My tubs not leaking but my toilet is half flushing, I have used draino, bleach, dish soap, I literally have a blister in the palm of my hand ive been plunging it continuously.. the water will rise when flushed but never emptys. Any ideas
This might be a dumb question but how does debris get in your water lines in the first place? That looked like sand in there. I am on city water and we don't get gunk in our water lines like that. Is this house on a well or does this happen to everyone?
You also take vinegar or what he used & a ziploc bag & rubber band. Do it w your shower head as well. It helps them function properly when there's calcium build up.
Sometimes it’s videos like this that I realize I was so lucky to have parents who did stuff like this. every weekend we cleaned the house, I was in charge of cleaning the bathrooms and my dad showed me this trick back when I was like 9/10
I work apartment maintenance and can tell you that vinegar works just as well. We have really bad hard water here and I have at least 2 shower heads soaking at any given time. With aerators however we buy a new pacake and rotate the old ones into the soak each time we have a move out.
Hi I have a Delta faucet with something similar. I have to clean it every few weeks or the water pressure is bad. Is the gunk that's trap there water minerals or just metal debris? Thanks
@@ct9375 Depends on the culprit If you have a tankless water heater it may need to be Descaled mineral deposite If you have a water softener & its little beads clogging aerators softner needs to be serviced you can put it on bypass if there's a valve on top If your water lines are old galvanized steel its mostly metal & there's no easy fix you need to repipe entire hot/cold eventually or it only gets worse Those are the most typical problems
I'm a plumber and people call for it all the time. Most of the time they don't know (and you wouldn't either most likely) what the problem is, it's generally a situation of I lost pressure in my entire house. When 1 fixture fails then some basic plumbing knowledge like this is handy, absolutely. But the majority of the time that isn't the case when I go to these jobs, it's a split pipe that has brought dirt in and clogged multiple fixtures so we get called to fix a leak and end up cleaning all the aerators. Don't judge others on their knowledge just because you have some, I don't know a day thing about windows and would never even attempt to Google it because it sounds like a real difficult thing to attempt and if you fuck it up you get water in your house, but according to the guy above who installs them it's very simple and takes 30 mins. Imagine calling someone to fix that. See what I mean? Your knowledge is not my knowledge and Don't pretend everyone can know everything. Most people don't even know what an aerator is, let alone how to fix it or even that it exists TO fix.
I once changed a lightbulb which my grandma said I shouldnt do it, and let a handyman sort it out. She was shocked when I screwed it out and plugged in a new one LOL i guess all grandmas just struggle a bit with technology and electricity
This is the exact kind of stuff I love to learn about! Those little things anyone should really be able to do but might just not know about which make everything better
I do this about every 6 months in our home with citric acid. Super simple and cheap. Also no need to tighten them down too hard. Just use your fingers 👌🏻
You know, many of us don’t realize that things we’d never think of cleaning need cleaned almost monthly.. whether it’s a dishwasher filter which I never knew existed, or taking apart a washing machine just to clean it. Now this. I’m doing this to every sink in my house.
Amazingly helpful! My sink got to the point where there was just a thin trickle of water coming out. I followed these directions, and my sink was running fast in no time. You saved me a service call - thank you! I’ll be subscribing to your channel.
We had the same issue with some 1985 taps at an 85 year old ladies house. We couldn’t get the aerators out as they were solid with calcium. We just replaced the faucets with new ones jut to make her feel good to get something new after that long.
Ikr. Because gas and time and licensing and rent and tools and materials are all FREE. He should probably just pay them for the privilege of fixing their stuff.
@@mattrondeau7466 People want everything done for nothing. It’s why my dad and I stopped doing residential landscaping years ago. Everyone wants their yard to be perfect with beautiful striping and flawless edging but they don’t wanna pay more than they’d pay the neighbor boy with a push mower.
As a former plumber and electrician, I can assure you that there's a ratio of how rich someone is and how clueless they're likely to be. I've gotten calls to, and I'm not kidding, turn a water valve on, because the owner (a MD) had no clue how to turn the water on for his bathroom. Poorer families just have the ins-and-outs of electrical and plumbing fixtures all figured out, they almost never call for simple stuff like this. They have common knowledge that, sadly, isn't too common with rich(er) families.
