How to Increase Hose Water Pressure

Watering that far away hanging basket in the garden can be impossible if you haven't enough water pressure to your hose. To fix it, we have to determine why there is no pressure. If the water pressure in your hose just dropped today, you have several things to troubleshoot to find out why. Is the water on somewhere else? Did the clothes washer or the dishwasher start just now? Is someone taking a shower? If none of these is happening, you must check for a leak. If your water pressure is always low in your house, you can increase it easily.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

If Pressure Isn't the Result of a Leak

1. Attach the cut off valve to the end of the hose where the water comes out. Make sure it is turned to the "off" position.

2. Attach the nozzle to the cut off valve.

3. Turn on the water at the hose bib.

4. Turn on the cut off valve.

5. By forcing water out of a smaller hole, it will reach much further and you will have more pressure.

A Leak is the Source

6. First check your toilet to see if it is running, then check your sink faucets to see if there is a leak there.

7. Find your water meter. That's where the meter reader looks every month to tell how much water you have used so your bill can be calculated. It is probably close to the street in a straight line from your main water cut off valve.

8. If you have a well, your water pressure can be increased only by changing your pump strength.

9. If you have no leaks in the house, you can increase your water pressure with a couple simple attachments.

Tips & Warnings

• Buy the cut off valve to keep yourself dry when you turn the water on at the hose bib. If you don't have it or if you have not turned it off before you turn on the water at the hose bib, your hose will start whipping itself around spraying water all over you, the neighbors' clean windows and in your car because you left the windows open. So make sure the cut off valve is turned to the off position.
• It's doubtful that the water pressure will be damaging to anybody or thing, but act as if it could be and keep the cut off valve off until you need the water.