I'm thinking of moving in with my son, just for the showers. I never realized how wussy and anemic my shower was until I was visiting him this weekend and showered yesterday morning at his house. It was heaven.
Is all of your water supply anemic, or just the shower? If it's a universal problem, go down into the basement with someone who groks plumbing and look for the pressure regulator. Most of the time water comes into the house at a higher pressure and is then restricted before hitting the smaller pipes in your house; perhaps this restriction can be eased up a bit in your house. (But you don't want to just turn it off if you have small, old, or fragile pipes -- hence the person with plumbing clues.)
I live in an older apartment building, so I have no idea where all that pressure regulator stuff is (and don't have any access to it). Most of my other water pressure is OK, not crazy strong, but not too bad.
In the U.S., modern showerheads are federally regulated to be wimpy "to conserve water". If you're reasonably handy with pipe wrench and pliers, you can often remove the flow limiter in the showerhead — usually it's right at the washer.
I put on a showerhead shortly after I moved in -- it's one of those with the handheld shower. I was hoping that would help the pressure but it doesn't really seem to have done so. I'll have to check out the flow limiter thing.
Those were the first ones where I noticed the inclusion of flow limiters, actually — some 20 years ago. (It wasn't yet Federal law, but it was California law so they just shipped them with the limiters installed and provided instructions on how to remove it for non-CA residents.)
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How can I turbocharge my own shower?
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