Checking water pressure

[James Salisbury]

Hi,

You can get pressure reduction valves

work out cheaper than the hozelock kit.

James

[Gordon Henderson]

Thanks - got them in-mind, however there is a secondary problem of flow-rate which is rather pathetic and the water people say that as it's an issue on my property they can't do anything about it. (They did replace the street stop c*ck though). So 8.5 bar but less than 10 litres per minute.

I think there's a pipe crushed under the alleyway, but digging it up isn't an option right now..

Cheers,

Gordon

[Scott M]

I'm always impressed that the joints don't just explode. The plastic always seems quite thin and takes a hammering being dropped, etc.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Timothy Murphy saying something like:

Tell my Group Scheme (or LA) that. Last time I measured it, it was up over 10bar in the wee small hours. A bit lower during the day, of course, but still too high. I found it an absolute necessity to fit a pressure reducer. Amusingly, the mains pipe in the road suffers from a leak or catastrophic blowout every month or so, somewhere up the line from me. Will the LA fit pressure reducers? No, that's too fecking simple.