Ok, sorry if this is a silly question...
I just DEwinterized this season... and everything works great except the kitchen faucets, both hot and cold, blew some air initially... but now they won't do anything -- no water, no air-hiss -- nothing.
Is there a valve somewhere that sends water to the kitchen sink that I forgot about??
Or could they have somehow simultaneously busted? Seems unlikely... more likely that I'm just forgetting something simple.
I've tried on both city water and tank w/pump -- the bathroom sink works fine with either... but the kitchen sink...nuthin'!
Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
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Re: Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
Take off the filter screen and make sure it's clean. (The thing that screws on to the end of the faucet to give a nice smooth flow of water.)
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Re: Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
That actually worked!!
Wow -- hard to believe just a little dirt-buildup could make it completely stop like that...
Thanks!!
Wow -- hard to believe just a little dirt-buildup could make it completely stop like that...
Thanks!!
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Re: Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
I didn't have the time to type out how I knew that, but I do now: After our first winterizing with the trailer, we were camping again, and I filled the water tank and turned on the pump and thought I was good to go. (Note, I only blow out the lines - I don't use the antifreeze in the fresh water lines.) But, only the shower and toilet worked. I was really scratching my head, and it took at least 10 minutes before I thought to check those filter screens - turns out the kitchen and bathroom screens were both clogged with debris. They were fine before I winterized!WildZora wrote:That actually worked!!
Wow -- hard to believe just a little dirt-buildup could make it completely stop like that...
The clue for me was that the filtered water faucet in the kitchen also worked. I knew the line for that branched off the cold water line right before the sink, and there were no valves, so I realized that whatever was stopping the water had to be in the faucet.
1991 Airstream B190 - bought, 2005; sold, 2011; bought 2017
1995 Airstream Excella 30' trailer
WBCCI #13270, Washington, DC Unit
1995 Airstream Excella 30' trailer
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Re: Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
The common element there is that we both winterized with high-pressure air -- that's what's pushing the debris through the lines to the faucet filter.
Thanks again for the perfect advice at the perfect time! -J.
Thanks again for the perfect advice at the perfect time! -J.
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Re: Kitchen Sink de-Wintering?
Yep. Of course then we have to wonder where that debris came from. Probably some of the gasket material in the polybutelene pipe connections.WildZora wrote:The common element there is that we both winterized with high-pressure air -- that's what's pushing the debris through the lines to the faucet filter.
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