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Originally Posted by CarlLester
Question for those of you with more expertise in plumbing and/or water related issues than me (ie. everyone).
We've got an issue in our house where the water pressure is reduced to a trickle if anything else requiring water is on. Filling up the sink to do dishes, if someone flushes a toilet in the house, kitchen tap reduces to a trickle. Flush the toilet, jump in the shower, not enough water pressure to fill the toilet tank. That sort of thing.
House is about 10 years old. No obvious leaks anywhere. My wife says it has only been an issue in the winter (I haven't paid close enough attention to confirm or deny). Not sure what to do next or who to call....a plumber? the city utility?
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Did you make any changes to your plumbing? If its not something being frozen/broken or otherwise reducing service to your house, I'd imagine it has always been that way and you're just noticing now.
You'll get pressure drops when using other fixtures when the plumbing was done in series instead of each fixture coming off of a central well supplied manifold. (ie if you have one 1/2" pipe that runs upstairs and serves a couple washrooms and the laundry, you'll have severe loss of pressure since the 1/2" cant keep up to demand. now if you had three 1/2" lines running upstairs, all fed from one larger source, it can keep up with more usage before you get to noticable loss in pressure at each fixture.