The handle has become very stiff that it is hard to turn to switch to hot or cold water. I took out the screw on top of the handle in order to clean it but the handle itself won’t come off. I don’t want to force it in case I break something.What can I do to fix it?

This is a 2 handle faucet. It leaks cold water continuously. It has a cartridge in the handle about the size of a C cell battery, with 2 o-rings on it. There are no rubber cups or springs in the assembly. I changed the lower o-ring but it still drips water out the faucet when the handle is closed.

while the cold water was running I bumped the sprayer and the faucet stopped letting water through altogether. I have tried taking the sprayer apart, but I can’t get water to come out of anything. I am getting water coming up to the faucet from the supply below the sink. The faucet is just a standard kitchen faucet, a cold handle, a hot one, and the sprayer. It was bought from Kmart five years ago, any suggestions to get the water to flow again?
I had thew water supply on, as it was running when it happened,. I took the sprayer head off with everything as it was when the faucet was working, and I am not getting anything to come out now, but I can feel the water coming up from the supply, I can feel the temperature differences.
When I say the sprayer, I am referring to the clack spray extension, not the actual faucet itself where the water comes out when the faucet is turned on.

I have an oil heated furnace. Cold water goes into my furnace an I have an output side from the furnace to my kitchen sink then goes to the other side of the house it split again to the upstair bathroom and then the downstairs bathroom. In the morning I have hot water for a shower for about 30 seconds then it dies off. I tried turning off the cold water between the kitchen sink and the upstairs an my hot water turned down to a trickle out of the shower. I took my single handled faucet knob off and turned it past the plasitc stop and the water got hoter but pressure really diminished. I’m thinking mineral deposit build up (the house is 35 years old) due to the white calcium build up around my shower head. I replaced the shower and tub with PVC about 6 years ago. I the problem has been getting progressive worse over the past 5 years. Is it a problem with my set up or calcium deposts or something else? Furnace was just cleaned. Pipes have styrofoam insulation.

The thing I need to unscrew is under my kitchen sink. The whole faucet moves around and I can see from underneath the hole that the hot and cold water handles are going through, so the putty is free of the under part of the sink. I just am not able to unscrew it (with my hand) because I think the putty is probably in the threads. Is there any way, like a chemical or something, that would loosen this up? Or do I need to go buy some type of tool.
LOL…sorry, I’m very sleepy…I meant "plumbers putty between the threads". yawn…

When I turn on the cold water in my kitchen sink I feel a loud vibration coming from the floor. It only happens with the cold water. It’s a single handle faucet, turn to the right for cold and left for hot. It only seems to happen in the kitchen as well, which is locate din the center of the house. I’m wondering if it could be a loose pipe that’s rattling but it doesn’t feel like a rattle, but rather a loud humming/vibration.

I live in a 4 year old home with plastic pipes. The kitchen sink has good pressure and flow until I turn it all the way up. On high I hear a thud and then pressure drops. It only happens in the kitchen, but it happens with both hot and cold. It happens every time that I lift the handle all the way up.

I’ve been reading about blockages so I took off the screen and there was no blockage. I then turned the hot water off, disconnected the hose, covered the faucet and forced cold water through the hot lines. I then repeated the opposite way. That didn’t help.

What else can I try?

I have a Kohler kitchen faucet, one of those single handle pieces with removable head. The braided flexible hose that connect to the cold water shutoff leaks behind the female connector. The other end disappears into the faucet part and I cannot get it apart. The leak is just behind the female thread where there is a solid piece between the thread part and braided hose. The tag on the part says it is part number R16150-AA-CP, but this does not show up on their web site. I don’t have much spare line to work with (unless there is some way to splice another piece on. Does anyone know how to fix this?
It’s not the thread. It is behind that where there is a solid piece that connects the thread to the braided hose. I tried teflon tape and put a rubber o-ring on top of the washer and threaded real tight, but still leaks. i cannot remove the hose because the other end is not accessible (goes into the faucet part and i cannot get that apart).

So I was replacing the hose and sprayer that was installed in my kitchen sink. Part of the process was to turn the water off under the sink, both hot and cold. After turning both valves back on, the cold water came out the faucet as previous, but the hot was at maybe a tenth of the pressure(there are two handles, hot/cold).

So I went into the bathroom to turn on the hot water, and it was great, no change.

So it seems to me that the hot water valve under the kitchen sink is the culprit; is this the right assumption?

If the valve is the problem, can I re-condition it, or does it need to be replaced?

Some back history, the house is only 12 years old, but it seems the builders used the cheapest materials/parts for the job.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi. I just moved to the 3 bedroom/2 bathroom townhome we bought recently. We are able to get hot water in the kitchen sink, the sink in both bathrooms, and one of the bathtubs/shower. In the shower/tub guest bathroom, however, there is no hot water at all. Lots of cold water, though.

More details: the water is heated throughout the townhouse unit from an electrical pump. As I’ve mentioned, hot water (temperature and pressure) is fine for all faucets except for this one location. The shower/tub is a single-handle faucet–and when it is turned all the way to "Hot", water pressure drops to a trickle, and yet, only cold water comes out, no matter how long we run the water.

I am hoping you can help me–people on this forum have always come up with great advice and ideas in other questions I have asked. If not, I will have to call a plumber…

Thanks in advance…if you need more details, please let me know, and I’ll try to provide as much info as possible.