Plumber installed sink, pipes, dishwasher, icemaker lines, not working

[taylorsmommie]

I need some advice here. I had a plumber here today. We are doing a kitchen remodel so he totally put in new pipes, shutoff valves, etc. under the sink, along with installing a dishwasher and running lines to the icemaker and water dispenser in the fridge. We have no water pressure from the sink, the water dispenser in the fridge just drips, and when I started the washing machine, which is in the kitchen near the sink, it seemed like the pipes made strange noises. There is also no cold water coming out of the sink, only hot. He has to come back tomorrow to figure it out, but does anyone know what the cause of this might be? We didn't know about the water dispenser problem before he left, he was blaming it on something in our faucet restricting the flow of water, but I don't buy that. Could there be air in the lines?

 

[LiQuId]

I would wonder what kind of plumber doesnt check for water after installing, and also wonder how he would've tested the drainage without water present. have you tried opening the angle stops ? could be just as simple as that, that you do have hot water suggests that the angle stops are closed, also on the icemaker line did he install a box with a shutoff valve? this is not something that could be affected by an airlockm the air would be pushed out of the lines when you opened a fixture.

 

[taylorsmommie]

Thanks for your reply. Is an angle stop the shut-off valve? He installed new ones that if I remember right are two in one type of thing, but I can't remember what he called it. They are open. He came back and switched the hot and cold lines, they were backwards. Everything is working now except we still have no water pressure. He is blaming it on our faucet, which is a year and a half old and was working fine before the remodel. It's a Price Phister t-526 Hanover and it has one lever that controls both hot and cold water. When you lift it up in the middle position, it has the most water pressure, even though it's still not the same as it was before. If you move it either right or left, the pressure goes down. I called PF and they said it was the ceramic cartridge, so we ordered one of those and put it in, that did not fix the problem. Our cabinet installer was here yesterday and he said he thought it was in the black line that goes from the faucet to the control lever that turns the water on, I wish I knew a more technical name for it. The plumber has to come back because he put in new white pipes that go to the drain in the floor of the cabinet, and those are showing a little water pooling up near the threads. The cabinet guy also said that he thought that problem would be coming from a backup in the pipe that goes out to the sewer because there isn't enough water pressure going down the drainage pipe from the sink to cause anything like that. I'm just getting very frustrated with the whole thing, I just want it working and don't want to spend a fortune to get it working.

 

[LiQuId]

hmm, Well what I can say is price phister is a much disliked brand by many plumbers myself included as I find they are poor quality. That being said, there is no good reason for it to not work after like it did before. Try unscrewing the airator from the tip of the nozzle, like most threads it unscrews counter clockwise ( if you were looking at it from the sink up or straight at it ) these often have debris in them after a re model, and could be caused by wood shavings, drywall dust etc getting into it. unscrew and check the pressure, IF there is anything in the lines it should be able to be shot out with out the airator in place.

The angle stop is the shutoff valve, you find these on kitchen sinks, bathroom lavs and toilets also.

I am unsure about the "black line" I am not sure what this is ( pictures would help ) but make sure any lines you can see are free from kinks.

these "white pipes" you speak of, are they drainage pipes? or potablle water pipes?

there is enough watter pressure going down the drain to cause pooling, it could be a missed ring in a drainage slip joint, should be a simple fix.

Without seeing pictures I can only use imagination to configure and problem solve... I am sceptical of your plumbers ability, as I've yet to cross a line that was not easilly recognized and fixed immediatelly and BEFORE i left the job... and the last one I remember crossing occurred over 10 years ago when i was still a rookie.

I understand your frustrations as I respond to many calls of this nature, work done by boom time "plumbers" who are not as compitent as they would like to believe... again, that being said I dont want to crap all over your plumber... we all make mistakes, just make sure they fix them, and it should not cost you for their time to fix these problems, the lines should not have been crossed in the first place and if they wont eat the bill for their time to come out and un-cross them then I would seriously not use them ever again... that is shoddy.