Pressure-assist cartridge nearing end of life. Not urgent, but the shock loading is what eventually costs you a supply connection.

This is most common in homes built since 2000. PEX on slab, 200 amp service, builder-grade equipment that reaches end of life across a whole street at once.

You can handle this one yourself. No call needed.

Related

• Pressure drops at every fixture at once
• Every drain in the house is slow, not just one
• Rusty water only on the first draw
• The main shutoff will not turn
• Sewer backs up in the lowest fixture after heavy rain
• Sewer smell from a room nobody uses
• Hose bib with no vacuum breaker
• Stain on the ceiling directly under a bath

Back to Plumbing.

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