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Originally Posted by getdul981
Is there a shut-off valve where the water line comes into the house or is the only cut-off at the street? If there is one inside the house, you may be able to open the valve about 3/4 instead of wide open.
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Thanks for the input Greg...but throttling back on the valve will not reduce the pressure into the house, just the flow rate when the water is turned on...think of what happens when you adjust the nozzle on your garden hose for less flow (closing the nozzle opening)...the water velocity increases out of the nozzle and you can create a powerful streaming water-jet. But when you close the nozzle, the pressure in the line once again becomes the same street pressure it was before, regardless of the position of the valve in your house, whether it's fully open or almost closed.
Another example: I worked with a fellow many years ago, sort of a technician type that was setting up a test using a high pressure bottle of nitrogen (3000 psi) - he was attempting to plumb the N2 into a test rig without using a regulator - we needed about 100 psi for test and he thought he could achieve this by piping directly into the system and just barely cracking the 3000 psi valve open on the bottle...the results would have been disastrous.
Hope this helps.
