What the?

[SeaCat]

Ever since I moved into this place the water pressure in the bathroom sink was barely enough to brush ones teeth with. You couldn't wash your hands, we had to go out and use the kitchen sink for that.

This afternoon I was feeling curious and more than a bit irritated so I decided to check into this. The problem had to be limited to this sink and it's plumbing as the water pressure at all other water outlets was just fine. I decided to check the easiest thing first. (Always a good choice when troubleshooting.) I took the filtercap off the bottom of the faucet and turned on the water again. Out came a blast of water as well as a bunch of debri's that looked like rust. Well that was promising, we now had good pressure even though the water came out in a rather wide splatter and not a directed stream. This was telling me the problem was in the filtertrap.

I started cleaning and taking this apart.

The Airaetor was a bit dirty but looked good. Then I pushed out the screen from the very end of the trap and was amazed when not one or even two but a total of six different screens came out. Six Screens? WTF?

Well when I put it back together I forgot to put in five of the screens. (Oops.)

Wonder of wonders I now have plenty of water pressure coming out in a nicely directed stream into the washbasin.

Now that this was done I decided it was a good time to tackjle the shower head. More than half the holes in it seem to be plugged. I unscrewed that and started cleaning it. This time I wasn't surprised by what I found. Our water here is fairly hard and the inside of the shower head had a nice buildup of Calium as well as some rust. I have a cure for this.

Into a bowl went a bit of C.L.R. and the shower head. I let it sit for a bit then started poking out the holes with a piece of metal, back into the C.L.R. it went for a short time to melt those pieces I had just poked out.

I rinsed it then put it back in place. Man that works nice.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Thanx for reminding me. I need to clean out the shower head here, too. Back in a few . . .

 

[Tio_Narratore]

We have a strange CLR advert here...It has a person holding a bowl of CLR up to the shower head to soak it clean of scale. Do you think anyone could hold the bowl up there that long? Do you think anyone would be fool enough to try? Are the producers of CLR afraid to sugeest that one should remove the shower head for cleaning?

 

[TE999]

We have a strange CLR advert here...It has a person holding a bowl of CLR up to the shower head to soak it clean of scale. Do you think anyone could hold the bowl up there that long? Do you think anyone would be fool enough to try? Are the producers of CLR afraid to suggest that one should remove the shower head for cleaning?

We have that same advert here...it's odd and rather impractical. CLR's a must around our house as we have the same calcified water supply from aquifers coursing through prehistoric coral and limestone. I clean our shower heads and faucet filter screens with it once a month. It also removes rust stains from your house paint caused by lawn sprinklers.

In many areas of the state the water from wells and some municipal systems isn't hardly fit to drink...too many minerals.

 

[Weird Harold]

We have a strange CLR advert here...It has a person holding a bowl of CLR up to the shower head to soak it clean of scale. Do you think anyone could hold the bowl up there that long? Do you think anyone would be fool enough to try? Are the producers of CLR afraid to sugeest that one should remove the shower head for cleaning?

Depends on whether the scale is mostly inside the shower head -- like Cat's -- or mostly outside -- as mine tends to accumulate. It only takes about thirty to sixty seconds to loosen the external (cosmetic) scaling but thirty to sixty minutes for internal scaling.

If all you're concerned about is the showerhead looking good, the commercial makes sense.