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Water pressure drops in tub/shower when showering
This is an old house(early 70's) with an original tub/shower enclosure. When showering, for the first 2 minutes everything is fine. Then the water pressure drops to a trickle. Temperature doesn't change just the pressure. Shut the shower off at the tub faucet and start it over, the pressure is fine for another 2 minutes. Problem is not the shower head, we use a detachable hose/sprayer. Is the problem in the shower control on the faucet where it closes off partially after two minutes or somewhere else I'd rather not know about?
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If your plumbing is metal, maybe the rust is closing it up inside. That's what happened to the place where I used to work. They didn't replace the pipes though, they hired a company who cleans these pipes by applying a lot of water pressure to them and so releasing some of the rust, I think. But that was a big building and it was cost efficient to do it that way, in a house however, maybe replacing the pipes would be better, I hope your problem is simpler than this though, good luck.
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