Why did water stop coming full blast from the kitchen sink sprayer? Now comes out of faucet AND sprayer ?
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Otis123 asked:
When first installed, the kitchen sink faucet and sprayer worked so well. When we needed to spray, we pushed the button, water stopped coming from the faucet and through the sprayer only. Great! Now water comes from both sources, and the power is light on both. How do I get the water to come from the sprayer only when needed, at full force???? Thank you.
Thank you all for your very detailed and informative answers! We’ll try some of these suggestions. Thank you!
Claudia
When first installed, the kitchen sink faucet and sprayer worked so well. When we needed to spray, we pushed the button, water stopped coming from the faucet and through the sprayer only. Great! Now water comes from both sources, and the power is light on both. How do I get the water to come from the sprayer only when needed, at full force???? Thank you.
Thank you all for your very detailed and informative answers! We’ll try some of these suggestions. Thank you!
Claudia
March 15th, 2009 at 1:12 am
possibly a diverter problem.
You can get to the diverter in a good deal of faucets by first turning of the water at the shut offs.Then remove the spout by loosening whatever type of retaining device holds it on .The diverter is in a hole on the front of the sleeve that the spout fits over on the faucet body.
Pull it out ,take it to the hardware store to match it,put it all back together.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Check your sprayer it might have lime or iron build up. Try soaking the sprayer head in Lime away or some other lime or rust remover.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
In the base of the faucet is a shuttle valve which diverts the water flow to the sprayer. Probably a seal on the valve spool is bad. They are usually o-rings. The problem is how to get access to the bad part. Different faucets come apart in different ways.
If you can remove the faucet where it swivels the access to the valve is easy to get to. Otherwise you might have to pull the whole assembly and work from the bottom.
That’s the best I can offer without seeing the unit.
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:53 am
grit/dirt in valve. take apart and clean or buy a new one, less than $10 a lowes, and replace.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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