I looked at the other post and tryed what they had to say about turning the two screws. it was no help I still have no water pressure. I put in a brand new well pump about a year ago. do i need to call a plummer
Find out for sure if your problam is water pressure or water volume. They can appear the same but actually have different causes. for example : If you have an old wheel handle gate valve anywhere"past the pump", such as one typicaly used at your garden hose fawcett, the gate, the part inside the valve that actually blocks the water passage way when the valve is in the closed position, can break away from the stem that is turning it... inside the valve body. It can break in the completely closed position or any partially closed/open position therfore limiting the amount of water that is allowed to pass through the valve body and into the house plumbing. This type of valve malfuntion can give the appearance of pressure or volume.
To get an idea if it is pressure, hold your thumb over a fawcett. If you can stop the water from spitting out from under your thumb, you may likley have a pressure problem. If you have a volume problem, you shouldn't be able to hold the pressure back with your thumb. Note: if you have very low flow, be sure to wait long enough to let the pressure build up under your thumb.
Good Luck
Rewes mentioned pressure and volume. Actually you have to have both for good water flow and pressure. If bypassing the softener gives you back your pressure then follow the advice given and call the softener guys. Good luck, Tom
If a gate valve drops in the completely closed position not allowing any water to pass. . . . of course you will have NO water to even deal with.
If your gate valve happens to drop and remain in a partially closed position, allowing less than a full pipe diameter of water to pass to the house plumbing, it will create a condition where there won't be enough water available to supply 1,2,or 3 open fawcetts at the same time. If you were able to attach a pressure gauge to each one of these open fawcetts. the gauge, after 1/2 a minute, would show a normal pressure reading for that system.
Where the confusion between pressure and volume begins is this : You have 1,2or 3 fawcetts flowing. You also have a Gate that has dropped to a partially open position not allowing the full pipe diameter of waterflow to supply the open fawcett or fawcetts. The first thing you are going to notice is the lack of force in which the water is exiting each fawcett. The average person is going to say . . . HEY! I don't have any water pressure!".
The pressure is fine but the volume is too small to supply each fawcett with enough water to exit the fawcetts with the same amount of force that they are used to seeing.
Please go back and read my original answer. Every response that comes thru on this site has many unspoken gray areas. Thanks
I agree, he could have old galvanized piping choking down the volume or he could have misadjusted the control box to lower the pressure going into the house.
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[Please go back and read my original answer. Every response that comes thru on this site has many unspoken gray areas. Thanks
Thanks for explaining volume and pressure for us. Now if you would just stick around and clear up those "gray areas" that we leave I'm sure we would all be grateful . We do appreciate your input. Regards, Tom
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