Attempts just to clear the obvious filter have succeeded. But there seems to be another filter inside, inaccessible without special tools, and that is clogged. We are not pleased. It’s a pain to service, Jane has had it, and I am putting my foot down. We are getting a faucet AFTER the Black Friday sales, and we are getting it installed by a plumber, and we are getting a Delta brand faucet, very likely, which has service instructions that involve simple unscrews.
All this followed our attempt to flush the hot water heater in the basement, so maybe we just succeeded in stirring up some calcium deposit, which went upstairs. But inaccessible filters inside the faucet—? That’s not good engineering. Planned obsolescence. This faucet was such a bear to install (Jane did it) that we had to do it before actually settling the stainless sink into its clips. It has a garbage disposal attached, which weighs a ton, and we are not anxious to try to heft that to change faucets, so we are going either get a nice faucet we’ll install in a new sink when we get it, or we’re going to go for cheap and functional stopgap until we get the new kitchen sink.
Get the faucet you want. You’ll just be annoyed, else. And get a plumber to install. I finally gave up and decided that I simply don’t DO plumbing. I’m too old to be climbing around under sinks and banging my knuckles/head/elbow trying to make the tools I have do a job they weren’t designed for. Plumbers have the tools, know the tricks, and are worth their hire.
Life is too short not to have a decent sink faucet! Worth the money to pay a professional. Worth the money not to have to deal with the aggravation of putting it in yourselves. Consider it a treat to yourselves to make up for the 7-1/2 days of not having power and all the vicissitudes that came with and get what you want.
Well, we’ve nursed it into a limp trickle that will deliver hot water. If you start it running when you start supper prep, you will have dishwater by the time you serve dinner. We think maybe we can live with it until we do cabinets, but those may be put off another year. 😉
Hey! Computer! Let go of it!
Just checking… Got a previous contentful post in here that didn’t show up.
And ALL of a sudden the limping faucet began to gush water as it hasn’t done since it was new. Go figure. Saves us a hassle.
Makes sense, actually.
Pro’ly a thin flat piece of calcification from the water heater got crosswise of a passage-way in the faucet. Running the water, with the help of some fluctuations in pressure from other faucets on the line, finally broke it in pieces.
The fount of something-or-other? Congratulations!
Lo, the thermostat hath arrivèd in today’s mail. Many thanks for Joe’s kindness. Likely, I’ll get it installed Monday. My check arrived. Ouch. December will be very tight. But I think I’ll skate by. Things must improve next year, though. Working on fotns, etc.
Looking forward to getting the new thermostat installed. Hurray!
(Ironically, today’s high was about 78, but temps are supposed to go down Sunday or Monday, to highs in the mid-60’s and lows near but above freezing. So the thermostat will be *quite* welcome!)
I hope it works…..it’s only a temporary measure until you get a more decent thermostat, but it should run your heat for you…..
If not, just pitch it, I don’t need it back….
At least now you have hot water in the kitchen, and you can wait to buy the faucet you want later, hopefully at a price you like, and have it installed by a professional at your leisure. Crawling about under the sink to do any type of plumbing makes me want to bite things, even if getting it done is satisfying.
I take it the garbage disposal is not actually integral to the sink, just unwieldy and heavy? That would be craptastic design otherwise.
I know I have probably mentioned it before -but if you are contemplating a new kitchen sink -look at the D shaped ones. Much more room for the same amount of counter space.
I’m definitely looking at one of the new types.