Susan O
About every couple days I turn the shower on or the faucet on and fine no water coming out. If I tap on my water pressure regulator I hear a hiss and the water pressure comes back in full. Why does this happen every couple days? Is there an adjustment or should it be replaced? Thanks
Answer
Sounds like the screen (filter) in your PRV is clogged. You can definitely take it apart and clean or replace parts but it's really not worth doing that unless it's a larger PRV. You can get a new 3/4" PRV for less than a hundred bucks. I say it's not worth it because you can open up a can of worms trying to repair it ie. finding parts, washers bad, bolts hard to remove etc. Next thing you know you have no water or have to bypass the PRV till the parts show up.
A licensed plumber will charge anywhere between $250 to $500 to replace this, that is with him coming out troubleshooting it, going and getting the parts, returning and installing.
You could save money by supplying all the parts yourself but most plumbers won't guarantee parts supplied by the customer.
You could try doing it yourself with a combination of threaded fittings and unions. Just make sure when you order the valve that you order unions with IP threads. Don't use pipe dope on the union gaskets.
Sounds like the screen (filter) in your PRV is clogged. You can definitely take it apart and clean or replace parts but it's really not worth doing that unless it's a larger PRV. You can get a new 3/4" PRV for less than a hundred bucks. I say it's not worth it because you can open up a can of worms trying to repair it ie. finding parts, washers bad, bolts hard to remove etc. Next thing you know you have no water or have to bypass the PRV till the parts show up.
A licensed plumber will charge anywhere between $250 to $500 to replace this, that is with him coming out troubleshooting it, going and getting the parts, returning and installing.
You could save money by supplying all the parts yourself but most plumbers won't guarantee parts supplied by the customer.
You could try doing it yourself with a combination of threaded fittings and unions. Just make sure when you order the valve that you order unions with IP threads. Don't use pipe dope on the union gaskets.
Cold water pressure up, hot water press down in sink?
Jason S
I'm have a strange thing happen in one of my two master bathroom sinks. A few background notes first.
1) I re-piped my house about 2 months ago
2) This sink is where the return valve is for the recirculating pump
3) They did NOT replace the valves in this sink
Everything had been normal until yesterday when I noticed the sink was dripping out of the faucet very slowly. I tried to twist the cold water valve tighter but still it would drip. Today I noticed that all of the sudden the water pressure / flow that I'm getting when I have the cold side on has increased but when I turn the hot water on the pressure / flow has decreased. I'm trying to figure out if I have a bad valve or if something is wrong with the recirculating valve bypass thing?
The other sink in the master bathroom is working totally fine and normal.
Thoughts?
@Stephen
Thanks for the input. I'm worried that something found it's way into the recirculating valve. Will that flush out as well?
See valve on top left of this image http://www.houseneeds.com/shop/images/grundfos_comfortvalve.jpg
Answer
It sounds like the soldering paste used to solder has found its way up to your hot water valve or beyond to the faucet If your up to it shut the valve take apart the supply up to the faucet bend it over to flush out into a bucket turn on water fill bucket If your pressure is OK the problem is in the faucet behind the washer take apart and clean
It sounds like the soldering paste used to solder has found its way up to your hot water valve or beyond to the faucet If your up to it shut the valve take apart the supply up to the faucet bend it over to flush out into a bucket turn on water fill bucket If your pressure is OK the problem is in the faucet behind the washer take apart and clean
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