There is low water pressure in the house, about 25 psi. When taking a shower the water never seems to get hot. The showerhead has a 1.5 GPM flow restrictor in it. Is this adding to the problem of the hot & cold water mixing?
2006-12-26 10:34:28 · 4 answers · asked by kkenn74 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
First things first,25psi is to low to run a normal household.Here are some things to try that are cheep and easy to do.
1. Buy a cheap pressure gauge from HomeDepot about $9.00 and put it on your outside faucet.The pressure should be 50-70psi.
2.Somewhere in the service line that comes into the home there is a regulator that controls how much water pressure enters the home,these go bad quite often and need to replaced.
3.If none of these work for you have the city or county flush the lines unless you are on a well.If that is the case your pump or water level could be playing tricks on you.
4.Almost forgot you also could have a busted buried supply line coming into your house from the meter
2006-12-26 10:55:50 · answer #1 · answered by Rio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first thing is yes you indeed do have low water pressure in your house. 25 psi is just not gonna cut it in a house. You want about 60psi if possible.
As far as the water in your shower not getting hot I would take the following steps first to see if they resolve the problem.
1. Have someone check the pressure restrictors both inside and outside your house to fix this low water pressure problem
2. Check the efficiency of your hot water heater. How many gallons does it keep heated? ect.
The showerhead has no issue in your hot water problem, and my best guess on your hot water problems lie in your water heater.
2006-12-26 11:51:31 · answer #2 · answered by travis R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
really spread out over a number of those solutions is the right one! in the start, your mains pressure is over 4 bar and your warm water pressure is calculated with the help of measuring the gap between your warm water cylinder and your bathe head (vertically for sure) that is 0.a million bar for each a million meter (that is termed head pressure) besides, that's all technical and also you extremely dont favor to artwork it out. you'll choose a bath pump as a fashion to get an excellent bathe. A a million.5bar pump should be sufficient and may be extra at any bathing room save, b&q and so on. yet what the different solutions fail to point is you want to make confident that your warm water cylinder is enormous sufficient. If the tank is too small then the pump will draw the water out too rapidly and also you'd be showering chilly and be left with out warm water until eventually it heats up back. you may degree the cylinder with a tape degree if its not written on it. The cylinder should be a minimum of 40 5" tall, if it isnt then the probability is you'll choose a clean cylinder to handle a bath pump. Failing this an electric powered bathe may be outfitted as they basically require a chilly mains feed pipe. desire this facilitates.
2016-12-01 04:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about changing the ratio between the two by opening one more than the other? They are never equal anyway.
2006-12-26 10:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