Jon Tungsten
New Member
Friends,
I have been struggling with the water pressure in our master bathroom for quite some time now. We remodeled the house with all new plumbing and are not able to get adequate pressure.
Here are the details:
1” water supply coming from the street to meter in basement
1” pex water supply line from meter to pex manifold - about 30’ run
1” pex line (hot and cold) from manifold to master shower valve about 25’ run
Shower has one valve that controls 2 shower heads (one wall mount and one ceiling mount rainfall)
Valve- http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articl...static-trim-with-volume-control-04352000.html
Shower head 1 - http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-clubmaster-3-jet-showerhead-28496001.html
Shower head 2 - http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-croma-croma-220-air-1-jet-showerhead-26465001.html
We had our contractor run the plumbing and he is not a licensed plumber. The goal was to get great water pressure in the shower so he thought the 1” lines might help. My understanding is that we have good water pressure coming from the street – the sinks have great pressure – though I don’t know what the PSI is. When we run the shower there it is not close to normal water pressure coming out of the shower heads. I had to take out the shower head filter and water volume reducer just to get somewhat decent pressure. Of course, this just dumps the water out and is a huge waste of water. I demoed shower head 1 in a show room and it had tremendous pressure granted it wasn’t going through a mixing valve.
Does anybody have any ideas here? Was it a mistake running the 1” line? Does the valve have any adjustments that can be made? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon T.
I have been struggling with the water pressure in our master bathroom for quite some time now. We remodeled the house with all new plumbing and are not able to get adequate pressure.
Here are the details:
1” water supply coming from the street to meter in basement
1” pex water supply line from meter to pex manifold - about 30’ run
1” pex line (hot and cold) from manifold to master shower valve about 25’ run
Shower has one valve that controls 2 shower heads (one wall mount and one ceiling mount rainfall)
Valve- http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articl...static-trim-with-volume-control-04352000.html
Shower head 1 - http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-clubmaster-3-jet-showerhead-28496001.html
Shower head 2 - http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-croma-croma-220-air-1-jet-showerhead-26465001.html
We had our contractor run the plumbing and he is not a licensed plumber. The goal was to get great water pressure in the shower so he thought the 1” lines might help. My understanding is that we have good water pressure coming from the street – the sinks have great pressure – though I don’t know what the PSI is. When we run the shower there it is not close to normal water pressure coming out of the shower heads. I had to take out the shower head filter and water volume reducer just to get somewhat decent pressure. Of course, this just dumps the water out and is a huge waste of water. I demoed shower head 1 in a show room and it had tremendous pressure granted it wasn’t going through a mixing valve.
Does anybody have any ideas here? Was it a mistake running the 1” line? Does the valve have any adjustments that can be made? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon T.