Why don't I have water. I noticed last night that I had no water, and eventually I tried 2toilets, the bathroom and kitchen sink. No water. I assumed the water was turned off for the n'hood**, but I taked to awoman 5 doors away and she said she drank bottled water, but she checkedand she had water. Then I figured that she was just going by the watercoming out of her garden hose, and that was just the water in the pipesdraining. Still it seemed like quite a bit so I just called my nextdoor neighbor and he has water too!!**Probably because the original builder used the wrong kind of waterpipes, trucks driving over the road have broken the water mains in thearea several times, and indded there are again two streams of waterrunning down the street to the drain, from different directions, butthey are like leaky washers, not enough to deplete the water pressure.Every time a repair is done, it's about 10,000 dollars, 100 to each hhousehold, not even countiung repairing the asphault or cement, whichnever looks as good as it did originally, and it seems we need 2 more. How can I not have water? It's not that I didn't pay the bill, all 100of us share one bill, and it gets paid every month whether I do anythingor not. I noticed when the water worked that when I turn on the water,especially the hot water, after a couple minutes it runs less stronglythan it did at first. Have any of you noticed that? How come? But it never turns off entirely. Did a stone get stuck in the pipe? First, we have no stones in ourwater, not even tiny pebbles, not even sand. It's not some communalwell... the water comes from 3 reservoirs, so it's made of water. Allthe fish are removed at the water plant. There's a valve to turn the water off inside my basement, but it's hardto turn and takes several turns to do it. I can't imagine that aburglar turned my water off when I was away yesterday evening. Where did my water go?

Is your water meter spinning like crazy?

Where is my water?

Apr 25, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 24 Replies

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rbowman 2 years ago

Sexist pig! Two should do. I've used more when working with Harbor Freight crap where the threads were hand chewed by a Chinese chipmunk but it's overkill with decent fittings.

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micky 2 years ago

Pressure tank? Pump?

I don't have an expansion tank, only the hot water tank. Is that what you mean?

Don't have a pump either.

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Bob F 2 years ago

Does your water source? If there is a gauge at your regulator you could watch to see if the drop you see is from the water source.

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micky 2 years ago

No gauge, though i'm probably going to buy one, because some of the presssure regulators gave disclaimers and said to check if they are really set right. they're only 10 or 13 dollars, mostly.

Some small pressure regulators have built-in valves. They're inexpensive too but seem to be for RVs. I wonder if I can register my house as an RV and then I can use one.

My street number is 5230, but I can start using 5230RV. That will probably work.

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Bob F 2 years ago

There are pressure gauge assemblies that screw onto hose bibbs.

I believe that where I live, pressure regulators have to have double check valves with proper test ports. I don't have a regulator or check valve on my old house.

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