Sink Faucet
November 8th, 2009
What are the white flakes in our sink faucet?
Our kitchen sink faucet keeps spraying in crazy directions, within a day or two of cleaning out the aerator. Today we took it off again and found lots of little white flakes. Is this calcium, or something else? My husband says it only happens with hot water and must be related to the water heater.
Sounds like hard water, but I’ve never seen that at my mother’s house and she has very hard water.
Look inside the toilet tank. if the bowl has deposits as a ring or the tank has a tan deposit, it’s hard water. If you’re on a city or county water system, it’s doubtful it’s hard water. If you’re on a supplied water system, you may call the water department and they can tell you the Ph value of the water and whether this is normal or not. I don’t think it’s normal.
I think you have something in the system that’s causing it. Overly hot water? Mineral build up that’s flaking off in the pipes? If it’s minerals, it’ll be hard and flaky. It could also be deposits in the pipes that are breaking off. Could be iron rust.
Try taking off the aerator and soaking it in hydrogen peroxide. If you see bubbling, it’s mineral deposits.
On the plus side, mineral water is generally good for you. My grandparents had extremely hard water and lived well into their 70s.
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