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How do you low the water pressure?
Install a pressure reducing valve.Improved answerIf your home is on City water, then you have a PRV where it comes in the home, this can be adjusted to lower or raise pressure. To do this properly buy a pressure gauge that screws onto a garden faucet fixture. (about $10 in good plumbing stores) All you need to adjust the valve is 2 wrenches and some patience.If you are on a well this is a totally different problem. Here you need to reduce the air charge in your pressure tank, but adjust the pressure switch also. If you haven't done this before, call a well technician (NOT a plumber -they generally know nothing about well systems)
Your water pressure is low in your house and you are on a well what do you do?
You first need to check the tank air pressure. This is done at a nipple a bit like a bicycle tire nipple, usually near the top of the tank. check with an ordinary tire pressure gauge. -If less than 25psi, you need to re-charge the air. This is best done by a well technician (not a plumber) who understands the ways to charge different tanks. A well tech can also check the pressure switch, control box and pump from the surface. - Many problems can cause this, and if you have no knowledge of well systems the best way is to call a well tech. (some plumbers, but by no means all understand wells)
What measures water pressure?
A water pressure gauge. There is one mounted on every well pressure tank, and most well techs and some plumbers carry portable ones that can be screwed onto a garden faucet to read home pressure
How do you increase your well water pressure?
- The pump has no bearing at all on the water pressure. Your household pressure id determined by the residual air pressure in the tank, and the pressure switch settings. Any well technician can get any pressure you wish up to about 80 psi without touching the pump.
Do you have a problem your well Water Pump Pressure Control Switch is making a lot of noise and you have a lot of air in your water lines?
You need to switch off the pump, drain the pressure tank and fit a new pressure switch. They are cheap and often last only a few years. When re fitting make sure the pressure tank residual pressure is about 2 PSI LESS than the pressure switch ON setting. In most domestic wells systems the pressure switch comes ON at 30 PSI, so the tank air should be 28 or so..