Not a question yet, but a comment. It's fucking amazing when people showcase things they can do to repair their own belongings like this. Fighting against mechanic says you need fresh blinker fluid syndrome one video at a time
For anyone wondering. Being a handyman In a rich town is extremely lucrative. Hoa's will literally pay you to come screw one thing in and clean up, it's crazy how little they know how to do.
Pretty much the same with the faucet we have at home. Since we do not have any chemicals to soak it, it took me extra efforts to flush the debris with high pressure water.
Because no one keeps the aerator key that came with the faucet (sometimes the builder/installer doesn't leave it). Props to Delta for using the penny method.
@@Repented008 Funny, I was able to obtain an ACTUAL education and figure this stuff out at the same time. Also, what are you implying exactly? That your education is above fixing a sink?
If you think that's bad you should research water treatment plants in your area, you will be disgusted and amazed all at the same time. Always filter your own water
damn! this is something an average person would never think off.. instantly checked mine tbf. looked pretty clean but took it out anyway and put it in some vinegar.
Some white worts start appearing and they spread. They look like water bubbles… try to imagine. Believe me, they don’t disappear so easily only when frozen by a doctor
I learn a few things from my dad as a kid. But i observed people doing work and every other machine n tool of how they were designed to be used. But i learnt a lot lot more simply cause he had a bunch of tools & i always had something to open fix break test n play curiously with. That said, no matter how clogged the aerator gets, the water should never ooze out from the sides. It simply means it was installed either loose or without it's rubber gasket. Also i use a pointed pair of pliers n not screw drivers to avoid scratching the expensive finish, that's if don't have a towel and a strong grip. Another tip for regular aerator - use a thin profile spanner on the notch. No adjustable wrenches or pliers please.
You’d be surprised how much broken stuff only need simple fixes like this. Our pump sprayer at work was getting really low pressure and we were thinking, man we gotta get a new one. I took a look at the nozzle and there was a ton of crap blocking the back end of it, rinsed it out and screwed it back in and now it works like new. In the words of the great Ron Swanson, “People who buy things are suckers.”
I remember trying to learn how to fix a sink off youtube when I was a teen and I was mind blown because the only thing wrong with our sink was the aerator 😂
If someone needs to do it, you can also just leave it in vinegar for the night and all the calc will be gone :) I had to to do it for the same reason and it was as good as new
I always drop them in a cup of vinegar for a couple hours or overnight. Obviously takes longer but much more convenient since I always have some lying around in a gallon jug
Many times when you purchase a new faucet they come with a tiny plastic tool to screw in the aerator. I highly recommend saving that little piece cause taking the aerator out can be a huge pain in the ass sometimes
Clr is an incredible coffee maker cleaner fyi. And before anyone says "but its poison"....you arent drinking it. You use a very small amount, dilute in a full pot, and then run several pots ful of water through to clear. You dont even know how funky your coffee make is now. Use vinegar if you're afraid of clr. Just go do it now!
The mixer unit in my kitchen had a design that didn’t make it very obvious it had one of those filters, and being over twenty years old I was expecting the old screw on the outside type. Imagine my surprise when my ever decreasing water fixed it’s self explosively as the 90% clogged filter exploded out in pieces. Water pressure is fine now!
What a blessing to remember being on the porch roof with Grandpa when I was 6-7. I see all these 'tips' and I was introduced to maybe 1 that I did not know. Now I have 500 houses within 1/2 mile east and west and keep convincing myself that no one would call a guy to walk 150 feet, take 2-3 tools out of his belt, have 100% success in 45 minutes, and pay $200-$400. Then I see this. Next will be a squeak in a door hinge. Then a key cylinder that sticks. The the unused garage walk-in side door was installed with prime only, 12 years ago, can you paint it?
I work at McDonald's, and this is almost exactly how we clean the soda fountain nozzles every night. Pretty cool how similar they are (although it seems obvious in hindsight)
