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Alright. Had a huge plumbing leak. Major nightmare major fun with the old torchy torch underground
but wanted to show you afterwards. I went and changed the aerators and let me show you
why. See inside the aerator. What happens is sometimes soil from the line gets into
these aerators and than just clogs everything up. You can see all the soil just blocking
it. These particular aerators are 1.5 gallon per minute. So they already have you know
a pretty low flow and all that sand in there just blocking it off restricted the flow quite
a bit. So a good idea after a major plumbing repair if you suspect there is sand in the
line. It's a good idea to change out all the aerators and also to check inside the shower
head screen. So that's what I did. I was able to clean out the shower head screen. You can
actually clean out these aerators also but they are cheap enough. It is probably better
to just replace them. But anyway with the shower heads I just was able to clean them
out. Take them apart and clean out the screens and clean out at the flow restrictor. I have
got shower heads with a wand so. So on the shower head I will show you on this side.
This is where the flow restrictor is. You can clean this out and than where this attaches
to the neck. That little screen there. You can pull that out and clean that out. That
makes everything run nice and smooth. Much better water pressure. Not like that. Good
to go.