cleaning the kitchen sink aerator UPDATE fixed, and plumber was an idiot

[BoomerD]

I have a couple of months off work at the moment, and I would be more than happy to come down and fix her plumbing

Is Princess Ida is Kitty?

Take it to L&R...

 

[nanette1985]

Okay. I've located the hot water supply and the cold water supply. All nicely new. Twisty valves are fine and easy to turn but the nuts are resistant.

If there's a quick and foolproof answer to the resistant-nut question, bring it on. But I'm not playing around with it just to see what happens. There's a limit. It's an apartment, darn it. With a very bad landlord.

 

[iGas]

Okay. I've located the hot water supply and the cold water supply. All nicely new. Twisty valves are fine and easy to turn but the nuts are resistant.

If there's a quick and foolproof answer to the resistant-nut question, bring it on. But I'm not playing around with it just to see what happens. There's a limit. It's an apartment, darn it. With a very bad landlord.

You know the routine, pics and we will help

Don't turn the packing nut on the stop valve, unless you don't mind flooding out the entire place.

Water main to the apartment must be shut off before stop valve packing nut can be undo.

The debris is not at the stop valves. It is at faucet assembly on top of your sink.

Turn off stop valves under the sink before you remove/clean the stem in the faucet assembly.

 

[Delbert]

ID the faucet?
http://www.homedepot.com/Kitchen/Gla...omni=c_Kitchen

 

[nanette1985]

ID the faucet?
http://www.homedepot.com/Kitchen/Gla...omni=c_Kitchen

Model F8F10009CP, 2-handle with side sprayer.

Anyone who wants pics (of faucet) should refer to the link in the quoted post. Ha.

 

[iGas]

PS.

If Princess Ida == Kitty, then when the heck did she have a litter?

Still remember the hot pics of her in the early 2000s.

 

[Delbert]

So the side sprayer works fine? Hot and cold?
I'm thinking stuck diverter valve.

 

[BoomerD]

Here's the installation guide. It shows the break-down of the individual faucet stem hardware.

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdf...d1fed9c40b.pdf

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

So the side sprayer works fine? Hot and cold?
I'm thinking stuck diverter valve.

Yep. Number 12 on the exploded view in the installation guide.

 

[iGas]

So the side sprayer works fine? Hot and cold?
I'm thinking stuck diverter valve.

It is possible that the diverter is clogged if both hot cold are not working. But if only hot or cold is not working then it could be the cartridge.

Installation Instructions – Glacier Bay 2-Handle Side Sprayer Kitchen Faucet in Polished Chrome Model F8F10009CP

5. Cartridge assembly

12. Diverter

 

[Delbert]

Cycle the trigger on the sprayer on and off real fast.

 

[nanette1985]

Cycle the trigger on the sprayer on and off real fast.

That was fun. Doesn't seem to help anything yet, but I'll keep doing it for the enjoyment.

 

[iGas]

That was fun. Doesn't seem to help anything yet, but I'll keep doing it for the enjoyment.

Call the plumber to come back and fixit. Other wise post in the morning & I will walk you through the steps of disassemble & reassemble the faucet if you are handy enough to take on such a task.

 

[nanette1985]

Call the plumber to come back and fixit. Other wise post in the morning & I will walk you through the steps of disassemble & reassemble the faucet if you are handy enough to take on such a task.

Plumber called. If it were my place I'd have a good time taking the faucet apart, but it's an apartment.

Thanks all for the help & fun.

 

[nonameo]

Lol, the funny thing is, it's probably cheaper to replace the faucet than it is to have a plumber come out and fix the one you have, and ANYONE can put a new faucet in it's easy as pie.

 

[nanette1985]

UPDATE

me & friend put in new faucet tonite, took half an hour - thanks for pointing that out

before that - I did call the landlord's plumbers who turned off the water in the building (which I don't have access to) and accidentally jostled the 100-yr-old copper plumbing causing a leak into the expensive antique store downstairs. They had to work on the leak and never got around to fixing my faucet. I didn't feel like calling them in again. Idiots.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Does water flow in the rest of the house? Are there cutoff valves under the sink? Unscrew, check hot, cold. Might want some pans or something to catch water with.

Is your water flowing Ok backwards...into the faucet????

 

[paperfist]

Did the plumber do any soldering when he installed everything? If so the debris from the copper work was probably clogging the aerator over and over again.