When I’m watering plants, the water will just stop spraying, but when I shake the hose, the begins to spray again. Sometimes it’ll do it every few seconds, sometimes it won’t do it for a week. My arm is about to fall off!

I thought I needed a new hose, so I bought a spiral hose that has a higher psi, and that helped a little, but obviously it’s not the problem.

The water pressure in the house (sinks, showers, toilets) is fine, though.

What do I need to do, and how do I do it?
The pressure is fine when it does shoot out, so I don’t think it has anything to do with increasing the pressure, but the whole water pressure regulator may be old or faulty and needs replacing. Been googling answers, and this is what I’m getting, but just wanted to confirm.

I need to know what size DC pump I need to put in my system. It would need to supply 20-80 PSI to a tank-less water heater/shower using a 3/4" garden hose. The shower would be about 8′ above the rain water tank, also is there a solar/pump that works without a battery that would work? I am starting with two 35 gallon plastic drums to catch rain water in my system.

I tried to flush my well water system today. I poured a water and bleach combination into my well. I ran all my faucets for about 10 minutes until I smelled bleach then let the system sit for about 5 hours. I then ran all the faucets very slowly for about 1 hour. I was outside then noticed my garden hose wasn’t spitting water out. I went inside and the same was happening with my faucets. I immediately shut everything off thinking that I had drained my well. I have waited for almost 2 hours now and still nothing. The water pressure gage on the holding tank shows about 25 psi (normally it is right in that neighborhood) I have noticed the pump circuit is making a buzzing noise for 2 seconds then shutting off. Did I screw something up or should I wait to see until the morning?
it is a submersable pump. The buzzing noise I am hearing is coming from the circuit in my basement.

I am having a new hydro seed lawn put in next week and I plan on running 3 sprinklers to keep the entire area watered and moist. My problem is, I have a well and I do not have enough water pressure to run more than one sprinkler at a time. I do have a timer with four zones so I can run each sprinkler one after the other, but with three sessions a day that will take forever. Is there any way I can put a booster at the spigot to run at least two at a time? Possibly even all three at once? I figure if I can run a pressure washer with no problem, I should be able to supply that kind of PSI to three sprinklers. Thanks!

I am a screenprinter, and I bought a a pressure washer (1750 PSI Campbell Hausfeld) to clean my screens in the bathtub. However, there is no garden hose faucet in my 3rd floor rental apartment. Is it safe to hook up the washer to my residential supply, AKA my shower? I have an adapter that connects a garden hose to a shower fixture, but I’m not sure if this would mess up my water heater or what. I don’t need the water to be hot.
Hey, thanks for the answers so far! Ok, so I measured my GPM, which was 3 gallons/minute. I also noticed that there was some sputtering, i.e. very brief dips in flow rate, every couple seconds, but this was barely noticeable.

I tried connecting the electric power washer to the shower through a 15 ft. garden hose. Every time I pull the trigger the lights in my house dim significantly (Its a 1600 W machine), and a very powerful spray comes out, but in a big cloud instead of a fan or jet. The shape of the cloud is not dependent on how I adjust the nozzle.

After about 10 seconds of continuous spraying, the power washer really seemed to be struggling, and the RPMs on the motor started getting fearful, and so I shut the thing off quickly and hid – Help!

I don’t know if its a problem with the flow rate, or with the electricity in my house. I didn’t think this thing would be such a crazy beast to operate.
by the way, my shower puts out 3 GPM versus the power washer’s required 1.3 GPM.

I am looking for a way to pressurize water from a pond or a pool. I would like it to have similar pressure as my garden hose water pressure. The pressure gauge on my home water tank is 60 PSI, but I would accept more or slightly less. I would even like the water outlet connector to accept a common garden hose. Is there a complete system like this that has a hose I can drop in a pool or pond and get Garden hose water pressure out the other side or do I have to build it all myself? If so can you suggest a the pump and tank I could use. Do I even need a tank? Could I just turn the pump on when I want to use it? What kind of pressure comes out of 1 horsepower pump when it is on? or 2 hp? is there some kind of scale of horsepower vs pressure for common electric water pumps? Finally, I would like to keep the complete system price to under a few hundred dollars.

Im making a pvc pipe mist project. Its a pipe with extreemly small holes drilled in, connected to a garden hose. The psi comming out from the garden hose spout is probably not enough to create a mist. how much psi is required to create a medium-to-heavy mist? I ask for the sake of knowing what psi pump i need to purchace to meet the needs of the mist. Thanks everyone!

I have a natural spring in my back yard, only about 20 feet from my house. It does not have a great deal of water pressure but I was thinking maybe I could get some of my electric from it by building a hydro electric turbine. Although I have not tested for psi or any other measurements like GPM, the spring itself used to be the water tower for the town back in the 1900’s. So it does have a pretty consistent flow, right now theres nothing but a copper pipe spouting the water up , thats all thats left over, its has a constant flow of a garden hose.

Can you suggest anything thats not too costly to "test" try it ?

ok so im trying to water a 200′ by 250′ garden and the sprinkler im gonna use needs at least 100 psi. how do i get that much pressure from a normal house hose? or if this is even possible?

I HAVE A WATER PRESSURE OF 95 PSI.
WHEN I WATER MY LAWN WITH A GARDEN HOSE TH E PRESSURE IS FULL (95psi) BUT AS SOON THAT WE OPEN ANY OTHER FAUCET INSIDE THE HOUSE, THE WATER PRESSURE DROPS VERY LOW.
CAN YOU HELP? PLEASE……….. MARIO