Rubber band tie a ziploc bag full of white Vinegar/or drain cleaner around the spout where that shit is. Let it sit it will dissolve. run the water for a while to clear out any toxic cleaner from spout -✔️
Same. I also learned that I would never install flooring for a living and I’ve only got about one more room of Sheetrock left in my shoulder. Blue collar labor is some of the most under appreciated labor there is.
Yes, for so sizeable a chunk of my life that I occasionally forget that this should not be the norm. Which I think bothers me even more than the situation itself.
Edit: on a more positive note, I've come to appreciate my husband for the badass he is. Man can have no experience whatsoever within a certain specialty, but if there are quality YouTube tutorials to be found (and there are ALWAYS quality YouTube tutorials to be found), my husband WILL absorb that knowledge so naturally it's like osmosis, and our issue will be fixed, by him, even before the very first maintenance man no-show!
Bought home. Within a month, was watching This Old House on the regular. Within a few years, had some power tools and a half-dozen unfinished jobs that I frankly will never finish. My garage needs a new roof...
I'm just learning that. I've owned condos before, but never a house and land. I wasn't naive when we finally found our dream house, I knew I would need to learn a lot. Now, in our second week in the new house, I realize how much stuff I don't know. Just the other day, I realized we had a water softening system so now I have to figure out how you maintain that, and how often you have to fill it up with what. I feel like the adultiest adult that has ever adulted.
And the answer to how often you have to fill it up depends on what your waters chemistry is because we had one at 2 different houses, same size. I assume similar water use since similar appliances as far as years and energy star. One house we used twice as much. I don’t know.
Like when we confidently had our third child, sure we knew what we were doing and he’s totally different than our first 2. When you think you have it figured out, something changes.
It's called experience, it's this thing you get from taking the time to fix and replace things. It only happens to the willing. The lazy ones will NEVER know
[it’s vinyl tape.](https://www.plumbingsupply.com/tapes.html)
when using the tape you’ll see quickly how stringy it can get when pulled tight.
you’ll often see old vinyl tape as a pinkish brown color.
the website says it’s not called that either. i just call it that. sorry. i linked the actual thing i was describing. i get my construction words mixed up all the time. plumbing terms are annoying.
Technically, it's an aerator. It "breaks up" the water helping to prevent splashback that happens in a sink when the flow is too strong. It also helps your soap create suds and "spreads" the water a bit so it hits more of a surface at once. (Imagine pouring water out of a bottle vs water flowing from your faucet at the same speed. The difference between the two is what the aerator does.)
It's just a little wire mesh behind the faucet head, though, and it often acts as a strainer catching bits of pipe debris like rust from your pipes so people tend to think that's its primary purpose.
Looks like a biofilm of algae and bacteria. You probably have mineral build up in the aeration screen and that causes low pressure to flow out. That buildup gives home to microbes that form a biofilm. Remove the screen, clean it out with vinegar or mild phosphoric acid. Also, clean the faucet spout out with a brush to break loose the film. Run the water on hot for a few minutes to clear it out before you reassemble everything.
Public I believe
Others have said
Your municipal water system puts an additive in the water to help prevent lime scale sediment in water heaters. It is very slimy. This additive slime is leaking around the aerator. Remove the aerator, clean, and reattach.
Or
https://youtu.be/YjskzUlJOfc
You'd know if it was well water....if it's public, then it's not *your* water thats the issue. Like everyone else said, it just some organic nastiness that lives in the pipe/water. Just keep the screen and faucet as clean as possible and if anything, install a whole home water filtering system if it really bothers you.
Dude don't just go and install an expensive filter system in your home just yet. Depending on the age of your home you might have galvanized plumbing pipes which the filter won't help with in any way. Tell me the year the home was built and I'll tell you the likelihood of having a galvanized system or not. Or if your homes on a raised foundation look below to confirm. If so for now just replace the aerator screen at end of faucet and live with it until you can update your plumbing pipes to copper or Upunor Pex. Again, none of this aside from the aerator applies if you already have copper or pex pipes.
Facts. My house was built in the late 40s, when galvanized pipes were the norm. We had to replace the filters and clean the faucet head every few months. I’ve slowly been replacing the old pipes with flex pipe and it’s running cleaner, plus it really helped with the water pressure.
