I have very high water pressure in the house. I have it reduced to 3 bar at the mains in point. Every tap (hot and cold) is at full mains pressure. These are fixed paramteres.
My shower head keeps exploding (blows its gasket) sending water across the bath room in to the light fittings. I am not changing the shower head (8 inch diameter pan) but want to drill out each hole to reduce pressure. I already have a reducer in the supply pipe reducing it from 15 mm to 3mm!
Question. To reduce the water back pressure in the shower head by 50% is it a matter of just increasing the area of each hole by 100% ie double the water outlets area?
I only want to drill this shower head once!
My shower head keeps exploding (blows its gasket) sending water across the bath room in to the light fittings. I am not changing the shower head (8 inch diameter pan) but want to drill out each hole to reduce pressure. I already have a reducer in the supply pipe reducing it from 15 mm to 3mm!
Question. To reduce the water back pressure in the shower head by 50% is it a matter of just increasing the area of each hole by 100% ie double the water outlets area?
I only want to drill this shower head once!