Well... Best figure some things out.

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I have company coming this afternoon.  But the cave is in poor shape.  And, I have ongoing projects adding to the confusion of my home.  Hmm, perhaps I will set up an outdoor patio area.  There are two spots that work well, depending on the sun, but I think the side area should do.  I'll just, after removing the faucet, get that arranged.  The bathroom is in pretty good shape, I have gotten that, mostly, clean, and kept it that way.  A sweep and a mop, and a bit of tidying, should add a final touch just in case it is needed.

I did check the faucet.  The screen, on this one, came off quite easily, unlike the other two I have tried.  Both the others required tools, and perhaps my poor choice in tools or because they were poorly designed, destroyed the caps.  This time, the hand was all I needed.  Crusty, but not the problem.  I am rather surprised.  First, I do have a water softener.  Second, this faucet is only about a year old and has rarely been used due to it being slow running, nearly from the start.  That is probably part of the problem.  Looks like I will have to remove.  However, it isn't all of the problem.  While crusty, it wasn't blocked.  And the water regulator was right there, and came out with the screen.  It is not blocked, or not fully.  Even with the screen and regulator out, there is zero flow.  Whatever the block is, it is below the screen and above the valves.  So...  I have a bit of work ahead of me.

I will try to get the flexhoses out, check those (if they are very unlikely to be the problem).  If they aren't the problem, then I will try to get the faucet out before it is time to set up the patio area.  Then I'll shower, groom, and dress, and prepare for company.  If I still have a bit of time, I will begin tearing the faucet down, looking for where the problem might be.  If I do find that chunks of flotsom or whatnot, I may check for a prescreen for the flexhoses, maybe on both sides?  Something small enough to keep whatever out and easy enough to clean from time to time.  Removing, cleaning, and reinstalling a faucet is no fun task for a mostly dead guy.  Removing a screen, just beyond the valve, so long as the valve is dependable, is easy enough.

I have considered putting in a filter, a whole house water filter.  I'd want it downstream of anything that might be replaced.  Not sure that would work if it is just that the pipes are old and let off bits though.  And it is odd that the only problem is with newer components, like the sink and kitchen faucets, but doesn't seem to trouble really old items, like the sink in the old bathroom faucet or old spare, porch, faucet.  They are redesigning these things to be more "water efficient", a mandate, one they don't have functional yet.  Oh, hey, I'm all for using water efficiently.  I'm not all for doing that in such a way that I can't use the systems at all.  Price doesn't even seem to be a factor.  Yeah, no.  I don't trust my government to do this.  It should leave these things to us because all they end up doing is teaching us to not trust them, and to undo everything they just mandated, ostensibly, for our benefit.  Then again, I wonder how much trouble they cause just to develop, further, the broken window paradigm under which they seem enthralled.  Our government, at this time, is being run by 60's and 70's radicals.  They weren't all that bright then, now they are old too.  Some things just don't age well.

Well... best get to it.  I'll need to take a shower around 15:00, giving me a couple hours to tinker freely.  Later.