plumbing/pump trouble shooting help? Banging sounds in Kitchen

Shallow water pump, source is water fed from cistern filled manually from hauling city water in tank in pickup truck bed.

The pump is "direct jet", no pressure tank. Supposedly self priming, but it needs primed when we run out of water (not uncommon).

Steel/aluminum? cistern has some rust spots and I've cleaned fragments of whatever from the kitchen faucet screen before. A few months ago the hot water line in that sink started reduced flow but cold was fine. Now since last priming after running out of water last week the sink jerks and stutters water flow along with banging noise in the pump room bunker with both hot and cold water lines.

Neither showers, toilets, bathroom sink, dishwasher or washing machine have the same effect.

Not sure if it's relevant but it seems the city water here is not soft. Glasses get cloudy and faucet/shower heads get a bit of white stuff on them (I've only ever known soft water).

 

Thank you guys! I googled water hammer after spotted owl mentioned it, seems to fit. Just much faster pulse/bang than the videos. I'll see what I can do, IIRC SS lines from copper to faucet down there. Fingers crossed! I'm going to wait for a break in from the freezing temps because Murphy's Law is always lurking.

 

I started on the sink today, you won't believe it, started with the faucet head, took the spray adapter off, and the water hammer is gone! I put the orig head fixture back on. No sediment on the screen, must be hard water build up inside. Thanks again guys!

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Aerator, that was the word I used "head" for.

 

Thanks, Like a round foot tall canister sediment filter? Where would this hook into the the water system?

 

Alrighty then

Isolated the hammering to the kitchen sink faucet, some kind of malfunction between the faucet and the sink sprayer. Pull the sprayer up and put it back down and it stops (til next time).

Thought I smelled mildew/wet dirt/mold from the utilities room (back wall to sink and trap door to plumbing bunker below with dirt floor). Doubting myself as my expert crazy awesome ability to smell everything and identify any smell has been gone since Covid several years ago. I was thinking the junction from both bathroom vents to the exhaust pipe fell or worse the aluminum cistern had a leak. Nope. I was reaching around under the sink cabinet tonight for a squeege and felt water in the very back.

So, we need a new sink faucet, to be honest I never liked this one so no love lost. It'll be interesting installing the new one since I, nor WWW can do it by ourself anymore, and we'll likely need to get kiddo under there wrenching too LOL.

I'll put an alert on a sale site for deals and....... We'll see.

 

What a neat relationship Thank you we'll figure it out when the time comes. Worse case scenario she can everything theaded ect. behind the sink bowls and we can go in after
to tighten. I just hate being on my back in there with arms up doing stuff by feel.

 

Opinions on a pull down sprayer? The kind with sprayer & hose is the faucet reach.

Do you like the pull down? When intact does the water splash off basin up to you/sink edge (which I have to lean against to use the sink and shirt gets wet).

 

I love my pull down. In fact just put one in the GF’s house. Just don’t cheap out on the brand. Sometimes you pay for it on the front end and other times you pay for it through outs it’s life….

 

My sink is similar to this, and exact regarding holes. Currently holes are faucet, handle, sprayer, and filtered water dispense. Problem is between sprayer and faucet.

 

I'm looking at this one, says it can be mounted without deck plate as my sink won't accomidate a deck plate. So holes would be faucet w/ handle, soap dispenser, cap hole #3 and 4th is filtered water dispenser.

www.lowes.com/pd/Pfister-Masey-Stainless-Steel-2-handle-Pull-down-Kitchen-Faucet-with-Deck-Plate-and-Soap-Dispenser-Included/1003263758