How To Repair A Leaking Outdoor Faucet Hose Bibb

Old 07-xxx-12, 08:37 AM

Join Date: Mar 2003

Location: NC, Us

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I'm thinking it'due south a frost proof faucet and maybe someone left a hose attached to it during the winter. Offset I would ostend that you lot accept a frost proof type faucet.

This is a non frost proof silcokc (spelled incorrectly on purpose to get by the naughty give-and-take filter). They often have the knob at an angle or on top.

These are frost proof slicokcs. They unremarkably have the knob on the front end and often have a siphon intermission (a bump similar affair on the spigot).

If you lot have a frost proof one you will need to access the area within the firm where the faucet is to confirm the leak. It will probably be in the floor/ceiling between your basement and main floor or inside a partition wall inside the house. Frost proof silcokc'due south are likewise long to be in a straight section of wall since they stick 12-eighteen" into the business firm.

The long story: Frost proof faucets are actually quite long with the valve that does the piece of work maybe a human foot inside the home. Normally when the water is turned off the h2o drains out of the faucet and the valve is deep within the business firm and then it does not freeze. If a hose with a sprayer or another nozzle is left attached to the spigot the water cannot drain away when the faucet is turned off. The water in the outer part of the spigot freezes forming a plug, and equally information technology freezes more than the pressure is trapped betwixt the closed valve and the water ice plug which splits the tube of the faucet. Surprisingly I've never had ane carve up if the valve is left open. I suppose the force per unit area has somewhere to get.