amor
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The showerhead and the kitchen faucet recently and slowly started having problems with water flow. It went gradually till a point where there was just a trickle of water flowing through. In both of these places, after removing the showerhead and the faucet i found some white stuff clogging the flow.
I tested whether it was a mineral with vinegar and the result was no. It feels kind of hard, it is not brittle, and it looks like some plastic material (not sure). It does not have the consistency of those white tapes used in plumbing (it is way harder). To me it resembles the waste I'd get when drilling a white PVC pipe (not sure what to call those scrap material left when drilling a hole in PVC).
The issue is that there has not been any recent intervention in the pipes in my house.. no plumbing work for the past few years...
To eliminate other possibilities (i heard about problems in the water heater dip tube) i flushed out the heater (the water came out brown for maybe 10-15 seconds, but turned clear soon after).
I am attaching a pic. Does anyone have a guess of what is it? And how it could have ended in two places (kitchen faucet and showerhead)?
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