When I turn on the sink faucet it sometimes makes a screeching noise, but it doesn’t happen all the time
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To explain the noise, all the pipes in your house are under pressure. Opening the faucet, relieves that pressure and the water comes out at quite a velocity. So what you’re hearing is the water flow contacting the various bends in your pipes. The output (faucet) will be loudest because the sink acts as a parabolic amplifier as well as a mass of air is contacting the water as well giving the water room to expand quickly.
So it makes a screech noise.
The previous comment was correct, turn down your water pressure underneath the sink to reduce water flow noise!
The pressure from the outlet to the faucet is too high. Go under the sink with the water running and turn the knobs down until you do not get the annoying noise.
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