Bidet_Mate
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*Edit I am now convinced the blockage is on the hot water side only, and I'm wondering what the best way to go about back flushing the hot water side of the system is?
So about a week ago we suddenly lost pressure from both the hot and cold lines in our house. This is for every faucet and fixture in the house. The kicker is the outside faucets on the front, side, and rear of the house are at a full 12gpm. Aerators are fine, and we even replaced a bathtub faucet -full mixing valve and all- with the same result (broke it investigating). From the pipe in the wall, the master shower is now getting 4 gpm and the guest bath 3 gpm (a lot less than we were getting). The hot and cold water pressure from the kitchen sink is about 2 gpm each with the aerators off, but the bathtub hot flow looks to be a lot less than the cold. The water heater seems to be getting full pressure but I will be doing some further testing tomorrow. What else could it be? What should I look for?
I should also mention that we have very hard water around here and every couple of months or so they do a backwash sending a bunch of crap and rust colored water down the lines. They haven't done this for a while though.
So about a week ago we suddenly lost pressure from both the hot and cold lines in our house. This is for every faucet and fixture in the house. The kicker is the outside faucets on the front, side, and rear of the house are at a full 12gpm. Aerators are fine, and we even replaced a bathtub faucet -full mixing valve and all- with the same result (broke it investigating). From the pipe in the wall, the master shower is now getting 4 gpm and the guest bath 3 gpm (a lot less than we were getting). The hot and cold water pressure from the kitchen sink is about 2 gpm each with the aerators off, but the bathtub hot flow looks to be a lot less than the cold. The water heater seems to be getting full pressure but I will be doing some further testing tomorrow. What else could it be? What should I look for?
I should also mention that we have very hard water around here and every couple of months or so they do a backwash sending a bunch of crap and rust colored water down the lines. They haven't done this for a while though.
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