How to Fix Slow Water Flow in a Waterfall Faucet 

Some heroes don’t wear capes... they make RU-vid videos! Thanks for posting 👊🏼

Thanks for the video. Mineral deposits had my plastic flow restrictor permanently stuck, but leaving it in the faucet and brushing it out with a pipe cleaner and toothpick fixed it.

Wow, thank you so much for posting this! Much easier than I anticipated.

I will share my experience with this. My old house had been mostly replumbed except for the supply to the upstairs bath. I installed a Vigo waterfall faucet and with the flow restrictors in place but it ran too slowly. Took the restrictors out and it was better but still very slow. A few years later we re-did the plumbing to that bath. Then the water shot out of the faucet and climbed the far side of the vessel sink and onto the floor. Tried putting the restrictors back in but wasn’t happy with the still greatly reduced flow so I took them back out. If you have good water pressure and kids, you might want to leave the restrictors in. If you’re cautious when turning the water on you should be OK with them out. Vigo make a higher flow restrictor (1.8 vs 1.2) but I don’t feel like hassling with it.

Thank you so much for this video. I was breaking my head as to what was the issue and mine is a new faucet. All is good now. Thanks again buddy, I appreciate it.

You have no idea how helpful this was!!! I’ve been searching for a fix for a long time. You the REAL mvp!!

You just saved me £100 plumber call out!! Thanks very much!

I have the exact faucet and you literally saved my day. Got an old house and got a bunch of junk in my water lines

Thank you so much for the video. I own a Vigo faucet and have searched for months on fixing the slow water issue. This really works!!!

I too thank you. I took the stupid faucet apart 10 times (trying different things) but never even knew that little plastic piece was the problem!! Once I cleaned that out, it flowed perfectly!!

Thank you! Would have been lost without this video. Worked like a charm.

This is perfect! I just bought a used facuet, and noticed it was running slow. I'll be doing this tonight.

Thank you so much Collin!!! Will give it a shot on my bathroom faucet.

Thanks so much for putting this video together. Really appreciate that.

Thanks Colin. Excellent video. This is very helpful and it saved me the effort of calling Vigo support or returning the product. I also like to add to your video that mine (bought in March 2022) came with an O-ring placed inside the white plastic reducer. I also removed the O-ring and the flow was powerful now. much appreciated!

Thank you for the video. There are very few references online and this fixed my problem.

Thank you Collin your video was a great guide to fixing this problem .

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed to see. We have the same issue!

Thank you for this video. It drove me crazy on the flow. Now it is fantastic!

Saved me from returning. Thanks!

Thank you so much! Super helpful! I now have water flow.

Thank you so much for this video!!! We had the exact same problem and your method worked!!

Great video. Thank you so much. I'm glad to have learned that first collar was removable, as mine was bloody tight! Thanks again, Collin.

Excellent video. Very well done! Thank you.

Fix worked great. Thank you!

Bravo. I have a completely different brand, but it was the same inside. I failed to heed my plumber friend, who told me whenever installing these on a new or otherwise repaired line to install a hose and run the water into a bucket before hooking up each line. I had a little copper bit in mine from cutting the line to replace the shutoff.

This is fantastic, i had exactly the same issue and this fixed it, thanks

Hi have 2 waterfall faucet brand Hansa and the 2 have the same problem, slow water fall. Thank for the tutorial! very useful. When i repair mine Hansa faucet I will make the video of disassemble and repair of it.

Thank you so much This video was super helpful

This was a great help! Thank you.

this saved me big time!

Awesome. Thanks man

Can you leave out the restrictor since it will continue to get clogged?

My problem was filter screens at the water hose connection of the faucet.

Awesome!! I wonder what would happen if we ran faucet without restriction lol

Thanks so much for this video!!! You saved me so much time and energy. I have a quick question: You popped the top part off with an Allen wrench so effortlessly, but I do not see or understand how to do that on mine. Does yours have a little circle in the front?

The piece that was dirty is it necessary to place it back in?

Hey Collin, thanks for this video. I have a slightly different Version. It appears my pink aerator has a gasket inside, which seems too restrictive. Did yours have a gasket in the aerator?

@Collin Bustanoby Any idea where to get a replacement plastic flow restrictor? I mangled mine taking it out and unless I dial the supply way down, water flies out without it!

I have a brand new vigo faucet that flows slower than the previous faucet on a non vessel sink. Will this fix the issue since it’s new??

I'm pretty handy and followed your directions but still getting low water pressure. Any thoughts?

Can you just leave the restrictor out?

What the little rubber part called? Mine broke durinh me trying to take it out

my waterfall faucets are brand new and have restricted hot water flow, so this doesnt seem like it would be the issue? is there an adjustment?

just curious if there's a reason to put that flow restrictor back in? when you say you put the valve back in and ran some water through, was it flowing more water or too much water without the restrictor? i'm asking because in another vid where the homeowner had very low flow in all his faucets (all same faucets), he simply removed the restrictor and he had a more forceful flow. so i'm replacing all my faucets and was considering just removing the restrictor before installing. any thought on that? Thanx for sharing this, very informative.

Hi! I have low water flow on my waterfall faucet. I found the water restrictor and it looks clogged, but it won’t come out. Do you have recommendations on how to pop it out? I used a needle nose plier and it feels super stuck in there

Do you need the valve restricter?

Just what I was looking for! Thank you. Why can't you just remove that flow restrictor?

How do you remove the top?

Am I to understand that you routinely remove the flow restrictive piece to clean and replace? If so, why don't you keep it off?

Just leave it out

Overcomplicated junk. Do not buy.