abilene7
07-31-2007, 07:10 AM
We seem to have a couple things going wrong with our water lately. One was the fact that our hot water started lasting less than ten minutes. Our house is three years old, and we just sort of gradually started losing hot water time in the shower and while doing dishes over the past few months.
The other problem is that my upstairs bathroom seems to have no pressure in two of the three faucets. (this also just gradually started over a period of months but was fine before that) We have a jacuzzi-style big tub which only has maybe 25% pressure and then two sinks in the vanity. The sink we use most is at maybe 50% pressure or less, and the one we hardly use is totally fine which stumps us. Oh, and there's also a shower above the tub (which we've never used and is missing a showerhead) but the same reduced trickle comes out of that pipe if we turn the shower on.
After reading posts at this site yesterday we drained and flushed the hot water heater. This SEEMS to have improved the length of our hot water in the shower and kitchen (on the ground floor) but it's only been a day so we'll see. However the two troublesome faucets upstairs are now at little more than a trickle! The good sink is still fine (after some sputtering while the water came back up there). Why would the flushing/draining we did make things worse but only upstairs and not even all three of them??
Plumbing is not our area I'll admit. Does anyone know what is going on with my upstairs faucets? Both are wand-style where you turn it side to side, and both the hot and cold are majorly reduced in pressure. Do we simply need to replace these?? Shouldn't we have full pressure to the shower if it was just the other two fixtures at fault? PLEASE HELP!! I want to take a bubble bath! lol
The other problem is that my upstairs bathroom seems to have no pressure in two of the three faucets. (this also just gradually started over a period of months but was fine before that) We have a jacuzzi-style big tub which only has maybe 25% pressure and then two sinks in the vanity. The sink we use most is at maybe 50% pressure or less, and the one we hardly use is totally fine which stumps us. Oh, and there's also a shower above the tub (which we've never used and is missing a showerhead) but the same reduced trickle comes out of that pipe if we turn the shower on.
After reading posts at this site yesterday we drained and flushed the hot water heater. This SEEMS to have improved the length of our hot water in the shower and kitchen (on the ground floor) but it's only been a day so we'll see. However the two troublesome faucets upstairs are now at little more than a trickle! The good sink is still fine (after some sputtering while the water came back up there). Why would the flushing/draining we did make things worse but only upstairs and not even all three of them??
Plumbing is not our area I'll admit. Does anyone know what is going on with my upstairs faucets? Both are wand-style where you turn it side to side, and both the hot and cold are majorly reduced in pressure. Do we simply need to replace these?? Shouldn't we have full pressure to the shower if it was just the other two fixtures at fault? PLEASE HELP!! I want to take a bubble bath! lol