Water Pressure Problem - One Faucet Only

[ianjones]

I recently replace my water heater and every time I drained it and turned off the cold and hot water valves and then filled it back up, the pressure in my kitchen would be almost 0. Within a day or 2 it slowly came back. It happened both times I went through that process while trying to repair my old WH. Now that I have replaced it I again get no pressure and it is not getting any better. It has been 3+ days. Is it possible there is an air pocket somewhere? (this seems unlikely given that I have let it run) Could something have clogged the faucet in the process?

Thanks, Ian

[Bob]

The most obvious thing to check is the screen in your faucet aerator. Crud in the pipes gets knocked loose when making such changes, and the screens get plugged.

Bob

[Edwin Pawlowski]

That has happened to me and is the easiest to fix if clogged .

Step two is to check the cartridge in the faucet. I've had that blocked also.

[Eigenvector]

The same thing happened to me when I moved in a replaced the WH. I turned on the water and about 2 years of rush flowed into the aerators and plugged them up solid. A quick test is to take the aerator off and see if the pressure goes up. It might also be the valves, they get plugged too.

[ianjones]

Not sure which parts were clogged but I took the whole thing apart and cleaned everything - it worked fine after that.

Thanks for the help.

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