What Are The Dangers Of High Water Pressure In My Home?

"When the city starts building around or they start raising pressure up, they don't care about your home's water pressures. That's what I say. It's the home owner's responsibility to maintain it."

- Bobby Crowder, Plumbing Expert

 

The question today - "What Are The Dangers Of High Water Pressure In My Home?" 

Check out this episode of The Plumber Podcast to find out more...

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
We've all heard about the dangers of high blood pressure.
But do you know the dangers of high water pressure in your home?
So,
questions come into the checkup Pro Radio studios.
Is it dangerous to have high water pressure coming into my home?
And I've asked plumbing expert Bobby Crowder,
the family plumber to join me here on the program,

(00:22):
Bobby,
how are you?
Hey,
Joe.
Thanks for having me on again.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for being here.
So,
you know,
we've heard about high blood pressure,
right?
It's called the Silent Killer.
Um If we have high blood pressure as humans,
we may not even know we have high blood pressure,
but we could like burst a pipe,
we could have a stroke,
we could have a heart attack.
But really the same thing is true,

(00:44):
isn't it?
For the water pressure coming into the home of low water pressure is one issue,
but high water pressure is another issue.
So what are the concerns?
So you're,
you're exactly right.
I,
I,
I look at it as the human body of a home because you know,
the water lines are your,
your blood and your veins and of course the sewer lines or,
or your intestines and,

(01:04):
and stuff like that.
So everything has to be clean,
everything has to be up and pressures gotta be,
you know,
proper.
So when you have high water pressure,
you're going to,
you can do a lot of damage to all your appliances,
your copper pecks or tubing in your home,
all that can split due to the high water pressure,
especially like water heater can start to leak,

(01:26):
uh,
drippy faucets,
uh,
diaphragms in the,
in the fill valves of the toilets,
that high water pressure is just as dangerous,
just like your high blood pressure in your body.
So,
we have to maintain that in order to maintain that.
We had to put a pressure regulating valve on the main,
coming into the home because it's our responsibility as a homeowner to maintain our water pressure.

(01:47):
It's not the cities.
I mean,
especially out here in Arizona,
it's,
it's,
I don't know about any other states,
but I think it's the same way any other state,
but you've got to maintain your own water pressure coming into your home.
It's not the city's responsibility.
Correct me if I'm wrong because I may be because I'm not from Arizona,
but most homes don't have something to regulate the pressure.

(02:12):
Do they?
They don't,
yeah,
like out here they don't do it as well.
It's not,
it's not an,
it's not a mandatory thing.
They just,
you know,
pipe it right.
Into the home,
you know,
ball valve hose bib right into the house.
So,
and then when the city starts building around or they start raising pressure up,
it's,
they don't care about your home's water pressures.
That's what I say.
It's the homer's responsibility to maintain it.

(02:33):
So,
you wanna be,
um,
the thing is,
is I like to see the water pressure around 60 you know,
65 I mean,
nothing more than 80 and above,
you know,
even 75 above,
I kind of like to stay below that.
But,
uh,
if you can keep that,
like your sprinkler lines and your drip system will also start viewing and,
and breaking pipes because it's just too high.

(02:56):
So everything has to be maintained and,
and unfortunately,
it's the homeowner's responsibility to do that and us plumbers can come out and,
and regulate that for you.
So I'm sure a lot of you who are watching this right now are like me,
what didn't even know about this?
Ok.
And so what you need to do is call Bobby Crowder,
the family plumber and he will come out and he will actually measure the pressure much like the doctor will,

(03:24):
right,
the blood pressure,
the water pressure.
And then,
um,
even if it's like,
perfect Bobby's probably gonna recommend putting on a piece of apparatus is going to keep that pressure regulated.
Correct.
Correct.
Because you,
you never know if it's gonna,
it,
sometimes it rises up at night,
you know,
when everything,
everything's not being used in the neighborhood or in the city,

(03:46):
pressures can regulate and come up a little bit higher.
So we have this gauge that we put on people's,
uh,
hose bibs and has a little red,
uh,
free floating handle.
So when the pressure gets up higher than that,
that red handle stays and believe it or not,
I've had people come to me and say,
hey,
how come my pressure is at 100 and 10?
But you were out here and we measured it was like 75.

(04:09):
Well,
ok,
now you see that the pressure ro rose at night when no one was using anything and it just climbed.
So it's best to put Apr V on there this way,
it doesn't matter at night or any time during the day that's gonna regulate your house and not cause any issues.
Yeah,
it's really important to get a hold of Bobby Crowder,
the family plumber just simply go to the description of this podcast.

(04:30):
All of Bobby's information is located there.
It's easy to reach him.
Bobby.
Thank you so much,
my friend.
I appreciate it.
Thanks Joe.
Appreciate you.