Water pressure discrepancy mystery
Here's a puzzler;
After letting my TT sit in the storage yard for 6 months, except when I took it to have the roof re-sealed, I put it on the road for our summer snowbirding.
All systems checked out, much to my relief, except one small thing. The water flow in the kitchen sink was much slower than the robust flow in the bath sink and tub/shower. I was at Sunrise RV in Santa Barbara on our first stop North, and it had high water pressure.
My adjustable water pressure gauge/regulator was set a little high, but still I had a skinny flow from the front sink. Then, another potential disaster then cropped up which scared the hell out of me.
The kitchen sink faucet started leaking! I couldn't turn it off unless I held it down or closed!
Turning down my variable water pressure regulator to about 35 psi cured this, thank God. I would have had to go to my potable tank and use the water pump, and turn it off when not in use, and keep it filled. Do-able but frustrating.
However, the front sink flow, which had been improving, went back to a slow flow.
After we pulled to Coastal Dunes in Oceano, the flow to the kitchen sink, though still slower than the bathroom, seemed to improve. And even more importantly, it's not leaking.
Whew!
What could all this be? One thing I thought; I had left open all the faucets so that the water would drain down to the tank, preventing the rare (for Southern California) freezing damage to the plumping, and preventing over-pressure to due to extreme heat :(not so rare in SoCal).
Could a bug have crawled up there and died? And now it's slowing getting washed out?
After letting my TT sit in the storage yard for 6 months, except when I took it to have the roof re-sealed, I put it on the road for our summer snowbirding.
All systems checked out, much to my relief, except one small thing. The water flow in the kitchen sink was much slower than the robust flow in the bath sink and tub/shower. I was at Sunrise RV in Santa Barbara on our first stop North, and it had high water pressure.
My adjustable water pressure gauge/regulator was set a little high, but still I had a skinny flow from the front sink. Then, another potential disaster then cropped up which scared the hell out of me.
The kitchen sink faucet started leaking! I couldn't turn it off unless I held it down or closed!
Turning down my variable water pressure regulator to about 35 psi cured this, thank God. I would have had to go to my potable tank and use the water pump, and turn it off when not in use, and keep it filled. Do-able but frustrating.
However, the front sink flow, which had been improving, went back to a slow flow.
After we pulled to Coastal Dunes in Oceano, the flow to the kitchen sink, though still slower than the bathroom, seemed to improve. And even more importantly, it's not leaking.
Whew!
What could all this be? One thing I thought; I had left open all the faucets so that the water would drain down to the tank, preventing the rare (for Southern California) freezing damage to the plumping, and preventing over-pressure to due to extreme heat :(not so rare in SoCal).
Could a bug have crawled up there and died? And now it's slowing getting washed out?
