Death By a Thousand Cuts

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Originally Posted by glatt

After successfully going through all that trouble, the next step of cleaning the grit out of the aerator is so effortless, why would you set the aerator aside where it would get lost? A faucet without an aerator splatters water all over the place. I'd rather have restricted flow than that splatter. I just don't see how you could get into that situation and stay there.

I mean, it's only an aerator, but wtf?

I'll admit it, when I was younger I removed and subsequently threw out an aerator. We have hard water around here, and the aerators don't get blocked with rinse-able sand, but calcium and lime buildup. They're a pain to clean if you don't have a bottle of CLR-equivalent handy. And when they're clogged, they don't just restrict flow, they cause that same splattery horribleness that an un-aerated flow does, only perhaps moreso. So I tossed it, and said to myself, "I'll go to Home Depot and get another one of those..." Except ultimately we replaced the whole faucet fixture before I managed to get around to it.

Now we have a whole-house water filter, so it doesn't happen nearly as often, and when it does I know how to use the CLR.