Shared poor water connection.

Deregos.

The water pressure to our house is a trickle at best, its an old house and along with the house next door, both houses used to be owned by one person, so there's only one feed that comes under the main road (national primary) that services both houses. It wasn't too bad for the last twenty odd years as the house next door was vacant, but that house has been sold and been done up. Now, because their house is closer to the mains than ours, our water pressure all but disappears whenever they're using their water. I've had plumbers check and there's no leaks, they recommended that I apply for my own new water connection and its looking like it'll cost me in the region of seven to eight grand to do this.

On the other side of the house is a farm field with cattle water troughs, someone suggested I could ask the farmers to make a new connection from the troughs straight to our house which I could do myself for a fraction of the cost, but I'm not sure if that would even be legal or acceptable to the farmer so I haven't asked him about it yet.

Does anyone have any experience or advice for this type of issue?

Sleeper12

Mains water should only feed the cold water in the kitchen and the water tank in the attic. If your water tank is filling then you have reasonable enough pressure. At least most of the time you will. The hot & cold for the rest of the house comes from the cold water tank in the attic. The height of the tank determines the water pressure. If the tank isn't filling fast enough then add another tank.

Deregos.

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The tank in the attic is extremely slow to fill, this is most frustrating when there's a few of us waiting to use the shower. It's even worse when the folk in the house next door are using their water. The rest of the indoor plumbing is fine.

Sleeper12

The cheapest option then is to get another one or two tanks installed in the attic. You shouldn't run out of water that way. It would be worth putting in a new ball cock in case the old one is going faulty and restricting the flow. You will get two tanks installed for a fraction of the price you were quoted for a dedicated supply. You can also get a mains booster pump. Salamander do one called Homeboost. It won't be a massive improvement but it will be an improvement

Car99

If it was costing me 8k I would rather spend it on installing a pressurised system and big 300 litre buffer tank or two 200 litre tanks if 300 litre isn't enough with just the kitchen sink and buffer tank fill line remaining at mains pressure and supply. Average 4 person household use in a day is 350 litres so 300 litre tank should more than suffice