Best option to reduce high water pressure - plumber and PRVs vs. water company?

[Plumb Line]

Hi (again!)

Following on from this thread....

Under pressure dum d-d-dum dum... Options for high water pressure?

Hi all I've got a lot of plumbing work coming up in the house soon and had a plumber visit yesterday to quote. Whilst here he checked the water pressure and said it is one of the highest he has seen, at 8 bar. I've roughly calculated the flow rate before and it came out at 30L per minute...

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I hope you don't mind but I thought I'd start a new one as Dwr Cymru could turn up next week so really want to decide what's best and whether I need to cancel them.

Te recap: We've got high water pressure where we are (8bar). We've got a lot of plumbing work coming up and initially we were going to have PRVs installed. The house is split into two, so we'd need a couple of them. But then someone recommended that I contact the water company (Dwr Cymru) - which I did - and they have agreed to come out and reduce the pressure. I thought this would be best as it is free and would save on the cost of the x2 PRVs and associated plumbing work.

Since then, someone on another forum has recommended that I cancel Dwr Cymru and have a plumber do the work internally instead. He says it is much better to have control and to be able to adjust the pressure as and when necessary.

What do you guys think is the best option?

Thank you so much

 

[Chuck]

He says it is much better to have control and to be able to adjust the pressure as and when necessary.

Which should be 'never'.

 

[Plumb Line]

Which should be 'never'.

So based on that, do you think crack on with letting the water company put in the reducer?

Cheers

 

[Chuck]

So based on that, do you think crack on with letting the water company put in the reducer?

Cheers

That's what I'd do unless I could think of a good reason to do otherwise, which I can't right now.