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Hi guys,
I just got a new water hose for my gardening and stuff. The problem is that once I start the water, it’s a mess, water starts to spill from the top of the hose itself, (which means from the part attached to the faucet) and I don’t know what to do. I tried to reduce the strength of the water and stuff like that, however, nothing changed. Is there a specific product or something that could help me to stop the spilling? Because my faucet it’s right on the new seeds I just planted, and too much water could kill them before germination. Thank you for your time guys.

the water pressure in my house varies from room to room. I have a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath split-level house. The water pressure in the 1/2 bath (lower level), laundry room, and one full bath (hallway) is fine. The water pressure in the kitchen and shower in the other full is extremely low/weak. In addition, the water in the kitchen tastes like you are drinking from a garden hose (tastes fine from all other faucets). Would replacing the faucet in the kitchen help with the pressure and/or taste? I have a pretty basic gooseneck faucet on there now (american standard). I tried replacing the hoses in the kitchen last year and switched from white to stainless steel. That seemed to help the taste initially, but the water now tastes as bad as it ever has.

If this would not fix the taste and/or pressure, any ideas what might? Once again, the pressure and taste are fine throughout the house, with the pressure being low only in the kitchen and one shower and taste bad in only the kitchen. Thanks in advance for any tips!

People have told me I should leave a faucet dripping overnight to help keep the house’s pipes from freezing. Just one? Should it be in the house, like the kitchen sink, or should it be one of the outside ones? I’ve already taken the garden hoses off those and wrapped them in towels. Anything else I should do? Thanks!
Perfect, Pancake! Just what I needed to know. Thanks!

Hello Again,Man, I tell ya, it was a flip of a coin to decide weather or not to start a garden this year, and after much debate, I decided to go ahead, but I now wish I wouldnt have. I did everyting right, from soil testing to correct tempatures to plant each veggie, to placement of the garden itself, (shady vs. more sun). I guess all thats great, but they’re dying and not from bugs, but like little light brown spots turn into big brown spots, until the plant is no longer able to survive, no matter what I try to do to help. The only thing I can come up with is, that we water with city water from an outside faucet with a garden hose, and maybe something the city put into the water to make it safe for us, may have a negitive effect on the tomato and pepper plants, especially.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thank you!!!

My house has decent water pressure if i’m only using one faucet. But if i’m using a faucet and flush a toilet then the faucet flows much slower than originally; the more water utilities i use the less flow i get out of each utility.

And, for instance: When i’m using garden hose, and i first open the hose nozzle it shoots water say 20 feet; but it quickly goes from shooting 20′ to 2′. Let off the nozzle and i can feel water hose build up pressure.

This is on city water system.

I popped off the cover on the water meter (hoping to find a valve in there half closed) and the electrical line going from the ‘auto meter reader’ disappears into water.

Is the water meter supposed to be under water?

Any help?
Yes it is existing problem.

I pumped the water out of the ‘meter well’ and found the drain pvc tubes are clogged in there. I emailed the city to fix drain; and asked for them to check pressure/flow on their end.

House was built in 1952 i think…. so pretty old. Interior plumbing is ‘newer’ than that though; no idea on age of outdoor water line. This problem has been occurring (and slowly getting a bit worse) since i bought it 3 years ago. I have not been able to locate where the water enters the house.

House is on slab.

Could new line be run under slab? Or could new line be run to existing exterior hose bib to feed the water system? (i know that sounds totally backwards but maybe work?)

Thanks for the help.

Will be getting a plumber involved after city okay’s their end. (isn’t there some sort of pressure valve on their end also that could be hanging?)
Noticed the water meter body was stamped "5/8", so i’m assuming my main line is 10/16".

There are 2 brass water pipes, one hot, one cold, that used to run to a faucet. The faucet got broke out, leaving the brass pipes there. I do not know how to soldier and I have tried without success. I need to plug these pipes up so they do not leak. Right now I have two garden hoses hose clamped on with a shut off valve on the other end, but it constantly leaks where the three hose clamps are on both. Without calling a plumber I was wondering if there was a way to fix this. My idea was to find a solution to insert into the ends of the pipes to seal it off, but have been unsuccessful in finding something like that. Any new ideas or solutions would be helpful.
it is copper, not brass

We moved into a 40+ year old house and did some remodeling on our own. In the kitchen we installed a new countertop, sink and faucet. The faucet water pressure starts out OK and then dwindles to a trickle after some use. After a bunch of trial and error I figured out that the problem was in the valve of the faucet (forgive me if my terminology is off). It’s a 3-hole Moen faucet (one hole has the handle, one the faucet spout and the third is the sprayer).

Inside the faucet is a brass valve with three holes. One leads to the faucet, one connects to a hose for the sprayer and one is the inlet for the water from the handle. When I disconnect this valve, the water pressure from the inlet hose is very strong, so I know the problem is in the valve itself. I basically take the valve outside and spray it through with a garden hose sprayer. That seems to solve the problem as I then reassemble the faucet and water flows well. But, again, after some use (1-3 weeks?) it eventually slows to a trickle and I have to repeat the process.

I know that the underlying cause is our galvanized piping. We get a lot of the rusty granulated stuff in our aerators and I’m almost sure that is what is gumming up the valve.

OK, given all of that information, is there anything I can do to avoid taking the faucet apart every couple of weeks other than re-piping the whole house? Is there a better faucet/valve that would be more resistant to this clogging?

Any advice appreciated.

I am a screenprinter, and I bought a a pressure washer (1750 PSI Campbell Hausfeld) to clean my screens in the bathtub. However, there is no garden hose faucet in my 3rd floor rental apartment. Is it safe to hook up the washer to my residential supply, AKA my shower? I have an adapter that connects a garden hose to a shower fixture, but I’m not sure if this would mess up my water heater or what. I don’t need the water to be hot.
Hey, thanks for the answers so far! Ok, so I measured my GPM, which was 3 gallons/minute. I also noticed that there was some sputtering, i.e. very brief dips in flow rate, every couple seconds, but this was barely noticeable.

I tried connecting the electric power washer to the shower through a 15 ft. garden hose. Every time I pull the trigger the lights in my house dim significantly (Its a 1600 W machine), and a very powerful spray comes out, but in a big cloud instead of a fan or jet. The shape of the cloud is not dependent on how I adjust the nozzle.

After about 10 seconds of continuous spraying, the power washer really seemed to be struggling, and the RPMs on the motor started getting fearful, and so I shut the thing off quickly and hid – Help!

I don’t know if its a problem with the flow rate, or with the electricity in my house. I didn’t think this thing would be such a crazy beast to operate.
by the way, my shower puts out 3 GPM versus the power washer’s required 1.3 GPM.

I want to install a utility sink near my washer in the basement. I don’t want to run new water lines. My thought was to get two ‘Y’ adapters to attach on the existing spigot, run one hose to the washer and one to the sink. This would be for both hot and cold water.

What I REALLY want to know is, do the make faucets that a garden hose will attach to in order to supply the water? I don’t mean screw a hose to the end of the faucet neck, but from underneath.

If not I suppose what I could do is buy three ‘Y’ connectors, put one on the hot, one on the cold, run them to the sink, then use the third ‘Y’ connector to bring them back together at the sink. I could then get a short hose and use that as the faucet neck and use the valves on the connectors to control the flow/temp.