Kitchen faucet low almost no pressure

[nomad297]

What was your final solution with this? It may help a member with a similar thread going right now.

Bruce

[rjshiflet]

Our Cardinal has a pull-out faucet head with sprayer and we had terrible flow early in our ownership...unless I pulled the head out for spraying, then it was fine. I discovered the counter-weight under the sink (in our island) was placed wrong and was causing a kink in that hose...thus restricting the flow.

I loosened the weight, moved it six inches then tightened it - problem solved. You might check that while you're checking other issues if it isn't already resolved.

[The Newsoms]

If hot and cold both slow, then it’s got to be in the faucet?

[GilnJo]

OP here. Issue was debris in the line, at the quick connect in the pull-down hose. I had already purchased a replacement faucet from Amazon, about $65, practically identical. Replaced in about an hour. Good to go.
As a previous commenter stated, it was clearly a flow problem, not a pressure problem. It's easy sometimes to overthink things, which my Water Supply Engineer brain tends to do sometimes.
Thanks everyone for the feedback!