Sudden water pressure lost

[Duane n Lora]

Ok. This is the oddest mystery that I've worked on with this coach.


Bear with me here.


I was starting to wonder if the loss of pressure on all faucets was real or imagined. Right at the same time as we noticed the loss of pressure, I had replaced my faucet head/strainer with a fancy new one that glows blue/green/red for cold/perfect/hot. And, our kitchen faucet has always suffered from a lower pressure. Hmmmm.


The other thing I did to prove the loss of pressure on all faucets was to take the shower head and attach it to the outside faucet and sure enough it barely pushed water through the shower head.


Soooooo, in a moment of desperation, yesterday (I'm boondocking at a family members house) I took that same shower head into their house, connected it to their shower and bam ... barely any water came through the shower head. What the. I then took their shower head back to the coach and bam ... it work.


Now I know some of you are going to say that my old shower head needed to be cleaned. That is not the case. I not only cleaned it, but I also soaked it in vinegar. It was cleaned. I even pulled the restrictor out. I took it apart and all I can say is that some part of that shower head had disintegrated and was not forcing the water through all the little holes and so it was just flowing out not under pressure in one spot. It appeared like no water pressure.


I still think I have a bit lower water pressure and so I'm still going to continue to investigate, but the real culprit was a broken shower head.


I never saw that coming.

[iluvuk]

Glad you figured it out!

[WantAB]

Originally Posted by myarmar

I don't think pressure gauge would help you in troubleshooting...

I agree. OP isn't have a pressure problem he's having a flow problem.

[Ljwt330]

First of all, I'm glad your problem has been solved!


However, the solution doesn't seem to gibe with what you described throughout your thread. You stated you had low flow to the washer/dryer, that you removed all aerators from faucets and still had low flow. Unless I misread your final post, you describe the problem as having been in the shower head. How does that one part affect all your other water outlets?


I'm not doubting that your problem is solved, but I wonder if there was a coincidental remedy when you switched the shower head. Logically, your solution doesn't fit the described symptoms which I understood to be low flow throughout the coach. It's quite possible I misunderstood your symptoms, but even in your final post you mentioned a problem at all outlets.

[Duane n Lora]

Originally Posted by Ljwt330

First of all, I'm glad your problem has been solved!


However, the solution doesn't seem to gibe with what you described throughout your thread. You stated you had low flow to the washer/dryer, that you removed all aerators from faucets and still had low flow. Unless I misread your final post, you describe the problem as having been in the shower head. How does that one part affect all your other water outlets?


I'm not doubting that your problem is solved, but I wonder if there was a coincidental remedy when you switched the shower head. Logically, your solution doesn't fit the described symptoms which I understood to be low flow throughout the coach. It's quite possible I misunderstood your symptoms, but even in your final post you mentioned a problem at all outlets.

No. You didn't misread anything ... I think anyway. I did take the aerator off my bathroom faucet, outside faucet, and shower, but when you do that, it is very hard to judge water pressure because it is flowing unrestricted. IOW, I've had 60 psi and 35 psi and I couldn't tell the difference with a free flowing faucet. Maybe if I could compare them right next to each other I could tell???


We have also had our washing machine stop working with an error code that when you look up in the documentation says "low water pressure."


That is why I ended my post by saying that I still believe that I have reduced water pressure. I just don't believe it is as pronounced as I first suspected.


Maybe I'm just not good at explaining myself. But, I believe that my main issue was a broken shower head, but that my secondary issue, lower water pressure, is still on going ... it's just not as bad as I first thought.

[Ljwt330]

Originally Posted by Duane n Lora

No. You didn't misread anything ... I think anyway. I did take the aerator off my bathroom faucet, outside faucet, and shower, but when you do that, it is very hard to judge water pressure because it is flowing unrestricted. IOW, I've had 60 psi and 35 psi and I couldn't tell the difference with a free flowing faucet. Maybe if I could compare them right next to each other I could tell???


We have also had our washing machine stop working with an error code that when you look up in the documentation says "low water pressure."


That is why I ended my post by saying that I still believe that I have reduced water pressure. I just don't believe it is as pronounced as I first suspected.


Maybe I'm just not good at explaining myself. But, I believe that my main issue was a broken shower head, but that my secondary issue, lower water pressure, is still on going ... it's just not as bad as I first thought.

Thanks, that makes sense. So, in short, you still may have a low flow issue throughout the coach, but you haven't been able to confirm it yet, correct?

[Duane n Lora]

Originally Posted by Ljwt330

Thanks, that makes sense. So, in short, you still may have a low flow issue throughout the coach, but you haven't been able to confirm it yet, correct?

That is correct. I think the issue still exist. I've just come to the conclusion that it is not as bad as I first thought.