This started because I need to buy new kitchen tap and need to work out pressure first.
I got a pressure gauge and stuck it on the kitchen mixer tap with a rubber adaptor. This showed me: Cold 1.3 Bar, Hot 1.9 Bar.
Now here is the puzzle: until I measured it I believed that I had very low water pressure. For instance if the washing machine and dishwasher both try to fill at the same time they can't. Or if I run the cold tap when one is filling it stops it filling. The garden tap (which comes straight off under the kitchen sink) won't run a sprinkler well and won't trigger my pressure washer.
So, I am puzzled as those numbers are apparently classed as High Pressure by tap makers.
The cold is mains fed and the hot comes from a cylinder which is filled from a cold tank in the loft. The cylinder is on the ground floor near the kitchen (so all water for upstairs is pumped - used to be a bungalow).
My instinct tells me that perhaps the gauge is wrong but any advice is welcome!
I got a pressure gauge and stuck it on the kitchen mixer tap with a rubber adaptor. This showed me: Cold 1.3 Bar, Hot 1.9 Bar.
Now here is the puzzle: until I measured it I believed that I had very low water pressure. For instance if the washing machine and dishwasher both try to fill at the same time they can't. Or if I run the cold tap when one is filling it stops it filling. The garden tap (which comes straight off under the kitchen sink) won't run a sprinkler well and won't trigger my pressure washer.
So, I am puzzled as those numbers are apparently classed as High Pressure by tap makers.
The cold is mains fed and the hot comes from a cylinder which is filled from a cold tank in the loft. The cylinder is on the ground floor near the kitchen (so all water for upstairs is pumped - used to be a bungalow).
My instinct tells me that perhaps the gauge is wrong but any advice is welcome!