Plumbing – How and can you increase the flow volume for a tub faucet?

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We recently built an addition onto our house of approximately a 1000 sq ft. The existing home had one or two prior additions to it since the main part was built in 1930 something. The plumbing is the regular yellowish piping but for everything we added we used the newer pex piping.

In the new bathroom we have a stand up shower and a separate big soaking tub. My problem is the flow or volume for the tub seems really low, like to the point that I gave up on the faucet and when my wife was ready to try out our new bathroom I pretty much filled the tub with a bucket line consisting of me and my four kiddos, haha…

Any helpful advice or something to try to increase the flow is very much appreciated.

Best Answer

You clearly have a problem. I am going to venture a guess that some debris got into the faucet on install. This can raise havoc with water delivery. Can you disconnect the supplies going to the tub faucet and check the pressure at that point?