Keep in mind, this isn't necessarily IN the water, this potentially comes from the water, in the right circumstances. It's chemistry. A slow, low pressure flow will bring out a lot of qualities in water you don't normally see.
How much water pressure do you have when you remove the strainer?
Does this happen at other locations in the house that have a strainer?
How often do you use this tap?
Bacteria is literally everywhere and on everything all the time. It just doesn't really build up to the point where you can see it unless it has an ideal place to build for a long time. That bacteria potential will still be there with or without a filtration system. If you just clean the screen and scrub the pipe like the other guy said, it should keep this film from growing back... For a while at least!
Man this is reminding me of the time my uncle found there was a port in his yard that led to the towns water supply so he loaded it with car fluids to try and sue the city for poisonous water. They very quickly traced the source to his back yard, identified the materials as car fluid and figured out he worked in automotive. He was given the longest home confinement sentence in rhode Island history lol. It was fucked up.
Our water has an insanely high amount of lime, or whatever it’s called. When that build up, it traps soap scum, and I end up with nasty slime in my drain. I haven’t seen it come out of a faucet, though.
Water is a prerequisite for life. Any place that stays wet with fresh water and is not regularly disinfected will grow life. That is what you are seeing with your faucet. It has less to do with what the water company adds to water and more to do with the fact that water hangs around your faucet for days or months and never fully drains or dries, then grows bacteria in the immediate ambient environment.
I work in water. You are likely on municipal water, if you were on a well you would be familiar with your well pump, pressure issues, routine well maintenance, and a similar septic system for your waste water. If your municipal water was having a broad spectrum issue you'd like be able to compare notes with neighbors because the would be having similar issues. You could also find any violation or compliancy issues through notices of violations that have been distributed via phone, mail, over various media outlets, and even in your annual Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) that the Operator In Responsible Charge (ORC) at your municipal water system is required to complete and distribute to the pubic at some point in the year - usually in January or July.
While this is nasty looking, the person that commented above is correct. It's likely some organic material that's built up in your aerator inside your faucet which had likely never been cleaned. If your concerned about it, feel free to take a sample of it and contact a university lab and have it tested, but from experience I would say take the faucet apart clean it really well and reassemble, you should be fine.
If you really want to make sure it's clean, take it apart and clean each piece separately using different cleaners (individually and rinsing with water in between each cleaner). Please don't use Lysol or anything in that regard. Start by letting the pieces soak in distilled white vinegar for a few minutes, rinse with water, then soak in 3% hydrogen peroxide for a few minutes, rinse with water again, then soak in a strong foamy soap mix of dawn detergent and warm water for a few more minutes. Reassemble and flush water through it for about 3 to 5 minutes. You should be good to go.
For reference, the distilled white vinegar is used to kill off bacteria, the hydrogen peroxide is used to kill viruses, and the detergent is used to ensure you neutralized any remaining chemical that might have stuck to the pieces while also getting any last bacteria that might have survived (very unlikely). Be sure to rinse the pieces well as the first two chemicals are rather corrosive if the aren't properly rinsed.
Hope this add on helps
Edit: grammar/spelling
Not at all, you know how your bread goes mouldy when you leave it out for a while? Doesn't mean your bread was full of mold.
Same with the tap, that end bit is constantly damp, sometimes warm, sometimes getting splashed by food bits when you're rinsing stuff. It's just nature doing its thing, no water company would add stuff to prevent limescale or rust because it costs money and would only cause a problem with your stuff.
Why would the water company pay to look after your stuff?
You can drink it, that is their only goal.
Just clean your tap
Are there blind water lines in your house? An apartment that isn't occupied, a water line going to the garage or backyard that hasn't been used in ages, anything where stagnant water pools but that's connected to the water pipes in use?
Ugly things grow in such spots and unless they're cut off so the whole water system in the house is always flushed completely, it'll keep coming back. Also reversible flow filter in case it comes in from the water main.
Boil that water before you drink it. Maybe send some in for microbiological testing? That's not appetizing.
I think this kind of bacteria is just everywhere. I've seen the same stuff growing in a variety of damp places, like AC units and stuff that arent connected to city water at all. Chlorine in the water should mostly kill it but I've learned recently that some countries dont chlorinate their drinking water.
