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  • 25-04-2007 10:41am
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    whippet
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    Looking for advise or suggestions !!

    I am having problems with water pressure, especially upstairs.

    Downstairs there seems to be pressure in the cold tap but upstairs little or none .. I assume this is causing the hot water tank to take for ever to fill.

    What could be causing the pressure drop to the upstairs?


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    10-10-20
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    What's the pressure in the hot tap like downstairs?
    The cold downstairs is lilely to be taken directly from the mains, so it's not a measure of pressure from the tank.
    Does the pressure from the hot and cold upstairs vary?


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    whippet
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    The pressure from the hot tap is very low up and downstairs.

    The pressure from the cold is alright downstairs but non existant upstairs after having a shower at night !!

    Normally there isn't equal pressure, the cold was always very strong and the hot was just normal !!


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    Reyman
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    Sounds like a problem in the feed(s) from the attic tank. The cold water at the upstairs tap is fed from this tank not the mains.
    So the cold and hot water upstairs will be at the same pressure.
    You should have 14' or so of a head at the hot tap downstairs so the pressure should be very high unless again there's a blockage somewhere


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    Reyman wrote:
    The cold water at the upstairs tap is fed from this tank not the mains.
    not in all houses reyman ,I've been in houses where everything is off the mains.
    It's usually in houses where the storage tank is on the roof of an extension ,or in an old council house where the hot water tank was fed from it's own tank.


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    There are areas in Dublin where the pressure is terrible,you'd be actually astonished at how little pressure there is.

    There is one problem with pipes that doesn't happen a lot ,dirt gets into the pipes.
    It actually blocks all your taps ,get a vacuum that hoovers water and try and suck dirt from the pipes. You might be able to borrow one.
    Or it could be a slight airlock ,a slight airlock is a small amount of air trapped that slows the water supply. A hoover would remedy it aswell.


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    Reyman
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    _Brian_ wrote:
    not in all houses reyman ,I've been in houses where everything is off the mains.
    It's usually in houses where the storage tank is on the roof of an extension ,or in an old council house where the hot water tank was fed from it's own tank.

    Check with your Council. I could be wrong but as I understand it you're not supposed to have more than one tap connected to the mains. This is to do with possible back contamination of the mains by a siphon effect from an upstairs tap


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