Water Pressure Problem

OraarO

Hi all plumbers -

In my home, the water pressure (cold) is good at all faucets, washer, etc. The hot water is fine only coming out of the basement laundry faucet.

What might be the problem?

We have no water softner, a fairly new (5 - 10 year old) water heater.

One concern is their is a rust color buildup that comes out of the faucets if we have not used for several days, and a yellow buildup on aereators (sp?) that needs to be rinsed off maybe once a year.

Is this maybe blockage in the pipes? Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Teetorbilt

The rust color is probably coming from old galvanized pipes that are somewhere in your system. It's most common in the run from the meter/well to the house.

Your thoughts about a blockage on the hot side parallel mine. A chunk of scale could have easily come loose at some point and only recently flipped over to block your supply of hot.

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Ron The Plumber

I think it's time for you to repipe with pex piping.

Teetorbilt

Like a repipe is cheap! If I'm going plastic, I'm going PU and not PE. I'm also going SS Cammozzi, not cheap.

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masterk

Years back there was a problem with the dip tube breaking up. Turn off the water to your house, remove the stem to one of the hot supply angle stops. If it has small pieces of plastic in it then thats it. You will have to do every fixture like this, maybe more than once.

roullette

well my personal opinion would be to put a pressure gauge on the draw off at the water meter (if there is one) or on a silcock to get a good reading of what your pressure is at.

also do you have a 2nd floor? house old? what size is your water main?
if you flush a toilet does your water pressure drop alot at your bathroom faucet?

could be a pipe sizing issue or like someone just posted if you have an old house with galvi pipe they could be rusting out and/or full of sediment.