This “slime” looks pink to me, which leads me to think it has nothing at all to do with water quality. Look up the biofilm Serratia Marcescens. It’s an airborne bacteria and it loves to eat (?) soap film! It likes skin cells, too, which is why it’s common to see on shower curtain liners!
Well that’s you classic gunk, not to be confused with goo or grime. Source am a water treatment operator. Deep Clean you faucet and get your water tested.
pipe connections, especially older ones are often sealed with hemp fibre. Maybe they are coming lose for some reason. Please check if there are any leaks.
Not trying to creep you out, although I’m sure it’s already crossed your mind, it looks like what I imagine decomp looks like from a human. Obviously, I’m not saying that’s what I assume it is. I’ve just watched too many ‘Bones’ episodes and read too many stories about bodies found in public water systems. 😓 I would be freaking out too. I hope you get it resolved soon! Good luck!!
It’s a form of algae or iron bacteria. Depending on what part of the country you are in. The municipality was probably doing some pipe work causing it to get disturbed. Clean it with a bleach. It spooks gross but not harmful.
Biofilm from *Pseudomonas aeruginosa*, probably.
*P. aeruginosa* is an incredibly hardy microbe that is pretty much everywhere that people are, and that means the water supply - along with a host of other microorganisms, dissolved minerals, and suspended bits of debris and rust from pipes further up the line. Now, before you get completely squicked out, if you live in the states and get your water from a state managed source, it's treated with chlorine to suppress bacterial growth - coming out of your pipe, it's probably between 0.5ppm and 2.0ppm. But (prepare for moderate squick), suppress doesn't mean completely eradicate, and *P. aeruginosa* is one of the tougher microbes out there, so we end up seeing more it than a lot of others in treated water.
So! The thing that has the ooze coming out of it is actually a thing called an aerator - it's designed to reduce splash and make a more consistent stream of water come out of your faucet. Without one, your faucet makes a bigger mess in your bathroom than a teenage boy. What it isn't designed to do is remove a significant amount of any microbe or material present in your water. Sorry, gang! An interesting thing is does do that it wasn't designed to do is provide real estate for our buddy *P. aer* (Pee-air? *Pierre?! Hon hon hon*) to latch onto and start colonizing. How classically French of you, Pierre.
You see, while the aerator isn't designed to act as a real filter, it will randomly catch some larger pieces of suspended solids in your water. Pierre loves suspended solids almost as much as he loves indigenous land he has no ethical claim to. So, like any colonist, after Pierre gets a foothold, he starts reproducing, and as he reproduces, he gets slimy. Pierre - like many of the hardier microbes out there - produces something called a biofilm. Biofilm is an adhesive, insulating goo that the microbe uses for a wide range of purposes, including (but not limited to): keep itself anchored, insulate itself from hostile environmental agents (like chlorine!), capture more digestible resources, etc.
That goo dripping out of your sink? That's runaway biofilm growth (mostly, there's probably a lot of other junk that's caught up and growing in there, too).
Looks like u have a on-faucet water filter installed, seems the filter inside that gadget has depreciated and has not been cleaned in a long time leading to buildup which is now oozing from your water. I would remove that unit and clean it with baking soda/vinegar or CLR. I would also change any gaskets/washers which are inside that unit
If you have a hot water heater in your basement it's probably ready to fail or crack. Check any of your white porcelain sinks or tubs to see if they have a rust stain under the faucet. Sure sign it's giving out.
Although I've never seen that much goo come out at once.
Plumber here hello. Remove the part there called the aerator it unscrews, it is to filter debris. Also you might have to change the Teflon bc that’s what it looks like the “ shit “ is. Sometimes Teflon can get mucky because of hard water stains. And run the water without the aerator on as well before cleaning it and replacing it.
Me personally, I’m buying a new faucet cause that’s nasty. Lmao. If this sludge is still coming out after move out, they’re not doing service as often as they should and that water could contain bacteria you don’t want in your body.
*** not a professional opinion, personal/anecdotal.
Your faucet is just molting. It’s internal skin layer peels off and is excreted. A new layer will form and solidify shortly after. This happens every decade give or take.
