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Water Pressure & Quality
What Sometimes Causes Water Pressure to Spike Excessively?
Pressure rising well above the normal limit can sometimes come from the public network itself, or from a misconfigured pressure regulator (if one is installed) in the building. Consistently very high pressure stresses the fittings and pipes and increases the likelihood of new leaks appearing, especially at older or weaker connections in the network.