All,
I own a condo that was built in the mid to late 70's. Recently, we had individual water meters installed at each unit, and a plumbing company installed PRV's at each unit as well. Started noticing some strange things after this happened. First - the water pressure was cut in half...which is not all that bad, being that our pressure was around 105 pounds prior. Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that our pressure seems to build. For example, after some time not using the water, I can flip on the kitchen sink and the pressure is extremely high - then levels out.
The plumber came out again and replaced the PRV - still notice the problem!
Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the problem here? I would also mention that our hot water heater is quite old (not sure how old...but during the inspection we were told that it probably had a couple of years left). Could this be a potential culprit?
Thanks
Chris