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water pressure Can air in kitchenpipes cause a faucet to catastrophically fail?

For about two weeks, I heardhave been hearing a vibration and loud noise very time I turnedturn on the kitchen faucet, mostly on the hot water side, if. If I turnedturn to cold water it stopped andstops but periodicly when running between hot and cold, the noise would come backreturns. I did reportreported it to my building mainenance and when that person came up to check, at that time that he turned the water on it did not make that sound and he said its probably a washer, which I said it can't be, theirthere is air in the pipes. Several days later I was washing dishinddishes and the faucet just blew up and erupted in my hands and, completely camecoming apart and shooting that water out like a geyser. I would like to know if this is that a common problems in a kitchen faucet to erupt like thatfaucets. I feltfeel like the cause could be by some pressure build up inside the wall pipes.

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water pressure in kitchen faucet

For about two weeks, I heard vibration and loud noise very time I turned on the kitchen faucet mostly on the hot water side, if I turned to cold water it stopped and periodicly when running between hot and cold, the noise would come back. I did report it to my building mainenance and when that person came up to check at that time that he turned the water on it did not make that sound and he said its probably a washer, which I said it can't be, their is air in the pipes. Several days later I was washing dishind and the faucet just blew up and erupted in my hands and completely came apart shooting that water out like a geyser. I would like to know is that a common problems in a kitchen faucet to erupt like that. I felt the cause could be by some pressure build up inside the wall pipes.

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Can air in pipes cause a faucet to catastrophically fail?

For about two weeks, I have been hearing a vibration and loud noise very time I turn on the kitchen faucet, mostly on the hot water side. If I turn to cold water it stops but periodicly when running between hot and cold, the noise returns. I reported it to my building mainenance and when that person came up to check, at that time that he turned the water on it did not make that sound and he said its probably a washer, which I said it can't be, there is air in the pipes. Several days later I was washing dishes and the faucet just blew up and erupted in my hands, completely coming apart and shooting water out like a geyser. I would like to know if this is a common problems in a kitchen faucets. I feel like the cause could be by some pressure build up inside the wall pipes.

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water pressure in kitchen faucet

For about two weeks, I heard vibration and loud noise very time I turned on the kitchen faucet mostly on the hot water side, if I turned to cold water it stopped and periodicly when running between hot and cold, the noise would come back. I did report it to my building mainenance and when that person came up to check at that time that he turned the water on it did not make that sound and he said its probably a washer, which I said it can't be, their is air in the pipes. Several days later I was washing dishind and the faucet just blew up and erupted in my hands and completely came apart shooting that water out like a geyser. I would like to know is that a common problems in a kitchen faucet to erupt like that. I felt the cause could be by some pressure build up inside the wall pipes.

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