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slow hot water flow at only one faucet
Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your help.
Recently the bathtub in the second bedroom of my condo (built in 88) lost a great deal of pressure on the hot water side. When the faucet is turned all the way to the cold side, it flows just like normal but when it's turned all the way to hot, the flow is about 1/4 of where it was yesterday. All other faucets/shower in the rest of my place are working just fine hot or cold. This would imply one of two things to my amateur eye: 1 Some sort of blockage between the hot water heater and this bathroom or 2 A problem with the valves/faucet in the actual bathtub/shower Anyone have any experience with something like this? I'm a very do-it-myself type of guy so i'm trying to do whatever i can before i have to resort to calling a plumber. The more I think about it, I would think if there is a blockage it would be affecting the sink in the bathroom as well, which it is not. Getting a new bathtub/shower faucet 'set' is no problem, but i'd rather not get one if that's not the issue... Thanks for any help!! Andy |
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"shankdog" wrote: Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your help. Recently the bathtub in the second bedroom of my condo (built in 88) lost a great deal of pressure on the hot water side. When the faucet is turned all the way to the cold side, it flows just like normal but when it's turned all the way to hot, the flow is about 1/4 of where it was yesterday. All other faucets/shower in the rest of my place are working just fine hot or cold. This would imply one of two things to my amateur eye: 1 Some sort of blockage between the hot water heater and this bathroom or 2 A problem with the valves/faucet in the actual bathtub/shower Anyone have any experience with something like this? I'm a very do-it-myself type of guy so i'm trying to do whatever i can before i have to resort to calling a plumber. The more I think about it, I would think if there is a blockage it would be affecting the sink in the bathroom as well, which it is not. Getting a new bathtub/shower faucet 'set' is no problem, but i'd rather not get one if that's not the issue... Thanks for any help!! Andy Probably the valve in your faucet |
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Could be blockage in the valve itself. First I would disassemble, clean and
re-assemble to see if it fixes. If you have hard water a soak of parts in CLR may help. Maybe replace washers, disc or whatever with a 'repair kit' most likely available for your particular faucet. If installing parts from a repair kit and good cleaning of parts doesn't fix the problem then possibly replacing the valve would be next step. "shankdog" wrote in message ups.com... Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your help. Recently the bathtub in the second bedroom of my condo (built in 88) lost a great deal of pressure on the hot water side. When the faucet is turned all the way to the cold side, it flows just like normal but when it's turned all the way to hot, the flow is about 1/4 of where it was yesterday. All other faucets/shower in the rest of my place are working just fine hot or cold. This would imply one of two things to my amateur eye: 1 Some sort of blockage between the hot water heater and this bathroom or 2 A problem with the valves/faucet in the actual bathtub/shower Anyone have any experience with something like this? I'm a very do-it-myself type of guy so i'm trying to do whatever i can before i have to resort to calling a plumber. The more I think about it, I would think if there is a blockage it would be affecting the sink in the bathroom as well, which it is not. Getting a new bathtub/shower faucet 'set' is no problem, but i'd rather not get one if that's not the issue... Thanks for any help!! Andy |
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