kakampers
Past Heartland Ambassador
Like many others, we've experienced low water pressure, etc., from the one-piece kitchen faucet in our 08' Bighorn. Well yesterday while trying to cook dinner (of course, things always happen at the most inopportune times!!), I turned on the water...it came out for a split-second...and then NOTHING! NADA!! Not on cold, not on hot...NOTHING!
Spent the next two hours taking apart the faucet to try and locate the problem. What a nightmare this faucet is...and we're not novices to home repair...just never saw anything more aggravating to disassemble! To get the bronze cover off the brass housing, you actually have to "snake" the sprayer hose out of the unit first, before the bronze cover will lift off...took us awhile to figure that one out.
The point of this is to save some others alot of time! What we discovered, after all this work, is the problem was not in the brass housing at all. It was in the end of the sprayer hose...had we known that we wouldn't have had to take anything apart. If you follow the hose it goes down under the sink and turns back up toward the faucet and attaches to the bottom of one of connections with a fitting. Just remove the hose from that point...in the end of the hose was a small white "valve"...not sure what it does, just know that it apparently stopped working and stopped all water from entering the faucet. Removed it...faucet now works great...good pressure and all!!! Hope this keeps some else from eating a cold dinner...LOL!
Spent the next two hours taking apart the faucet to try and locate the problem. What a nightmare this faucet is...and we're not novices to home repair...just never saw anything more aggravating to disassemble! To get the bronze cover off the brass housing, you actually have to "snake" the sprayer hose out of the unit first, before the bronze cover will lift off...took us awhile to figure that one out.
The point of this is to save some others alot of time! What we discovered, after all this work, is the problem was not in the brass housing at all. It was in the end of the sprayer hose...had we known that we wouldn't have had to take anything apart. If you follow the hose it goes down under the sink and turns back up toward the faucet and attaches to the bottom of one of connections with a fitting. Just remove the hose from that point...in the end of the hose was a small white "valve"...not sure what it does, just know that it apparently stopped working and stopped all water from entering the faucet. Removed it...faucet now works great...good pressure and all!!! Hope this keeps some else from eating a cold dinner...LOL!