How to fix low water pressure in your house / Booster Pump Install 

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Thanks for watching! This boosts both cold and hot water. The hot does take an extra second it seems like to pressurize but it is barely noticeable.

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Thanks for watching. In your case since most boosters will double pressure you will want to add a pressure regulator as well because if you double your current pressure you will probably blow out fittings in your lines because it will be too high. The regulator will allow you to adjust it back down but still be higher than your current pressure.

60 psi isn't good enough for you? You know if you need more pressure washing your car down there's a thing called a pressure washer.

@@stoneyswolf can you show me where I said I had problems washing my car?

@@b.vo. If you don't understand when someone is making a point when addressing you that would explain why you can't understand why 60psi is good water pressure. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

@@stoneyswolf if you don't understand that there is an infinite number of reasons that you have no possible way of knowing then I can't help you. You know what they say about assuming.

Thanks for watching. I can add a comment in the description. I just took for granted all systems have expansion tanks. Maybe some areas do not? I know here it is code to already have one in your system. They are usually always mounted near your hot water tank and not at the beginning of the system like the booster pump.

No expansion tanks where I am at. Never seen a house around here with one, although I’m sure they are out there. Just built a new house, no tank on that either.

@@BrianWingard ah, okay, yes, I do have a small expansion tank by my hot water heater (after the heater). Is there a way to limit the boost on this pump? My current pressure is around 43 just inside the meter. I don't want this to boost another 40 so I end up over 80 psi.

Thanks for watching. It will definitely help. The house I did this in took forever for the bathtub or toilet to fill up and this doubles the amount of water flow. You do need to check to see what size pipe is coming into your house. 3/4 inch would be a good size and also what your pressure is. Some pumps you have to be within a range so it does not over pressure the line.

I would install a Prv !!!! Or swap it if u have one and adjust it to your desired pressure

Thanks for watching! I actually do have an expansion tank on this system. It is in the other room near the water tank. I do not have any water hammer arrestors . I did the flex line instead. Best of luck if you decide to switch over! It is a fairly straight forward project.

Thank you for watching. A tank is still required in the system. It is farther down the line which you can not see in this video. I just assumed since most all plumbing has the tanks I did not need to mention it in the video.

Thanks for watching! Great point I was not even thinking about the joints. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for watching. Do you have a 3/4 mainline coming into the house? If you do I feel it will pressurize it to double based on how mine is working. It just takes a few seconds for the pump to work and since that is a little longer distance it may take a few seconds extra to get the pressure.

Thanks for watching. That is a great question and I need to look into that. I would imagine there would be a fail safe but if there was not I would imagine it could burn up the pump if ran for too long with no pressure.

​@@BrianWingard yes that black pump switch on the top is designed to stop working when there is no water. There is a failure lamp on it which tells you that the water supply has been cut off

Thanks for watching. It is installed before the pump. It prevents water from draining out of the pump so it is always primed. Also it prevents the pump from overheating since there will always be water in the pump.

You will still have to shut the water off though. The bipass only stops water from going backwards. You will still have full pressure going through the bipass. The bipass valve is one direction only going forward and prevents water from coming backwards.

Thanks for watching Steve, Unfortunately I do not have any experience with wells. Maybe another viewer will see your question and be able to answer.

Thanks for watching. There is already a pressure tank in the system before I added this pump . I just showed the booster pump only.

Thanks for stopping back! After a year of use it is still working great! I have it in one of my rentals and pressure has been great still. I would definitely buy this brand again.

Thanks for watching. Usually you do not want to exceed 80 max pressure total so you do not have issues with any fittings. You can actually add on a pressure reducing valve if your pump adds too much pressure. For those you simply find a reducing valve in the range of pressure you want and you can turn the nut on top to increase or reduce pressure. I would add this after the outlet so you can measure your pressure at a faucet or hose and adjust accordingly.

Thanks for watching. You would be putting this previous to any plumbing in the house that way the pump can pressurize the waters psi before it enters any faucets or water heater. Also if you do this after the water heater you will only be pressurizing the hot water and not the cold.

@@BrianWingard Thanks. Trying to figure out where I can do this lol.

Do you think I can hook up the pump at my Washing machine? This is like the only place I have room, electricity to hook up the pump...

Thanks for watching. Still going great!

Thanks for watching. I have mine before my water heater as well. Did you check to make sure there was no leaks anywhere even outside? In order for it to keep running water has to be discharging somewhere.

Thanks for watching. So far so good. I still need to make my update video on it. Just been busy working all the time.

@@BrianWingard good to hear. I have city water about 45-50 psi. Looking for 60ish

@@MikeHaddadLawnAddictions I need to double check the directions on this when I get a chance. I know there is a maximum pressure that they recommend you do not start with. Let me see if I can find something. Mine was super low so it was within range. Just do not want to see you blow out your lines if it doubles it even though they can handle 100psi usually.

​@@MikeHaddadLawnAddictions same here... About 43psi from the city, and upstairs down to 35 due to the height difference. Been trying to figure out if a booster would make sense for me, but worried about the longevity.

Thanks for watching. You do not need a reservoir tank for this. The pump does all of the work for you. The only thing you will notice is when you first turn it on you may have 1-2 seconds of low pressure before it fully ramps up to full pressure. The pressure for mine was insanely different in a good way after this.

boosting water directly from water mains is not legal in some countries.

Thanks for watching. For myself I actually prefer it to copper because I can do one continous run to the faucet or connection and do not have to worry about joints in the wall ever leaking or breaking. I use PEX A and have many rentals. If they ever take off and leave in the winter pex A can freeze without breaking. I know it is cheaper but the advantages above are the main reason I use it.

Thanks for watching! That is pretty low! I know they have some that boost even more pressure. Do you have 3/4 or 1/2 pipe coming into your home? May want to check to see if you have a pressure reducer in the line.

​@@BrianWingard it's galvanized steel pipe not sure the inner diameter. I would guess it is 1/2 inch judging by virtually all of the exterior hose connections that are embedded in the slab foundation. All of the sink connections too.. but some are bigger so hopefully the one from the street is 3/4 and all the house internal ones are the smaller so I can redo those one day lol. Just bought the house about 7 days ago was checking the street valve today to make sure it was fully on. I am scared to do what you did, cuz I don't want to deal with a pipe bursting in the wall.. going to run some 3/4 inch or maybe even 1 inch pex to one sink from the inlet in the water heater room and then do the pressure pump there and just do 1 thing at a time with the good pressure and slowly replace it all.

​@@gg-gn3reyikes did you try turning on the faucets before buying? 😅 I didn't, and sorta regret it.

@@emissarygw2264 yea they're fine.. sad cuz it wasn't enough, should have turned on the whole house lmao. Faucet trick + flushing toilet doesn't work I guess, always thought it did.