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Offline Richo

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Low cold water pressure
« on: April 27, 2011, 10:58:53 AM »
Hi I hope someone can help with my low cold water pressure, it has been slowly dropping over the past month or so, I live rural so on water tank.
Pump is good as I tried my spare, filters were replaced a month or two ago and when checked are still clean.
I have a outside tap taken off the pipe between filters and where pipe goes into house, pressure there is great so the issue is in the house somewhere. when you open two cold taps one will stop flowing, have noticed it due to temp setting on shower slowly having to be cranked around to get shower at nice temp. Hot water pressure not as it should be but the cold is most noticable.
any help would be appreciated, I am a tradesman so can make my own repairs but untill I understand the problem do not want to tackle the job.

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Re: Low cold water pressure
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2011, 06:53:11 PM »
Try ringing a tradesman..... ;D





Na hook a hose to the tap unhook the supply to the house(still leaving hose tap live) leave end going into house open(so you can back flush the line) and then go to your closest inside tap and then unhook the cold and adapt the open end(normaly have to go from 15mm brass to 20mm brass) then screw on hose fitting and plug in hose(to the cold water outlet for the tap inside) then go outside and turn on hose (which should be connected to the cold line inside) the if there is no blockage in that part of the line then the pressure and flow should be close to same as hose tap...and carry on to the next closest inside tap and repeat....visualy recording flow and pressure....hope fully this will at least give you a general idea on where the blockage is(if there is a blockage).???



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