Bizarre water problems
First time out this year.
Sanitized after dewinterizing this late spring. Had a full FW tank. Towed great.
After setting up with full hookups, flushed the toilet, normal. Checked the kitchen (only) sink. Hot water normal, cold water a slight drizzle. Checked the shower, hot & cold normal flow. Outdoor shower, normal flows. Then the toilet started barely drizzling out.
Both showers flowed normal. Used a container with shower water for flushing all weekend.
After trying a few things Saturday and draining the FW tank after discovering it overflowing (must be a bad check valve), the flow for sink hot significantly decreased and the cold ran similar to the hot, a steady flow that would take 30-45 seconds to fill a cup. FW tank refilled over night.
Here’s the strangeness. First T off the supply line after pump and city water is outside shower, tested fine two days. Water lines run front to back and come up under shower. T out there aft to toilet, forward to next T. That T supplies the shower and continues forward on that side to the sink. Shower has full flow, toilet not. Again shower has full flow, sink not. I will drain the system with low point drains this week and start over. I only had one set of pliers and did not have a large enough wrench for the low point drains to test while camping (I will add two large adjustable wrenches to the TT toolkit).
All I can figure is a couple of air locks are happening since the middle flows but two ends in different directions don’t.
Sanitized after dewinterizing this late spring. Had a full FW tank. Towed great.
After setting up with full hookups, flushed the toilet, normal. Checked the kitchen (only) sink. Hot water normal, cold water a slight drizzle. Checked the shower, hot & cold normal flow. Outdoor shower, normal flows. Then the toilet started barely drizzling out.
Both showers flowed normal. Used a container with shower water for flushing all weekend.
After trying a few things Saturday and draining the FW tank after discovering it overflowing (must be a bad check valve), the flow for sink hot significantly decreased and the cold ran similar to the hot, a steady flow that would take 30-45 seconds to fill a cup. FW tank refilled over night.
Here’s the strangeness. First T off the supply line after pump and city water is outside shower, tested fine two days. Water lines run front to back and come up under shower. T out there aft to toilet, forward to next T. That T supplies the shower and continues forward on that side to the sink. Shower has full flow, toilet not. Again shower has full flow, sink not. I will drain the system with low point drains this week and start over. I only had one set of pliers and did not have a large enough wrench for the low point drains to test while camping (I will add two large adjustable wrenches to the TT toolkit).
All I can figure is a couple of air locks are happening since the middle flows but two ends in different directions don’t.
