I had a sprinkler system problem that required several repairs and in that process I seem to have gotten a lot of debris in the pipes inside my home. In fact, the final repair was made (by me) and when I turned on the water at the street, there was no pressure at all! I fooled with this and that then when I was in the garage, I heard sound from the pipes I never heard before. The main cutoff for the house is there behind the water heater so I closed the valve all the way, then reopened it and in that process I must have knocked the plug loose because I now had pressure albeit weak. Since them, I've had to flush out all the toilet fill valves. I've taken off the aerators of most faucets to clean out the screens. But I still have pressure problems. The main one now (or next on the list) is the washing machine. When the rinse is set to cold, it would probably take a 30 minutes to fill the tub. I've put it on warm so we can at least do laundry. How would I go about flushing the clog in a washing machine, and does anyone have any suggestions about how to flush out the whole system?
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15 years ago