Watching this video gave me another idea as you were preparing to swap out the fixture. I had checked the valve as you did for pressure and ran a jet spray through the hose that connects to the hot water valve and got some debris out. Removed the hot water handle and the plastic fixture like you did, and boom, debris inside the swivel of the plastic handle fixture. look like old seal and small pebbles from a bad repair. Now it runs like a champ full and true. Thanks for the video, it really helped in making sure that I checked everything that would be an issue. Come to find out it was the debris that was getting caught in the line that connects both hot and cold water to the faucet itself. Just turned on the cold water to flush all the garbage out of the line into a bucket below and it was fixed. Thanks again for this and the idea to do it.
Good stuff. My experience is Delta is a PITA to deal with. I switched to Tuscany many years ago. Free new parts sent on a 20 year old faucet no questions and faucet bases are made of metal not plastic. Someone should make a ball shutoff valve with a built in screen that can be cleaned or replace. It would solve a love of problems. Or an inline screen to be installed after the shutoff valve.
Thank you! Tried the line trick before watching this and had decent pressure. Both my hot and cold are low to almost non existent. Plus when I turn off the faucet it still dribbles for several seconds before stopping. I also have the same type stems that your old one had. Looks like I’m getting a new faucet!!😅
Hot DAMN- nice instruction. Yup my problem with my hot water pressure turned out to be the 40 year old valve, same crud inside, seems like they didn't have homeowner ball valves back then I guess.
Great tutorial. The new faucet you installed is like mine so I'm hoping you can help- I'm getting water from my sprayer hose but NOT the actual faucet part. The mesh screen at the end is clear, water pressure is fine, etc. I think it might be a clog in the diverter but I have no clue how to get to that part. Any ideas?
My HOT water pressure is good (not great) in bathroom sink and shower, but just a trickle in the kitchen, after a NEW hot water heater was installed. It got worse over the course of the day. I followed the steps in this video and it isn't the kitchen faucet, nor the line under the sink above the valve, nor the valve, which is about 3 years old. The HOT water just trickles out of the direct copper line from the NEW hot water heater. Looks like I'm calling a plumber. :(
Why use plumber's putty with the faucet gasket? Isn't the point of a gasket to seal? Odd that the sprayer has no gasket though. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of a gasket here?
In my case, my bathroom sink has great cold water pressure, but lousy when I turn on hot water, What are the possible issues when one has pressure but the other does not? Maybe the under sink hoses or valve on hot water?
@@chriscraft2I have good pressure throughout the rest of the house. The valves were put on at the same time and are the same. I just checked and I noticed when I try to turn hot water on full blast, a little water is coming out at the bottom of the faucet fixture on that side. It is all one fixture. I will have to get someone to do it for me, but wanted to have a good idea of what it was first. Thanks for your quick replies.
Never use steal wool on a stainless steal surface. The steel from the steal wool will impregnate into the the S/S and make it rust. Use brass wool or a rough sponge.
Not quite. SS is an alloy, so no matter what is done to the surface, the material will never change. You would be correct in regards to metals with corrosion-resistant coatings like chrome or zinc plating on other metals, where you may be exposing the raw metal if you use an abrasive. Regardless, stainless or not, all steels rust without proper care, and not scuffing up your shiny new fixtures is generally good advice, LOL.
