Supply lines, valves and leaks

Low water pressure repair

Feeble showers and slow tubs traced to clogged aerators, failing pressure regulators, half-closed valves or narrow old service pipes, then corrected.

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Weak flow can affect a single tap or every outlet at once. The cause dictates the fix.

One fixture

Aerators and showerheads clog with mineral scale from our moderately hard lake water, and a worn cartridge inside a single-handle faucet can choke flow to one fixture.
We unscrew, soak, brush and test each piece, and replace cartridges that are scored or swollen.

With the whole house weak, step one is making sure the main valve is wide open, because a gate valve with a broken wedge can look open while blocking half the pipe.
Then we put a gauge on a hose bib to read static pressure and inspect any pressure reducing valve fitted downstream of the meter.

Galvanized steel narrows from the inside as rust builds up, and many older Toronto houses still run on a half-inch service from the street.
When the pipe itself is the restriction, replacing the worst runs or the service line is the only change that brings real flow back.

A pressure gauge on the hose bib gives a reading in seconds.