Removing the flow restrictor valve on your shower head takes less than 60 seconds of work and can drastically improve the water pressure from your shower head.
All you need is a screw, a screwdriver and probably a pair of pliers. Typically it’ll be a small blue or other colored valve inside the shower head, and sometimes has a small aerator mesh or ring in front of it than can easily be pulled out. You can screw into the valve, pull it out with a pair of pliers, put the shower head back on and you’re done!
Side note, depending on your water pressure, this may seem very powerful at first! But if you have long or curly hair, this is wonderful for helping get more soap out of your hair more quickly. This also will use more water, but if you’re like me I end up taking shorter showers since it takes a shorter time to rinse off.
Doesn’t that increase the flow not the pressure? The more water comes out, the less forceful it’ll be = less pressure.
Put differently, if you block some of the streams, the others will have more pressure. If you add more holes, more water will come out but each stream will be weaker. Since you can’t control the water source, changing flow causes pressure to do the opposite.
My shower head doesn’t even have a flow restrictor, it’s just rated for a specific GPM, so when I want something different I just get one with a different rating.