 

[oggiet]

if you can't fill a 1 litre jug in 7 seconds then you can complain to the water company the flow rate is too low, over twitter is probably the easiest way

you should be getting 10-15litres per minute.

my water pressure is all over the place, sometimes the showers so low I can barely feel the water hitting me :/ it's like a trickle with no force.

Thanks. I'll try jug measure on our cold tap in the kitchen where water hasn't been softened.

 

[oggiet]

The simplest way is to put a domestic booster pump. You can boost the entire house or choose a smaller unit to just boost a shower. There are also shower units with built in pumps. I have a small one on my kitchen tap. Cost starts at about £150 for one tap and about £300 for the entire house. Plus fitting, of course.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking, putting one in the garage just after the stopcock. That way entire house is boosted and noise is kept in the garage.