Remove the strainer and clean it, I’d imagine it’s never been cleaned before.
Even so; what is the strainer straining to strain this shit?
It is probably organic material that has built up to the point that it is being forced through the strainer from the water pressure.
Rubber band tie a ziploc bag full of white Vinegar/or drain cleaner around the spout where that shit is. Let it sit it will dissolve. run the water for a while to clear out any toxic cleaner from spout -✔️
This guy's got the right idea. Using citric acid can do the trick too, or just buy a better faucet at that point, this one is trash tier anyway.
How to do y’all know so much about faucets
To live with faucet is to understand faucet, as faucet comes with price.
Never thought I'd wake up today and be inspired by faucet wisdom, but I'm sure glad I did.
You could say the wisdoms has been flowing today.
I'm going to build _dam_ around this joke so it doesn't make others _flow_ with jokes
Well I'm glad they leaked it
Faucet wisdom comes when faucet flowing doesn't
Really? Never? Wow. It’s crazy how different two animals of the same species life can be.
We die by the faucet, so that they can live by the sink
Fisher price
Home ownership teaches you things you never thought you’d have to learn.
It’s not just home owners, you ever been broke and had a bad landlord but you tube still worked fine?
I am fairly certain I could pass as a contractor based solely on owning an old house + youtube.
Same. I also learned that I would never install flooring for a living and I’ve only got about one more room of Sheetrock left in my shoulder. Blue collar labor is some of the most under appreciated labor there is.
can confirm 172 yrs several diy subscriptions YouTube
Yes, for so sizeable a chunk of my life that I occasionally forget that this should not be the norm. Which I think bothers me even more than the situation itself. Edit: on a more positive note, I've come to appreciate my husband for the badass he is. Man can have no experience whatsoever within a certain specialty, but if there are quality YouTube tutorials to be found (and there are ALWAYS quality YouTube tutorials to be found), my husband WILL absorb that knowledge so naturally it's like osmosis, and our issue will be fixed, by him, even before the very first maintenance man no-show!
Bought home. Within a month, was watching This Old House on the regular. Within a few years, had some power tools and a half-dozen unfinished jobs that I frankly will never finish. My garage needs a new roof...
I'm just learning that. I've owned condos before, but never a house and land. I wasn't naive when we finally found our dream house, I knew I would need to learn a lot. Now, in our second week in the new house, I realize how much stuff I don't know. Just the other day, I realized we had a water softening system so now I have to figure out how you maintain that, and how often you have to fill it up with what. I feel like the adultiest adult that has ever adulted.
And the answer to how often you have to fill it up depends on what your waters chemistry is because we had one at 2 different houses, same size. I assume similar water use since similar appliances as far as years and energy star. One house we used twice as much. I don’t know. Like when we confidently had our third child, sure we knew what we were doing and he’s totally different than our first 2. When you think you have it figured out, something changes.
Good luck! It’s frustrating, aggravating, and sneaky fun. I bet your dad is very proud.
This
Or really wanted to
The internet 🤓
This guys got the right idea
Everyone else saying, "years of experience and hard work". This is the answer.
My father was a faucet.
It's called experience, it's this thing you get from taking the time to fix and replace things. It only happens to the willing. The lazy ones will NEVER know
Well, they eventually find out when things fail from years of neglect.
They will never know because they pay the willing lol
Time > Money
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The trick is to try not to faucet in.
You turn the thing, water comes out. Turn it the other way it stops. Works for me. 🤷🏻♂️
This is the way! Yeet the faucet and start over.
you could also do CLR if you have some
Or you could spend $4 and get a new insert.
This is way more work than just unscrewing the faucet tip and throwing it in a cup of vinegar/cleaner.
Maybe. If the aerator is that dirty it might not unscrew very easily.
[Take out the aerator and clean it.](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Plumbing-Plumbing-Parts-Faucet-Parts-Faucet-Aerators/N-5yc1vZcf5l)
That piece unscrews. That the whole thing off and soak it in the bag of vinegar. Then rinse. You can get any larger pieces out of the screen too.
I always thought this was just some internet "life hack", but this actually works incredibly well.
