oh no not again what's with this water pressure
and this time it's both hot and cold oh no
welcome to the channel i'm liz and i'm paul and these are exciting times
to push past fear build confidence and live
amazing and it can be a little bit challenging
to live amazing when you don't have water pressure in your RV or camper
particularly in the kitchen when you're trying to wash dishes
yeah my favorite thing to do around here you know it really
is i mean i can't believe how you really like to wash dishes
i do it's very for whatever reason it's very relaxing for me there are actually
times where he will go to wash the pan before he sits down to eat
right so he cooked steak the other night and he had to wash that frying pan
before we could sit down and eat you know
while the steaks were resting i take care of my castle
but this video is about low water pressure in your RV now if you're a long time
viewer you probably remember we did a video where we didn't have
hot water pressure now today's problem is a little
different it's a little interesting because we have good pressure
all throughout the house in the shower and the bathroom but
not in the kitchen yeah the kitchen faucet is just dribbling out
you can't do anything with it and this information will help you no matter what
kind of camper you have now we happen to have a grand design
310 gk fifth wheel so 2020 we've had it for about seven months
but this kind of hands-on stuff you pretty much have to do
if you're camping full-time or even for the weekends you
pretty much have to be a hands-on person yeah and and
i'm not a plumber i never worked as a plumber i did some basic plumbing around
my house when i had my sticks in bricks house yeah i don't
claim to be an expert here but this is really not that intimidating
we're going to take you through step by step because it's a little bit of a
mystery but we'll break it down and show you you know how to solve this
so just kind of sit back as we show you the different things that we
tried all right so the first thing we did
was what we we went to the bathroom and we saw that we had good water out of the
faucet and out of the shower yeah so that told me that we had good house
supply there was no problem at the faucet outside the supply line
and it's getting through the nautilus and
all that without any restrictions yeah and the nautilus is our water
diverter system and different campers have
different systems some have no systems we thought well you know if
you're in a house you know there's like that screen or that end of the faucet
that sometimes gets skunked up and ours does not come apart but we soaked
it in vinegar right the very first thing we tried and
what was the result of that no chips no change so then we thought
now if you've watched our recent video you know that we had an
issue with the island and the island collapsed yeah yeah and we
thought that when we put that back together
that i thought there was a possibility that one of the lines got
smashed i took the floor panel out of the island to check the hoses check the
pecs lines and what did you find out they were fine
they were fine so check that one off the list yeah so the next
thing that we did was we looked at the dishwasher supply line yeah since i was
in there the the hose that they put in if you if
you get the dishwasher um option in this thing which we don't
have we don't have it but this is my dishwasher but the
hose is there so i figure well let's see what kind of pressure we have at the
hose so i took the plug they they put in the
end and turned the valve on and and and of course we had shut the water
off outside already um that's key yeah you don't want to do
this with with the water on outside you want to make sure the water's off and
and and you've cleared the pressure in the line open a faucet in the bathroom
or open the faucet in the sink uh to to get rid
of all the the residual pressure in the lines and
then you turn it back on outside then you send somebody outside while the
other person's in here and with a bucket with that hose in the bucket
and you turn the water back on and see what kind of pressure you have
and we have really good pressure from the dishwasher line
so the next step was to actually pull the hose out
that goes up into the faucet yeah the supply lines to the faucet there's of
course a hot and cold and we took those off and did basically
the same thing okay turn it off turn it off
and that was like a fire hose i mean that was some serious pressure there
i didn't see it but i got soaked i saw the results when i came back
we soaked underneath there so then uh so you decided to go ahead and take the
faucet apart because it had to be somewhere somewhere in the faucet
there's some kind of blockage or restriction or something
yeah given what we had found with the hot water problem that we had
early on i kind of expected to find a chunk of
chunks of this of this lime deposit yeah in the in the
system somewhere would that be enough to restrict it
that's what this is a restrictor oh yeah so you can
just take the whole thing out so this is a restrictor pretty sure
that's what it looks like to me kind of cloggy
and it's clogged it is oh jesus yeah there's the problem
and it turns out there's this like uh restrictor thing
yeah that was gunked up yeah i'm surprised any water was getting through
it yeah i mean you could all you saw was
white when you look down in there and so we scraped all of that out and
and uh put it back together so does every faucet
have like a somewhere in the line it has a restrictor not just on the end
in the line usually there's a restrictor in the line somewhere i
like i said i'm not a plumber so i don't know i can't say a hundred percent of
the time if you've got a low water restriction
and you've cleaned your nozzle as best you can and it's still a problem
then you have to start looking downstream
for the restriction and that's a good place to look so
if you are new to rv life know that water pressure
is a pretty common problem and you know there are
talks about how do you take a good shower in your rv because it can be hard
to find good water pressure some of the showers that automatically come with the
rv or low water pressure and just depending on which campground
you go to it can be an issue and water pressure
that's too high can also be an issue as that can
damage the lines inside your rv that's why we recommend you get a good
water pressure regulator there are cheaper ones than this
but we have found them to be inaccurate it's worth it to protect your rig we
actually have two whole house filters before the water
gets to the nautilus it's going through two
filters they do make a sediment filter that you would put
even before that so i'm thinking that we need one of those right because that's
the other thing with all the travel you never know what kind of quality water
you're going to get you never know from different
campgrounds and often early in the season
there's more likely for sediment if they haven't been running that water for a
long time or maybe you get on a campsite that they haven't used for a while
you're also more likely to get some sediment i mean a practice that i do
uh before i hook our hose up is i've turned the water on and let it run for a
few seconds to clear anything that's that's right out there i've seen some
brown rusty water from doing i've seen some nasty water coming out of faucets
iron pipes yeah so tell me what tools that you used for this and
i know you have a really handy tool for getting that gunk out
what's that called yeah just a pick tool we're gonna put links in the description
i got this thing 30 years ago and it's it's one of the tools that i hope i
never lose so it's a pick set yeah and you can get various kinds the
one i have has one handle with four interchangeable
pick styles they come in various ways i like the one
i have because it's such a compact piece it doesn't take up a lot
of space in the toolbox so what other tools did you use your
dikes i did not use my dice i use i use a pair of channel locks and
that's it and a screwdriver a phillips head screwdriver are there any
other tools if you're going to be working on your plumbing on your rig are
there any other tools that you really should have on board
at all times well if you've got pecs like like most
new rigs it's a good idea to have a pex clamping tool you can get sharp
bites which require no tools at all you just stick
the hose in and and give them a slight tug and
they're they're locked in and they're fine they cost quite a bit
more than the standard fittings that you get
with pex systems and and what i have is a clamping tool so
that i can still use the the cheaper style
fittings and the squeeze clamps there's actually
two different types of squeeze clamps talk to your hardware man yeah go to go
to the hardware store and and they they can show you what you
need or hardware woman yeah there you go
well i'm so glad we got that fixed yeah and especially because today is a
special day it's liz's birthday her 58th birthday
it sure is and i am so glad to reach 58 and see that life just keeps getting
better and better and also i am still younger than you
yeah that's a low bar thank you so much for watching we will see you in the next
video see ya