Low water pressure is a symptom. We find the cause.

The first question splits the problem in half: is it one fixture, or the whole house? One weak shower with everything else normal is a fixture problem - an aerator or showerhead packed with scale, a worn cartridge, an angle stop somebody only opened halfway. Weak pressure at every tap is a house problem, and the list of causes is short, specific and worth checking in a particular order. Most plumbers will quote you a fix. We would rather measure first, because the two problems are not remotely the same price.

Central Ohio water is what makes this a recurring local complaint rather than a rare one. Del-Co runs about seven to eight grains per gallon through Powell and Lewis Center, Columbus water serving Dublin, Worthington and Hilliard runs roughly seven to nine and varies with which reservoir is feeding the system, and Westerville softens its own supply to about seven. Twenty-five years of that leaves scale in aerators, showerheads and cartridges. In pre-1970 houses with galvanized steel it does something worse: the corrosion narrows the pipe from the inside until the bore is a fraction of what it was, which is the classic Colonial Hills and older Delaware low-pressure story.

The other half of this page is the problem nobody calls about. Pressure that is too high - anything much above 80 psi - shortens the life of every fixture, appliance and water heater in the house, voids a fair number of manufacturer warranties, and is the reason a supply line lets go at 3am. It costs nothing to measure and most homeowners never have. If we are in your house for something else, ask us to put a gauge on the hose bib.