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Posted on Apr 29, 2009

Apparent flow blockage

I have an American Standard washerless Kitchen Faucet that when we turn on the water, hot or cold, it runs fine for several seconds and then the flow cuts back to less than half normal flow. It's like something is moving and partially blocking the flow. Any ideas?

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I would turn off the water then check to make sure you have good flow up to the faucet itself. If you do then there might be a proplem with the cartridge or diverter. does it have a sprayer? If it has a sprayer head for the spout of the faucet then there will be what the call a check valve inside the spray head itself that canbe removed with a skinny screwdriver or something thin and long

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