Water Pressure

[Paul & Deb]

By chance do these trailers, mine's a Reflection, come with built in water pressure regulators? I didn't read anything about one.

I ask because we were camping with hookups this week and I always use a pressure regulator on the campground spigot and our water pressure was pretty bad. It wasn't enough to even use the spray feature on the kitchen faucet. Last week we were dry camping and it seemed to me the pressure was noticeably better with the water pump. So I wondered if I'm reducing the shore water pressure too much, having mine if the trailer already has one?

Thanks for your input.

[huntr70]

Nope, nothing built in.

Just low water pressure...

[Cate&Rob]

Hi Poppy,

I have noticed the same thing at some campgrounds ! To the point where I took out my pressure regulator completely . . . but this didn't make much difference. I poked around behind the connection panel, but couldn't see anything that looked like a pressure regulator. My best guess is that this is severe restriction through the Kantleak valve for incoming city water.
Haven't gotten around to figuring out how I am going to solve this.

Rob

[Paul & Deb]

Okay, thanks to both of you.

[gordofuchs]

What about filling the fresh water tank and using the onboard pump ?

Gord Fuchs

[Canyonlight]

rafter--you did not state specifically but how are the BR faucet, BR shower and outside shower working using both hot and cold ? If they are fine and have not shown performance degradation as with the kitchen, this is perplexing. Did you remove all screens and head assembly from kitchen and try a water flow test both hot and cold ? If other faucets are all fine and if kitchen is still slow, on both hot and cold (or one or the other) could it be a line blockage in the kitchen zone but how from what and where ? Lastly, could it be a failure and/or blockage in the kitchen cold/hot handle(s) on/off water flow control assembly ?

Dan

[rafterdd]

Ok, the shower and stool seem to work ok. The bathroom and kitchen
faucets only dribble, hot or cold. We are in the process of trying to
see if there is any line blockage. We have had this trailer for 2
years now and it only started slowing down the last month. It appears
the line from the Kantleak is the same for both sink in bathroom and
kitchen. The bathroom sink is better than the kitchen, as the kitchen
hardly even dribbles now.
The faucet in the kitchen was replaced shortly after we bought it,
by the dealer. Is there anything that could be blocking it from
working like a check valve or something under the sink? I am
perplexed, it would seem water should flow through the water lines...
thanks for responding, let me know if you think of anything.

[Cate&Rob]

Hi Gord,

As Poppy notes . . . pressure is better with the on board pump . . . which doesn't go through the Kantleak valve . . . thus my theory. The problem with the OE pump is that it is a cheap piece of equipment that is very crudely mounted. Incredibly noisy when operating. There are better alternatives that have been discussed elsewhere on this forum.

Rob

[WhittleBurner]

Water pressure in campgrounds can very quite a bit. If you're at the beginning of the line you better have a regulator, if at the end it may only be a trickle. It even depends on when you are using it. If it's when a lot of other people are using it also the pressure will be low. The kantleak system has worked very well for us and we are quite happy with it.

[Canyonlight]

rafter--and the outside shower performance ?

One other thing, when we were hooked up to water last summer, we did have one of our water pressure regulators fail or seemed to be getting more restricted as over time the water flow seemed to be slowing. Changed to a different regulator and all was great.

Dan