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I have flushed the pipes as best as I can and will do the same with the water heater. I haven't seen much come out of any of the pipes with the flushing, but I know there's more of this stuff in them. We do have extremely hard water (25 grains per gallon) so maybe it is just that. I added a...

I recently had some issues with my hot water system and it was suggested by a plumber that the issue was crossover. This shower valve that I installed during a bathroom remodel 5 years ago was a suspect so I pulled the cartridge out to inspect it for damage. Nothing looked amiss so I put it back...

I guess my photo didn't post so I'll try again. I'm pretty sure this is some kind of pipe lining since it's in ALL of the original pipe in the house. In most places, it's still nicely coating the entire inside surface of the pipe. In some places it's broken free and is flaking in big chunks and...

Ok, the problem has been found! I had another plumber come over and he was also totally stumped, but it was good to have a pro here to walk through everything I had done and know it wasn't something obvious. Based on my attempts to backflush the system, I knew that if I had good flow to where...

No heat trap. Tested again and confirmed the flow coming out of the water heater is good. It's just very slow at the faucets. All pipe in the house is copper. I'm giving up and waiting for the plumber. Hopefully this next one will have a clue!

I checked the flow of hot water coming OUT of the water heater and it appears fine, but I'll try one more time and remove the nipple to check for a heat trap.

1) The cold water is flowing fine. It seemed reduced at first, but I've determined that's just the drop in pressure from 100 psi (with the faulty PRV) to 70 psi (after the PRV rebuild). I can run multiple cold faucets with no substantial drop in flow. 2) The hot water flows at approximately half...

Ok, I tried bypassing the softener, but that made no difference. I get the same 70+ psi static pressure at the washing machine hot hose bib, but it drops to 10 psi when I turn on a hot faucet. If I try to run two hot faucets at the same time, there's almost no flow at all. Clearly a flow...

Never had an explosion! lol. Also have never had the T&P valve on the old WH spit anything that I know of. We've usually kept the WH set pretty high (not all the way to "very hot" but getting there). I know about expansion tanks, but I've never had one.

I installed the WH myself. I've done several of them before, including the one I just replaced, and have never had any problems. Regardless of that and recognizing that things change and I'm not a professional, I still called a local water heater guy who was kind enough to ask me a bunch of...

My softener is provided by a local service and they come out to replace the tank/salt every other week. It's upstream from the WH so I don't understand how sediment from the WH could ever get there to clog it up, but I'll take a look and see.

Ok, good to know about the softener! I'll bypass it and see what happens. There is no expansion tank on the WH. I really appreciate all the help!

Yes, I do have a water softener. If there was a blockage there then I assume I woudn't be getting 70 psi at the WH drain, but I'll bypass the softener just to make sure.

I totally appreciate the info even if I have no idea how to actually calculate for all the GPM, etc! I didn't think the new hoses could be the issue either, but just trying to provide as much info as possible since this is such a head-scratcher.

Thanks for the reply! The cold pressure also seems low, but it's not as dramatic as the hot. You are correct about the static pressure. The WH drain reads 70 psi with no water flowing anywhere. It drops to 60 psi when I run hot water from a tap. I'll need to check if that same pressure drop...

Hi all, I'm now to these forums so thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm totally stumped (and so was the plumber I called out) so I'm hoping you guys might be able to point me in another direction. Sorry for the long post, but This has been a multi-level issue. Here's what I've been...