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Title: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: paul mather on January 14, 2012, 05:43:21 pm

Noticed my RO machine has all of a sudden started producing  less water. Is it possible that my water company have dropped the pressure in my area due to the cold weather. Has anybody else experienced this?

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: Pj on January 14, 2012, 05:49:21 pm

They do if they have lots of leaks or high risk of leaks.  By Regs they only have to supply minimum 1bar

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: andrewlefkas on January 14, 2012, 06:08:14 pm

i noticed same thing -warm weather lots of water  ;D  Im on 25l containers and Monday they were filling in well under an hour ,today and hour and 15 mins for one so quite a difference .
Dunno what the water companies do but there has to be some reason why ?? :-\

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: colley614 on January 14, 2012, 06:12:20 pm

I've noticed this with my shower. For some reason in the winter there is less pressure and the shower goes onto overheat a lot easier. In the summer I can put it two setting higher. I would have thought with the water coming into the shower colder in the winter that I could have the setting higher not lower before it overheated.

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: Handyman Window Cleaning Services on January 14, 2012, 06:52:39 pm

i always find that in cold weather i need to turn up my pump controller, i find the water comes out slower in the winter than summer.

could be a scientific thing

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: colley614 on January 14, 2012, 07:58:35 pm

Yeah maybe water is more dense in cold weather? or maybe I'm just dense  ???

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: dazmond on January 14, 2012, 11:29:14 pm

viscosity is different in colder weather thus the reason why we have to turn up our controllers!also the hose doesnt expand as much due to colder stiffer hoses.

water becomes thicker when very cold.

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: AS Window Cleaning on January 15, 2012, 03:16:55 am

Quote from: dazmond on January 14, 2012, 11:29:14 pm

viscosity is different in colder weather thus the reason why we have to turn up our controllers!also the hose doesnt expand as much due to colder stiffer hoses.

water becomes thicker when very cold.

yup. what 'e sez! doubt they would go around all the estates/areas changing pressure switches. just moves slower when gets colder. stops altogether when it gets too cold!  ;D ;)

Title: Re: Do water companies drop pressure in cold weather
Post by: bobplum on January 15, 2012, 10:46:44 am

Quote from: dazmond on January 14, 2012, 11:29:14 pm

viscosity is different in colder weather thus the reason why we have to turn up our controllers!also the hose doesnt expand as much due to colder stiffer hoses.

water becomes thicker when very cold.

bump(still not sure what that means)......     so yes that is correct ;D