[jess]

We bought a house about a month ago, and I have an odd question. I'll probably end up calling a plumber here, but I thought maybe we were missing something simple the someone could answer...

Our hot water pressure is fine sometimes and terrible at other times. The cold water pressure is always good. There's just the two of us, and it's not that we've used up all the hot water. Usually there is only hot water pressure in the afternoon. Why is it sometimes fine and sometimes not?

Also, when the pressure is good, it will 'stutter' every few minutes - all the sudden no hot and then it's all back after a second.

Blockage in the pipes that moves somehow so it blocks sometimes more than others???

Any thoughts appreciated before we shell out for a visit from the plumber.

Thanks!!
J

[pieeater]

What sort of system do you have?.Is it an unequal one i.e.do you have a pipe sticking out of your roof?

[wilson182]

We have just bought a house ourselves and had a building inspection done. This is what he found, it may be completly unrelated to the problems you are having. The house is on a back section and shares a drive with the house next door, also on a back section. The house was built in 1975 and although there are two water pipes from the main street when the house was being built the council inspector found that the plumber had connected both houses to one pipe rather than two. This will have caused an issue with water pressure at certain times when both houses where having a demand on the water. In the file there was a record of the previous owner to our vendor asking the council to look at it. We haved asked the current owner if she has a water pressure problem at times and she said no, so it may have been sorted but we will have to see.

[jess]

wilson - we are the back home of two houses with one water line running up from the street, so you might have hit it dead on, but I don't understand why it wouldn't affect all of our water pressure and not only the hot water, if it's related to our neighbors?

pieeater - that looks like a great question, and I will ask my OH when he gets home. :o but i don't think we have a pipe sticking out of our roof at all. the rheem water heater says 'low pressure, triple inlet, 180 ltrs.'

i'm clueless. maybe i should go on and call the plumber in.

[jess]

:D pieeater offered advice that fixed this for me, and I'm all set now! many thanks!

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:D pieeater offered advice that fixed this for me, and I'm all set now! many thanks!

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