It is a price pfister, single handle pullout faucet (no side sprayer), it seems all of sudden I started losing pressure, particularly on the hot water side. The pressure in the rest of the house is fine. Any ideas why this would happen and how to fix it? I cleaned the aerator but that didn’t do anything.

I noticed about a week ago that my kitchen water temperature was lukewarm. I have a single handle faucet in the kitchen sink.
All the faucets in my apartment are that way. I checked the water temperature in the bathroom. It is coming out hot in the bathroom sink and shower. The hottest temperature in the kitchen faucet is lukewarm.
My husband thinks that it could be something wrong with the mixer valve in the faucet itself. Does the faucet need replacing in the kitchen? Will a new faucet solve the temperature problem?
Thanks for any answers.
The hot water valve is opened all the way.
So it’s not the hot water valve. It’s horrible doing dishes. I have to boil water to make sure they’re sanitary. I will inform the landlord about the faucet. He is quick to get repairs done.

I just purchased and installed a Price Pfister Florentino 2 lever kitchen faucet. When turning off the hot water, the lever rotates beyond the off position and gets out of alignment. I keep having to unscrew the handle, realign it and tighten it back in place. But it quickly get turned around again with normal use. What should I do to fix this permanently??

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.

I hate working with raw chicken. It can get annoying when you are worried about cross contamination.

Here’s my scenario.
I open the package of chicken, touch them, and now my hands have chicken juices. If I open the cupboards to grab a plate to place the chicken on, then I’m contaminating the clean plates with chicken juices. So I rinse my hands with water without soap. It would dry my hands and be annoying to have to wash your hands with soap and water evertime you have to touch something that is clean. Now if I have to open the refridgerator, I have to wash my hands again before going back to workign with the chicken. Then when I touch the faucet, the faucet handle is now contaminated. If I turn on the faucet with my arms or wrist instead, then chicken juices drips.
When I am finished there are chicken juices on the counter. I wipe it with a warm/hot rag without any bleach/detergetn and then rinse the rag with just plain warm/hot water wtihout bleach/detergent and use it later for the other counters in the kitchen. When I am finished with everything, I wash my hands with soap but I can still feel chicken parts between my nails but I can’t get it out so I just ignore it.

Are there easier w ays to work with chicken? Am I risking any cross contamination? Am I just being to paranoid/OCD?

I am not a good mopper and the truth is, I usually just sweep and spot mop. My kitchen floor has gotten really dirty. There are black scuff marks from our shoes, along with dirt and other stick stuff in certain places. I would typically use bleach and pine sol but that doesn’t seem to take the dirt off the floor good. Maybe I am not mopping hard enough. I used to use a sponge mop. Then I bought a Clorox mop but I think that is just for a routine cleaning, not when the floor is really dirty. I know I need to use hot water, but I am not sure the water that comes out the faucet is hot enough. Do I need to boil it first then add the chemicals and mop (after it’s cool enough to handle)?
I have ammonia, bleach and pine sol at home. Should I add a little dish soap to the water. I just really need ideas on how to get my floor clean!

We’re having a problem getting hot enough water to come out of the shower faucet in our 1950’s house. The water right now is not hot enough to take a warm bath in. The sinks in the kitchen and bathroom get scalding hot water but the shower only gets hot-ish water. The bathroom was redone recently…the plumbing replaced and tiled over. I think there is a problem with the faucet knob that is installed because if you pull up on the handle a little bit hotter water comes out. I want to have a plumber come out to see if the faucet knob can be replaced and solve the problem but I dont want him to come and tear my wall apart! My cousin said that if the plumber takes off the existing faucet that the hole in the tile is too small for him to see the pipes and he’ll definitely have to tear the wall apart? Am I screwed? Any suggestions? I’m dieing for a HOT bath!

where do I begin…part of this is venting and part of this is to hear of other experiences/results or opinions from someone in the field. I appreciate all the time it takes to read through and any input! Thank you!
On May 24th at 11am I was sitting in my Pittsburgh 2nd floor apartment when my fiancé and I began to hear water trickling in our bathroom. When we entered we found that where there had previously been an old water leak stain on the ceiling there was now a steady stream of water coursing down our walls. Which turned into a waterfall that literally flowed out of our ceiling and into the next room which is the kitchen. During this time we were attempting to remove our belongings from the path of destruction with little avail. 12 ceiling tiles burst causing roughly 1/2 to 1" of water to well up in our bathroom, kitchen, and about 1/4 of our adjoining living room.

