Shower Time...

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Quick question, I just moved and my new shower is terrible. Now I'm going to soak it and see if I can get any sediment build up out, but here is the question...

I was at Home Depot yesterday looking at shower heads. Some of them said 50% increase in water pressure. How can a shower head change the water pressure? I thought the water pressure would be independent of the shower head (provided the shower head is clean).

Can anybody clear that up for me?

Thanks

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Your shower could be congested with lime, perhpas some clr will clear it up. Maybe you need to get a new shower head. we just installed one of those rain ones, very nice!

The pressuer can change by the restrictor thats inside the head, much like putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose.

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Every put your thumb over a hose pipe?

The water can be fired further - increase in presure. But you don't get something for nothing.. so what changes?... the diameter of the flow, some volume of water, longer spurt (length of the cylinder of water) so the diameter of that cylinder must decrease.

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maybe I'm crazy or its just to early in the morning but don't think the pressure changes, the velocity of the water increases

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maybe I'm crazy or its just to early in the morning but don't think the pressure changes, the velocity of the water increases

and you dont think those 2 are related?

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Wait'll they throw Volume into the equation...that's really going to confuse you.

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You can't increase the pressure coming into the showerhead. You restrict the line, thereby increasing the speed of the fluid through the opening. (It actually lowers the pressure.) The result is that you are flowing less but shooting it further. (The whole smaller streams of water thing.) Congress mandated that showerheads have to restrict the flow thereby saving water. It is easy to defeat most showerhead restrictions as they are at the inlet and all you have to do is drill the hole out a little bigger and then you get decent flow out of them.

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Every put your thumb over a hose pipe?

The water can be fired further - increase in presure. But you don't get something for nothing.. so what changes?... the diameter of the flow, some volume of water, longer spurt (length of the cylinder of water) so the diameter of that cylinder must decrease.

Gotta luv fisix.

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It is easy to defeat most showerhead restrictions as they are at the inlet and all you have to do is drill the hole out a little bigger and then you get decent flow out of them.

Exactly! This is always the first thing I do when I get a new shower head. If there's no plastic flow-control device in place that you can drill through, sometimes there is just a washer with a small hole in it that you can remove.

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