My new office is in a “Green” building. This is fine, and I wholeheartedly support the concept, but they’ve gone incredibly overboard with the low-flow head on the kitchen sink. We’re talking six-and-a-half-minutes to fill up a coffee pot overboard.
It’s driving everybody insane, we can’t even rinse out the sink properly, and there’s a disgusting pudding beginning to form along the edges.
I’m ready to take one for the team and replace the faucet head, but I can’t get to it. There is some sort of weird lock-up nut on it. You know, the kind that spins and spins when you try to unscrew it.
Normally, this kind of nut has a tiny hole in it, which lines up with another tiny hole in the faucet head, and if you stick a needle through the two holes you can use it to then unscrew the head.
Not so, this one.
So how do I get this $*%^@('n thing off, before my head explodes?
A photo would help; there are a lot of tamper-resistant fasteners out there.
Did you check the aerator? Especially if it’s new construction, it could be plugged up with bits.
ZB - Aha! So the holes could be in the bottom of the head? Thanks, I’ll check that on Monday!
Meme - This is definitely a purposeful thing. Everything in the building is as “green” as possible, and it won several national awards when it was first built. As I said, I’m all for that, and I’ll replace the thing with a reasonably low-flow head, but this is just ludicrous and insupportable.
Did I mention I don’t like it? LOL!
I’m starting to get a sense of that. But, then, i could just be psychic.
Did you complain to the building management?
I know they probably will either just ignore the complaint or just remind you how green (is that green mold?v:D) the building is. However, on principle I’d probably ask once and then do my own “repairs”. That keeps them from saying “we would have fixed it” if they notice your work.
I’m fairly well certain this would just give them notice of who to yell at. Management companies are very defensive of their national awards!
Maybe the shutoff valve under the sink has been turned down.
My SIL had a really low-flowing kitchen faucet that she had complained about for a while. The first time I came over, I reached under the sink and opened the shutoff valves more. She was amazed.
It’s too bad she didn’t listen to me when I had suggested that a couple of months prior.