Maybe I just missed this, but are both the hot and cold pressures equally / similarly low? And is the problem pretty much everywhere in the house, or only at a few outlets like the bath?
The hot pressure (or flow) seems worse than the cold, and it certainly seems worse upstairs. Unfortunately I spent the weekend in the office so had no chance to check anything out.
I am 99% certain I am not on any kind of community well - I actually moved from the house directly across the street and never had a water problem. A neighbor did mention she had her pipes replaced, so I guess that might be the solution. Any donations gratefully accepted…
This is a big sign of scale build up in the pipes. In my old house (built 1948, galvanized pipe), I could not even get a pencil though the center of a 3/4" hot water line there was so much build up. The cold was not nearly as bad. I ended up replacing all the pipe from the water heater onwards with copper, it only took me 3 days.
Sure, if I had known about the problem before we finished the construction. But I didn’t lay the incoming water pipe myself…and to say the idiot that did fucked up is an understatement. The only way to shut the water off inside the house? Is to go all the way down to the street where they installed a cut off valve. Sure a lot of older homes don’t have a main shut off, but there is no reason now not to have put one inside the house someplace. So now I’ll just wait for the city to put us on city water (should be in a couple of years). It’s not worth trying to shove in a fix at this point. Besides, I still have to replace the shower in the master bathroom that he put in wrong. Ahhh…joys of home ownership. :smack:
Ahh, thanks for that. I was just down in the basement, eyeing my collection of galvanized iron. When you think about it, an old house doesn’t really have all that extensive a pipe network.
I could have probably done it faster, maybe in 1 long day (~16 hours). I leisurely built a second network next to the old network over two days, and on the third day I turned off the water, hooked in the new network, and turned back on the water without a single leak :). I then demolished the galvanized system with a 4.5" grinder with a cutting blade and a sawsall in <2 hours.