We have a septic and well system.
We washed dishes in our double sink and soap suds came up the other side. The weird thing is that soap suds then came out of the cold water faucet but not the hot. (It is a single lever faucet.) I ran the disposal to rid the second sink of suds. I then ran the cold water for a few minutes. No more suds out of the faucet now. But why did we get soap suds coming out of the cold water line? Thank you.

Suds came up through the sink drain or the faucet?

It may have come out of the sink but not the faucet, Thanks.

John

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No more suds out of the faucet now. But why did we get soap suds coming out of the cold water line?

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Unless you have a cossconnection, ( and it doesn't appear so,) this is impossible. Perhaps some soap suds got on your aerator but I doubt very much it came out of the faucet- Regards, Tom

We have a brand new house, and our faucet "seems" to emit suds when you first turn it on (i.e. it looks soapy). However, it is not real soap suds. If I capture the sudsy looking water in my coffee carafe and then wait awhile, the sudsy looking water turns to regular looking water. My conclusion is that the water is getting oxygenated somehow prior to coming out of the faucet... and this makes it look soapy. My guess is that it is a harmless effect (albeit strange). Interestingly, we have a revese osmosis water faucet right beside it, but it does not emit sudsy looking water. The same is true of all the other faucets in the house--no sudsy looking water except from the kitchen faucet!

Hello Jdbuilder,

You have added your thread a 2 years old post, please start your own thread (new Thread) that it will be on top of the page and will have more visibility and the experts will respond to you, Thanks.

John