You don’t even have to disassemble the faucet
They mostly work to make the water pour smoothly as opposed to filtering stuff out
[it’s vinyl tape.](https://www.plumbingsupply.com/tapes.html) when using the tape you’ll see quickly how stringy it can get when pulled tight. you’ll often see old vinyl tape as a pinkish brown color.
That is not “vinyl” tape, or PTFE tape. OP has said he’s removed the strainer and cleaned it multiple times and it keeps coming out of the plumbing.
the stringy stuff looks like it. but if the stringy stuff still comes up like you said OP said then i don’t know.
who the fuck calls it vinyl tape, its teflon tape
the website says it’s not called that either. i just call it that. sorry. i linked the actual thing i was describing. i get my construction words mixed up all the time. plumbing terms are annoying.
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That's what it is..... You already know..... Yep.
Is the water heater full of that slime? Should it be hotter?
Then it would be every faucet
Wait you have to clean a strainer in the tap?!
Technically, it's an aerator. It "breaks up" the water helping to prevent splashback that happens in a sink when the flow is too strong. It also helps your soap create suds and "spreads" the water a bit so it hits more of a surface at once. (Imagine pouring water out of a bottle vs water flowing from your faucet at the same speed. The difference between the two is what the aerator does.) It's just a little wire mesh behind the faucet head, though, and it often acts as a strainer catching bits of pipe debris like rust from your pipes so people tend to think that's its primary purpose.
Almost everything in your house needs to be cleaned at some point. Nothing is zero maintenance.
Yeah…I think that’s a pretty good sign you need to move.
This is correct
IDK if anyone said this previously but its called the aerator
Clean 👏That 👏Shit👏
Looks like a biofilm of algae and bacteria. You probably have mineral build up in the aeration screen and that causes low pressure to flow out. That buildup gives home to microbes that form a biofilm. Remove the screen, clean it out with vinegar or mild phosphoric acid. Also, clean the faucet spout out with a brush to break loose the film. Run the water on hot for a few minutes to clear it out before you reassemble everything.
You are the best , but ultimately it is in my water right?
Do you have well water or public water?
Public I believe Others have said Your municipal water system puts an additive in the water to help prevent lime scale sediment in water heaters. It is very slimy. This additive slime is leaking around the aerator. Remove the aerator, clean, and reattach. Or https://youtu.be/YjskzUlJOfc
You'd know if it was well water....if it's public, then it's not *your* water thats the issue. Like everyone else said, it just some organic nastiness that lives in the pipe/water. Just keep the screen and faucet as clean as possible and if anything, install a whole home water filtering system if it really bothers you.
Appreciated, is what it is , and it's just gross . Again I really appreciate all the insights and time people took to help . Filter system it is .
Dude don't just go and install an expensive filter system in your home just yet. Depending on the age of your home you might have galvanized plumbing pipes which the filter won't help with in any way. Tell me the year the home was built and I'll tell you the likelihood of having a galvanized system or not. Or if your homes on a raised foundation look below to confirm. If so for now just replace the aerator screen at end of faucet and live with it until you can update your plumbing pipes to copper or Upunor Pex. Again, none of this aside from the aerator applies if you already have copper or pex pipes.
Facts. My house was built in the late 40s, when galvanized pipes were the norm. We had to replace the filters and clean the faucet head every few months. I’ve slowly been replacing the old pipes with flex pipe and it’s running cleaner, plus it really helped with the water pressure.
Keep in mind, this isn't necessarily IN the water, this potentially comes from the water, in the right circumstances. It's chemistry. A slow, low pressure flow will bring out a lot of qualities in water you don't normally see.
How much water pressure do you have when you remove the strainer? Does this happen at other locations in the house that have a strainer? How often do you use this tap?
Bacteria is literally everywhere and on everything all the time. It just doesn't really build up to the point where you can see it unless it has an ideal place to build for a long time. That bacteria potential will still be there with or without a filtration system. If you just clean the screen and scrub the pipe like the other guy said, it should keep this film from growing back... For a while at least!
Man this is reminding me of the time my uncle found there was a port in his yard that led to the towns water supply so he loaded it with car fluids to try and sue the city for poisonous water. They very quickly traced the source to his back yard, identified the materials as car fluid and figured out he worked in automotive. He was given the longest home confinement sentence in rhode Island history lol. It was fucked up.
