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Residential hot water drop in pressure
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| dpatrick@volcanomail.com 2006-05-15, 3:21 pm |
| Hi,
A relative of mine recently installed a bathroom fixture for the sink.
And now there seems to be a drop in the hot water pressure throughout
his house.
Any suggestions as to what may be the most likely causes?
Thank you,
Dean
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| Mike Grooms 2006-05-15, 4:21 pm |
| Dean,
Did your relative shut off the whole house, or did he maybe shut off
the water heater valve? If the hot water pressure drop is system-wide,
then either the cold feed to the water heater isn't on all the way, or
there's some rust obstructing a main hot pipe somewhere. It'll take
some detective work.
Mike
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| Ned Flanders 2006-05-15, 7:21 pm |
| I "fixed" a customers water pressure problem just a couple of days ago by
opening their main shut off valve all the way.
"Mike Grooms" <ironmike@fuse.net> wrote in message
news:96f$4468d092$d8c48df7$7219@FUSE.NET...
> Dean,
>
> Did your relative shut off the whole house, or did he maybe shut off the
> water heater valve? If the hot water pressure drop is system-wide, then
> either the cold feed to the water heater isn't on all the way, or there's
> some rust obstructing a main hot pipe somewhere. It'll take some
> detective work.
>
> Mike
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