lack of water flow

[davegt3]

hi we have just purchased a 1930's house and have a few issues regarding water pressure and flow. basically you can only use one tap or apliance ie. washing machine at a time if you use anything else there is almost no flow. same thing happens when you run both the hot and cold taps together. the propery has had a fairly recent combi boiler installed before we moved in could this have something to do with the poor flow? i suspected it may be a supply issue or maby the pipe from the meter to the house but the water board has been out and checked flow and the meter and the first tap after the stop valve. thay claim that we are recieving 4bar pressure and 14-16 ltrs a min flow which they say is more than enough so what it the problem? any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[nicro3]

I suppose using a certain business model then many medical professionals are unreasonable in charging a consultancy fee.

We are plumbers not medical professionals not doctors

 

[nicro3]

I would expect your property is supplied with iron pipework which has rusted and restricted the flow.

If I came to a customers house and identified a problem fairly quickly I would not charge for that but give them a quotation for the corrective work.

If the investigation was going to take some time I would advise them that I would make a modest charge, but if they accepted the quote for the repair work I would not charge for the initial visit.

My point but made better

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

these are not customers they are people asking for advice

yes thats right someone coming on the site asking for advice not expecting to find arms members arguing please moderate your posts and keep comments constructive,if you have a beef with each other here is not the place for it

 

[on31ll]

as above get a plumber round to investigate and look at having the water main replaced with MDPE the plumber should be able to identify the problems and will answer your questions. if the water main is lead then there is a free water main replacement scheme so this could save you some money. keep us informed of how it went. any more problems or questions just ask


and lads its not good for business i understand points from both sides and trust me for some people not charging works but i have had many people "offer" to pay me for my time knowing that there getting a quality service. there is no need to argue on here because if a future customer of nicro3's was to google his website then wonder onto here to see him argueing it doesnt look good for his business !