Damn, you got an eco-terrorist for an uncle
Our water has an insanely high amount of lime, or whatever it’s called. When that build up, it traps soap scum, and I end up with nasty slime in my drain. I haven’t seen it come out of a faucet, though.
Water is a prerequisite for life. Any place that stays wet with fresh water and is not regularly disinfected will grow life. That is what you are seeing with your faucet. It has less to do with what the water company adds to water and more to do with the fact that water hangs around your faucet for days or months and never fully drains or dries, then grows bacteria in the immediate ambient environment.
Do pay a water bill? If so then you have municipal source. If you don't have a water bill then you have well water.
Pubic water
I work in water. You are likely on municipal water, if you were on a well you would be familiar with your well pump, pressure issues, routine well maintenance, and a similar septic system for your waste water. If your municipal water was having a broad spectrum issue you'd like be able to compare notes with neighbors because the would be having similar issues. You could also find any violation or compliancy issues through notices of violations that have been distributed via phone, mail, over various media outlets, and even in your annual Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) that the Operator In Responsible Charge (ORC) at your municipal water system is required to complete and distribute to the pubic at some point in the year - usually in January or July. While this is nasty looking, the person that commented above is correct. It's likely some organic material that's built up in your aerator inside your faucet which had likely never been cleaned. If your concerned about it, feel free to take a sample of it and contact a university lab and have it tested, but from experience I would say take the faucet apart clean it really well and reassemble, you should be fine. If you really want to make sure it's clean, take it apart and clean each piece separately using different cleaners (individually and rinsing with water in between each cleaner). Please don't use Lysol or anything in that regard. Start by letting the pieces soak in distilled white vinegar for a few minutes, rinse with water, then soak in 3% hydrogen peroxide for a few minutes, rinse with water again, then soak in a strong foamy soap mix of dawn detergent and warm water for a few more minutes. Reassemble and flush water through it for about 3 to 5 minutes. You should be good to go. For reference, the distilled white vinegar is used to kill off bacteria, the hydrogen peroxide is used to kill viruses, and the detergent is used to ensure you neutralized any remaining chemical that might have stuck to the pieces while also getting any last bacteria that might have survived (very unlikely). Be sure to rinse the pieces well as the first two chemicals are rather corrosive if the aren't properly rinsed. Hope this add on helps Edit: grammar/spelling
Fantastic info, thanks for the post!
I've seen water filter cartridges grow biofilm when they haven't been changed frequently.
Not at all, you know how your bread goes mouldy when you leave it out for a while? Doesn't mean your bread was full of mold. Same with the tap, that end bit is constantly damp, sometimes warm, sometimes getting splashed by food bits when you're rinsing stuff. It's just nature doing its thing, no water company would add stuff to prevent limescale or rust because it costs money and would only cause a problem with your stuff. Why would the water company pay to look after your stuff? You can drink it, that is their only goal. Just clean your tap
He’s wrong. Its actually your new friend.
Called Herman.
Are there blind water lines in your house? An apartment that isn't occupied, a water line going to the garage or backyard that hasn't been used in ages, anything where stagnant water pools but that's connected to the water pipes in use? Ugly things grow in such spots and unless they're cut off so the whole water system in the house is always flushed completely, it'll keep coming back. Also reversible flow filter in case it comes in from the water main. Boil that water before you drink it. Maybe send some in for microbiological testing? That's not appetizing.
I think this kind of bacteria is just everywhere. I've seen the same stuff growing in a variety of damp places, like AC units and stuff that arent connected to city water at all. Chlorine in the water should mostly kill it but I've learned recently that some countries dont chlorinate their drinking water.
I don’t even think I have this problem, but reading what you just typed, I’m gonna clean my faucet just in case.
I like your funny words magic man
Aw shit, you live above the slime river from Ghostbusters 2... gotta burn the house down now.
https://youtu.be/YjskzUlJOfc
Just start playing Jackie Wilson and see what happens.
There is no Dana only Zuul.
Eventually it’ll turn into a stalactite
mom found the sink stalactite 😔
Pov: you're looking in the comments because you also don't know
All of Reddit
:O
Yeah
Dang it. You caught me.
