Bob from accounting
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I installed water hammer arrestors on my kitchen sink's stops valves to dampen the water hammering. Well it worked, easy install all good.
For three days I had no issues using the kitchen sink and the water pressure was 60 PSI.
On the fourth day the water pressure out of no where went down to 10 PSI.
I replaced the faucet's aerator, no luck. I removed valve cartridge to see if it was blocked up.
I took some photos of the valve cartridge to see if anything jumps out to anyone as it looked pretty good, but take a look.
The low water pressure is on both the cold and hot water. This faucet has a pull down spray, low water pressure in either spray position.
This is localized to only this faucet.
The cold water stop riser has a 1/4" adapter that connect to a water filter.
The water filter is faucet is getting full pressure. This makes be think the pressure coming into the faucet is fine.
Everything in the house is running at full pressure, the 3 year old faucet is the only thing that is problematic.
I don't think it has anything to do with the hammer arrestors? Seems like this has to be the Faucet but I need some suggestions how to further trouble shoot this.
I suppose it could be the cartridge but I am not sure what to look for after pulling it out. I anticipated seeing lime scale or something and it was clean.
Thanks for you help and suggestions. See pictures provided.
For three days I had no issues using the kitchen sink and the water pressure was 60 PSI.
On the fourth day the water pressure out of no where went down to 10 PSI.
I replaced the faucet's aerator, no luck. I removed valve cartridge to see if it was blocked up.
I took some photos of the valve cartridge to see if anything jumps out to anyone as it looked pretty good, but take a look.
The low water pressure is on both the cold and hot water. This faucet has a pull down spray, low water pressure in either spray position.
This is localized to only this faucet.
The cold water stop riser has a 1/4" adapter that connect to a water filter.
The water filter is faucet is getting full pressure. This makes be think the pressure coming into the faucet is fine.
Everything in the house is running at full pressure, the 3 year old faucet is the only thing that is problematic.
I don't think it has anything to do with the hammer arrestors? Seems like this has to be the Faucet but I need some suggestions how to further trouble shoot this.
I suppose it could be the cartridge but I am not sure what to look for after pulling it out. I anticipated seeing lime scale or something and it was clean.
Thanks for you help and suggestions. See pictures provided.
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