AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you think your home has low water pressure, you may be confusing this for a simpler issue. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: This tip is about low pressure coming out of a particular faucet in your home, most likely the bathroom or a kitchen faucet. Over time — there is an aerator, which is a thing that hooks into the end of the faucet — and it’s an aerator, which means it has a filter supposed to reduce the water output to 45%. It’s because when you’re brushing your teeth, for example, and the faucet is going full speed, it’s a lot of waste of water. This actually reduces the water by 45 or 50%. It’s like a filter, and this filter over time sometimes gets clogged with a lot of sediment from the utility company or from your hot water heater tank, and it gets clogged. And this actually reduces the flow of water even further and it’ll be like a trickle.
So, what you do, you remove this thing, unscrew it, and you run the water — if the water’s pressure is perfect, this means that you have to replace the filter in here. And you buy this stuff from any hardware store, you can buy five or six of them or one at a time, and you replace that and you’re back to normal.
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