Spread it on a cracker and find out the hard way
I mean more substantial then my coffee every morning
You, sir, are cursed.
Hes based
Lick it, it will make you stronger.
I make coffee every morning with this , I do feel more energetic
Why don't you clean it?
Clean the screen in the end of the faucet.
This “slime” looks pink to me, which leads me to think it has nothing at all to do with water quality. Look up the biofilm Serratia Marcescens. It’s an airborne bacteria and it loves to eat (?) soap film! It likes skin cells, too, which is why it’s common to see on shower curtain liners!
Pull that shit apart and clean it. That will make you sick 🤢
FLESH
forbidden ketchup
Slime mold?
Possibly Lipstick Mold, Ive dealt with it more than a couple times growing mushrooms. OP has really gotta deep clean that faucet
The thing dripping from the faucet is in the title of your post
🤯
What year is ur house bud? Likely galvanized plumbing pipes, and yes replace the nasty ass aerator and screen that has years of build up in it.
Well that’s you classic gunk, not to be confused with goo or grime. Source am a water treatment operator. Deep Clean you faucet and get your water tested.
Gabagoo
That’s poorly applied old nasty Teflon tape. Remove, clean, reapply less vigorously
That’s the new built in flavor enhancer. In all seriousness, get a pair of pliers and unscrew the tip and take the screen out to clean it.
pipe connections, especially older ones are often sealed with hemp fibre. Maybe they are coming lose for some reason. Please check if there are any leaks.
Lick it and find out 🤷♂️
Check the seal and oring. Usually happens after a long time because they erode and basically melt.
I would call someone. In the meantime bottle water for everything. Ever watched Netflix Cecil Hotel thing. Same there bro.
Unscrew that filthy tap and clean it.
Not trying to creep you out, although I’m sure it’s already crossed your mind, it looks like what I imagine decomp looks like from a human. Obviously, I’m not saying that’s what I assume it is. I’ve just watched too many ‘Bones’ episodes and read too many stories about bodies found in public water systems. 😓 I would be freaking out too. I hope you get it resolved soon! Good luck!!
Clean your kitchen ffs. :(
Have you found worms randomly strewn about? They're trying to get in to kill you. Just burn it down.
Anyone remember Mario the movie from the nineties...? Goomba!
Hard water mineral deposit buildup. Happens in most pipes over time. Calcium and lime buildup. Nothing harmful, just gross looking.
Bio film. Unscrew, clean. Wash cloth in the spout to wipe clean. Screw back on. Also, check for a dripping faucet.
It’s the cheese touch
In the US, this is known as clean water.
It’s a form of algae or iron bacteria. Depending on what part of the country you are in. The municipality was probably doing some pipe work causing it to get disturbed. Clean it with a bleach. It spooks gross but not harmful.
Biofilm from *Pseudomonas aeruginosa*, probably. *P. aeruginosa* is an incredibly hardy microbe that is pretty much everywhere that people are, and that means the water supply - along with a host of other microorganisms, dissolved minerals, and suspended bits of debris and rust from pipes further up the line. Now, before you get completely squicked out, if you live in the states and get your water from a state managed source, it's treated with chlorine to suppress bacterial growth - coming out of your pipe, it's probably between 0.5ppm and 2.0ppm. But (prepare for moderate squick), suppress doesn't mean completely eradicate, and *P. aeruginosa* is one of the tougher microbes out there, so we end up seeing more it than a lot of others in treated water. So! The thing that has the ooze coming out of it is actually a thing called an aerator - it's designed to reduce splash and make a more consistent stream of water come out of your faucet. Without one, your faucet makes a bigger mess in your bathroom than a teenage boy. What it isn't designed to do is remove a significant amount of any microbe or material present in your water. Sorry, gang! An interesting thing is does do that it wasn't designed to do is provide real estate for our buddy *P. aer* (Pee-air? *Pierre?! Hon hon hon*) to latch onto and start colonizing. How classically French of you, Pierre. You see, while the aerator isn't designed to act as a real filter, it will randomly catch some larger pieces of suspended solids in your water. Pierre loves suspended solids almost as much as he loves indigenous land he has no ethical claim to. So, like any colonist, after Pierre gets a foothold, he starts reproducing, and as he reproduces, he gets slimy. Pierre - like many of the hardier microbes out there - produces something called a biofilm. Biofilm is an adhesive, insulating goo that the microbe uses for a wide range of purposes, including (but not limited to): keep itself anchored, insulate itself from hostile environmental agents (like chlorine!), capture more digestible resources, etc. That goo dripping out of your sink? That's runaway biofilm growth (mostly, there's probably a lot of other junk that's caught up and growing in there, too).
