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[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

As I feared, my newly installed indoor faucets will not let any of the water 
from my rainwater tanks through.  Does anyone know where to find faucets for 
very low pressure applications, or how to turn one of these stupid new 
faucets into a low pressure faucet?  
 
The tanks are behind my house and only provide 0-4 feet of head above the use 
point.  I may have to resort to a tank on the hill above my house designed to 
provide shower water, but that will only be about 10 feet higher.  I should 
have plumbed everything with bigger PEX pipe, but my sources of information 
were wrong.  Oh, the frustration!
 
Thanks,
 
Rain



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Consider using 3/4 inch molasses gate valves. They are also better at 
handling tramp in the lines.

An example with illustrations is at 
http://www.northstate.com/elecpipe/en-us/dept_116.html.

---- Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> As I feared, my newly installed indoor faucets will not let any of the 
> water from my rainwater tanks through.  Does anyone know where to find 
> faucets for very low pressure applications, or how to turn one of these 
> stupid new faucets into a low pressure faucet?  
> Â 
> The tanks are behind my house and only provide 0-4 feet of head above the 
> use point.  I may have to resort to a tank on the hill above my house 
> designed to provide shower water, but that will only be about 10 feet 
> higher.  I should have plumbed everything with bigger PEX pipe, but my 
> sources of information were wrong.  Oh, the frustration!
> Â 
> Thanks,
> Â 
> Rain
>