The neighbor directly above us ran down stairs saying that as his wife turned off the faucet in their bathroom sink the handle flew off, spraying her with hot water. As they reached below to turn off the pipe, it also burst thereby flooding our entire apartment below them.

The landlord never returned our call in spite of the emergency but we did track down the maintenance worker. He did little more than walking upstairs to our apartments, saying F*&k a lot, and reassured us that when we returned from our two day trip all would be fixed.

We arrived home on the 27th of May we found that our apartment had not been TOUCHED. For the three days we were gone water had set-in the apartment and no windows we opened. The stench was horrible and as soon as I walked in my fiancé got a migraine from the mold that had been flushed out from behind the walls.

We immediately went downstairs to confront the landlord and found that he had not even BEEN in the apartment for three days he just let it sit.

In his vain attempt to appease us he insisted that we would be reimbursed for our losses in front of several witnesses and also in a voicemail.

The insurance men came and told the landlord everything needed to be replaced. There is mold crawling throughout the walls and floors and water had set stagnant for days.

So…for one month my fiancé and I were without a bathroom sink, ceiling, and floor. The "floor" consisted of literally rotten black water logged wood. This scenario was the same in the kitchen and 1/4 of the living room.

We attempted to cook in the kitchen a few times during this month but each time anything moved or the people upstairs walked across their floor we would have flakes of drywall, mold, rotten insulation fall into our food and throughout our kitchen.

One month went by with NO work to our apartment, and then within a week they had hired a maintenance man to come in and "cover up" the problem. However we have had 3 separate leaks since then. But our landlord is trying to say that it is fixed??

At any rate after their shoddy work, lack of work, and the poor integrity of this building we have decided to move out, we gave the landlord notice of our July1 moving date 6 days ago.
Although our last lease was month to month, we haven’t signed one since April, and we haven’t paid rent for June the landlord is trying to say we owe for not giving notice (Although he agrees we shouldn’t pay for the time our apartment was not fixed(May24th-Jun19th)
How can we give notice to a problem that was beyond our control? And we are not on a lease, and even if we were there is clause in the lease which states that if the apartment is damaged or could cause harm to others the tenant has the right to end the lease and move.
How can he think he’s getting away with this? What can I do?

Here’s My Kitchen sink model: http://www.pricepfister.com/Support/Faq/50160000000IGXcAAO.aspx
2 weeks ago my kitchen sink started leaking from the top of the handle on the hot water pipe. So, as suggested by Price Pfister, I replaced the cartridge. However, that did not stop the leak. It still leaks from the hot water pipe near the top of the handle. Furthermore, I am having a hard time removing the whole handle due to pipes and disposal in the way. Should I just replace the whole faucet system?

I recently bought a house that has only one shower. Upon inspection, the home inspector said that the water heater was in good condition and was relatively new.

Now that we’ve moved in, we have noticed that the shower does not get hot. It gets warm, but not hot. I checked the temperature gauge on the water heater and it was set to 125 degrees. I turned it up to 150 to see if that would help, and it did for a day or two.

The other faucets get hot without problems. The kitchen sink faucet has low pressure when we turn the hot water on there. The faucet in the bathroom that has the shower gets hot and maintains pressure for the most part.

There is a half bath located in the room that is adjacent to the water heater. We’re renovating that bathroom, so it has not been used, thus I don’t know how well that faucet performs.

What could it be? I suspect there is an anti-scald feature that might be what is causing the water to be warm, not hot. Delta (the faucet maker) has instructions how to change the setting on the scald feature, but I can’t get the handle off to access it. It says to use an allen wrench, but when I look at the screw holding it in place, there appears to be rust or some sort of corrosion preventing me from seeing if I should use an allen wrench or a screw driver.

Please help. The cold showers are unbearable.