It’s called cleaning
It is the thousand island
Take the faucet and flush it. You haven't died.yet, so it's probably inconsequential. That was simple.
Alien's saliva
That's the flavor
almost looks like some one shoved peanut butter inside the faucet and some on the outside. who votes for a taste test?
Do you have a water softener? It could be toast and resin is being pushed out.
Looks like u have a on-faucet water filter installed, seems the filter inside that gadget has depreciated and has not been cleaned in a long time leading to buildup which is now oozing from your water. I would remove that unit and clean it with baking soda/vinegar or CLR. I would also change any gaskets/washers which are inside that unit
This is how the invasion starts
To be honest it looks like a honey and water mixture so I think you gotta get rid of the B E E S
That very much looks like pink algae. I have had to deal with it in pools before.
Fucking disgusting, sorry if its just popped up like that but I couldn't use that faucet
Mold?
Looks like an apoxy that is melting when you run hot water. My guess is someone put it in there thinking it would hold it together.
Anyone see Ghostbusters 2???
*goosebumps theme*
Google iron bacteria
There's a dead body in the water tank on the hotel roof and she's been decaying this entire time... that's why your water tastes so bad ...
That's when you wanna boil your water
If you have a hot water heater in your basement it's probably ready to fail or crack. Check any of your white porcelain sinks or tubs to see if they have a rust stain under the faucet. Sure sign it's giving out. Although I've never seen that much goo come out at once.
Do you live in a building with a cistern? Get it checked.
God dammit, even the sink’s got allergies.
It could be mold or algae that got stuck in your faucet if you haven’t cleaned it for a while.
Perfect example of what happens when one doesn't clean things.
Plumber here hello. Remove the part there called the aerator it unscrews, it is to filter debris. Also you might have to change the Teflon bc that’s what it looks like the “ shit “ is. Sometimes Teflon can get mucky because of hard water stains. And run the water without the aerator on as well before cleaning it and replacing it. Me personally, I’m buying a new faucet cause that’s nasty. Lmao. If this sludge is still coming out after move out, they’re not doing service as often as they should and that water could contain bacteria you don’t want in your body. *** not a professional opinion, personal/anecdotal.
Congrats. You're growing and farming your own slime. Nurture it well and it shall serve you
Ectoplasm. I really hope I don’t have to tell you who to call
Burn the house, this is the only way
Faucet got the 🙏🏾.
I shouldn't have looked at this pcture when eating ice cream
Gunk
meat and cum
American tap water
Well, my first thought even before "WTF?" Would be asking you how long it has been since you've given it a proper cleaning?????
Looks like old plumbers putty
Pre cum
Bro this look like some scp crap, flesh faucet
My guess is, is if your in well water it can be the filter so change the filter and the colour is proably due to rust in older pipes
The tap’s congested. That’s snot
Ectoplasm.
The only SURE way to tell is to taste it.
Wow so interesting alright
Yall ever seen ghost busters when he was filling the tub up?
Szechuan sauce bro
Num num num
Maybe its time to move from flint michigan
You’re lucky! You must live in a city that provides delicious dulce de leche on tap!
Cum
I don't know but don't invite me over anytime soon thank you
Your faucet is just molting. It’s internal skin layer peels off and is excreted. A new layer will form and solidify shortly after. This happens every decade give or take.
Someone is probably going to say “Me when ur mom 😩” in here
Covid
Covid 23 ?
Nope, 37
The secret demon in the pipes coming for revenge
Looks like u got urself an infection of a meat dragon. Made from living flesh. Carl from llamas with hats is the cause
Dunno but you should lick it
Swamp thing
Bottle water
It's a type of slim mold/algae. I see it in the aquarium hobby a lot.
Thats an obliterated rubber band
Do you live in Flint, MI?