Here's a riddle for any plumbers or people knowledgable in the movement of water within a home.
I live in a normal neighborhood using a municipal water supply. (not Indianapolis)
While I don't have figures, I would say our water pressure is very good, we have no real complaints under normal use. We can all wash our faces, take a shower, water the lawn, wash dishes and otherwise run water (hot or cold) on multiple floors of the house and nobody has issues...EXCEPT for this scenario, which is insane in my non-plumbing mind!
In the event someone flushes a toilet, the hot water - at any location in the house, not necessarily the room one has flushed in - slows to a weak stream. Upstairs flush, kitchen sink hot water almost vanishes. Downstairs flush, the water coming from the shower heads upstairs are immediately sourced from the Bering Sea...ice cold.
I understand finite water pressure leading to less pressure at individual faucets/spigots, but what in the holy hell would cause HOT WATER to be limited by a toilet being flushed? I have heard of and experienced the opposite happening...nearly being scalded by a toilet flush, but what the actual frig with an ice bath upon flushing?
Last clue: we never had any issues with plumbing in the house until about two years ago when we bought our first agitator-less clothes washer. I know that sounds stupid, because all they did was remove the old one and hook up the new one, but that is the only other plumbing-connected thing we have modified/replaced in the time span this issue surfaced.
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
I live in a normal neighborhood using a municipal water supply. (not Indianapolis)
While I don't have figures, I would say our water pressure is very good, we have no real complaints under normal use. We can all wash our faces, take a shower, water the lawn, wash dishes and otherwise run water (hot or cold) on multiple floors of the house and nobody has issues...EXCEPT for this scenario, which is insane in my non-plumbing mind!
In the event someone flushes a toilet, the hot water - at any location in the house, not necessarily the room one has flushed in - slows to a weak stream. Upstairs flush, kitchen sink hot water almost vanishes. Downstairs flush, the water coming from the shower heads upstairs are immediately sourced from the Bering Sea...ice cold.
I understand finite water pressure leading to less pressure at individual faucets/spigots, but what in the holy hell would cause HOT WATER to be limited by a toilet being flushed? I have heard of and experienced the opposite happening...nearly being scalded by a toilet flush, but what the actual frig with an ice bath upon flushing?
Last clue: we never had any issues with plumbing in the house until about two years ago when we bought our first agitator-less clothes washer. I know that sounds stupid, because all they did was remove the old one and hook up the new one, but that is the only other plumbing-connected thing we have modified/replaced in the time span this issue surfaced.
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
Water follows the path of least resistance right? So it's easier for the water to fill the toilet tank than to replace the hot water leaving the water heater. Try turning the toilet fill valve down a bit for a slower fill rate.
