Low pressure shower head

[McSteamyorMcdreamy]

Wasn't sure where to put this!

Water pressure in my property (1st floor flat) is atrocious (think showering in the rain would be more effective) and and because of electrics we cant have a power shower.

Can anyone recommend a tried and tested shower head to boost our pressure?

You Google low pressure shower heads and all you get back is high pressure shower heads, when potentially it was relatively ok in the first place! Links please if possible 😊

Is your stopcock fully open?

If you are lucky @Pigletjohn will pop on and tell you about how to work out your water pressure and give you some advice about how to fix it.

@Geneticsbunny thankyou for the tag.

Unfortunately I don't think it's just an issue with just us. Our neighbours above us said it can take nearly an hour just to run a bath so I think it's more of a block of flats/gravity issue than anything 🤣

How old is the block you live in? How high? And how far above ground level is your flat?

Who owns the freehold?

Have you got a water meter?

What colour is your hot-water cylinder?

Measure the flow (this is not the same as pressure) by filling a bucket, timing it, and calculating litres per minute.

Do this as your kitchen cold tap and hot tap

And at your bath hot and cold tap

One at a time.

You would do well to avoid flashy modern tap and mixer designs and look for traditional shape taps from UK manufacturers.

If you post pics of your existing taps, and the pipework under your sink and in your airing cupboard if you have one, I might notice something.