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Is there an easy fix for low water pressure in the house?

Posted on 2/2/25 at 6:40 pm
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
35290 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 6:40 pm
At the moment, I have zero appliances running that require water.

However, we always have what we consider to be low water pressure.

We will go to a friend’s or relative’s house that has great water pressure. So is there an easy way to fix this?


-Jealous
Posted by indytiger
baton rouge/indy
Member since Oct 2004
10122 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:20 pm to
Are you on a well or city water?
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
11415 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:24 pm to
How old is the house?
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
7151 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:25 pm to
Maybe contact 311 and tell them you suddenly experienced a drop in pressure? If you're not on well water you should be able to get them to come out and take a look. Do your neighbors have the same issue?

If it's unique just to you and you're not on a well, there could be some type of blockage or leak.
Posted by Saintsisit
Member since Jan 2013
4561 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:26 pm to
Hold your thumb on the tip of the faucet.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
5459 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:35 pm to
You can take the water savers out of your aerators and shower head.
There’s a gauge you can screw on your outside hose Bibb that’ll tell you the water pressure psi. Once you get that, maybe talk to the city.
Posted by Maillard
BTR
Member since Jul 2021
268 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:56 pm to
Your house most likely has a water shut off valve. Once they're about 20 years old the packing in them over time swells and let's less and less water through your valve. I ended up cutting mine out and putting another one at the street to shut my house off. It increased my water pressure tremendously. My house was 26 years old whenever I cut the valve out. We cut the valve in half and with it all The way I opened up with the packing was blocking most of the free space.
Posted by Cracker
in a box
Member since Nov 2009
18896 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 8:58 pm to
You have rust garbage sediment blocking your lines valves
Posted by Maniac979
The Great State of Texas
Member since Jan 2012
1960 posts
Posted on 2/2/25 at 9:25 pm to
Perhaps your PRV needs to be cleaned and adjusted.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
58416 posts
Posted on 2/3/25 at 1:25 am to
I had this problem, and I fricked with it for years, thinking it was my house piping. Turns out the shutoff valve at the meter was not all the way opened. It is a quarter-turn brass plug valve built into the water meter. Since the meter box is always full of water, I couldn’t see that the stop was broken off that valve allowing it to be turned to much and pinching down my supply. Once I discovered that, I was able to open it to the right position.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
17924 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:27 am to
What kind of water pipes do you have? If an older house with galvanized water lines, it is not uncommon for calcium deposits to form inside the pipes that significantly restrict water flow.

When I move into my current house in 92 I could not take a shower and it took about 15 minutes of water running to get enough water to take a bath. The house was over 60 years old at that time.

I removed all galvanized pipe and replaced it with 3/4 and 1/2 inch copper lines and have never had any issue since. It was night and day with water pressure.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
35290 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:29 am to
1989

With crawlspace.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
17924 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:00 am to
quote:

1989

With crawlspace.



I'll assume your lines are either PVC or copper being built in 89. By then, galvanized water pipes were a thing of the past with copper and PVC being so much easier to run.
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