My kichten faucet has lost some water pressure when I’m trying to run hot water. Its been getting worse the past few weeks and now the stream coming out when on hot water setting is pretty slow.
I still have normal pressure when running cold water and normal pressure in the bathroom faucets on both hot and cold so the problem seems to be isolated to the kitchen faucet on the hot setting.
Any ideas here? Could there be sedminent or debris in this one specific line that’s inhibiting flow?
Thanks
Maybe it’s the faucet. Worn out.
Turn off the waterunder sink, disconnect hot, and turn it on into a bucket. If you have good flow it’s probably cartridge in faucet. If you don’t then maybe deposits or broken gasket in supply line so you can disconnect that and repeat test into bucket.
Maybe the line is kinked between the shutoff valve and the faucet.
I bet there is a sediment screen somewhere in the hot water piping for the faucet.
Turn off the waterunder sink, disconnect hot, and turn it on into a bucket. If you have good flow it’s probably cartridge in faucet. If you don’t then maybe deposits or broken gasket in supply line so you can disconnect that and repeat test into bucket.
If you turn on the cold side while doing this it might back flush the hot side out under the sink.
If that doesn’t take care of the issue look at the shut off valve. I’ve found a few that the rubber washer have come apart and clogged things up.
Just be careful when shutting those valves off, depending how old they are. Lot of times they’ll leak at the valve
What everyone else said. But my money is on the cartridge getting plugged with calcification, etc. They can be cleaned or replaced pretty cheaply, your area hardware store or big box store would have a replacement unless it’s a really old sink.
Just be careful when shutting those valves off, depending how old they are. Lot of times they’ll leak at the valve
Dealing with this right now. We just had a softener installed and shut the water off to the whole house. Now the valve at our meter is seeping. That’s not something I am going to tackle by myself.
I think I will look into the cartridge first. Thanks for the suggestions fellas.
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Just be careful when shutting those valves off, depending how old they are. Lot of times they’ll leak at the valve
Dealing with this right now. We just had a softener installed and shut the water off to the whole house. Now the valve at our meter is seeping. That’s not something I am going to tackle by myself.
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Most likely a packing nut leaking on that valve. Simple to fix. Just back the nut off a 1/4 turn then tighten it up. Just about any valve I ever touch I tighten the packing nuts at the end. Shut offs under sinks to.
Mike W. is spot on for you Matt, I can be a really simple fix. Even repacking them is easy.
Since we’re talking valves, it’s a good practice to work every valve in your house once a year.
Mike W. is spot on for you Matt, I can be a really simple fix. Even repacking them is easy.
Since we’re talking valves, it’s a good practice to work every valve in your house once a year.
Thanks guys. I wondered if I could just back that nut off and retighten. I can try the one above the meter but the one below I have to have the city shut the water off. I gotta look into that.
Since we’re talking valves, it’s a good practice to work every valve in your house once a year.
It’s too late for that! I’m not touching anything unless I have to because there will be something wrong with it 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>B-man wrote:</div>
Mike W. is spot on for you Matt, I can be a really simple fix. Even repacking them is easy.Since we’re talking valves, it’s a good practice to work every valve in your house once a year.
Thanks guys. I wondered if I could just back that nut off and retighten. I can try the one above the meter but the one below I have to have the city shut the water off. I gotta look into that.
I tighten up the ones before the meter to. 1/4 turn of the packing nut is typically good.
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