Who Would Repair Broken Hose Bib Faucet

Learn how to supercede a hose bib the easy way. No soldering or fancy tools needed, and no need to pay someone to practise it for you lot!

Did my hose bib survive the wintertime? Permit's turn it on and notice out!

It's one of the classic Rites of Bound along with will my lawnmower start?,what new species of weed is this?, and how much dog poop survived the winter and is waiting to be scooped?

When nosotros moved into this business firm in late spring of 2022, I had the pleasure of meeting this unruly and ill-tempered hose bib. Its old-timey blue handle was spackled with white paint or possibly bird shit. I considered either pick equally likely. The spigot jutted from the business firm as if eager to escape its cramped quarters in a lonely corner of the front end garden. Only worst of all, at some betoken, someone had welded (or in some other way, made permanent) the gold-ish attachment to the main bib which served no purpose (as far as I could tell) other than spraying and soaking the hapless schlub tasked with turning on the spigot. This schlub learned his lesson the difficult way afterwards hooking upwardly my hose and naively thinking I'd soon be watering my plants. The moment I twisted the blue wheel of misfortune, I was violently sprayed about the head, neck and chest with a cool, chlorinated nail of nourishing city water.

I closed the spigot (in itself a creaky and precarious proffer) and tried removing the mysterious golden protuberance with my middle-aged and weakening hands.

No die.

I tried again with vice-grip pliers. Surely the unwelcome hose-bib parasite would yield to the mighty power of hardened steel!

Naught doing.

It really had been welded on! I permit out a stream of sailor talk and threw my head back and so I could bellow to the clouds.

Why? Why do people practice stupid things like this? Why??

I wiped the bleach-scented water from my face up and stormed away muttering indelicate phrases while my eye twitched with fury.

Spray me in the face, will you? I mumbled.

Welded, are you? I grumbled.

We'll come across well-nigh THAT! I promised.

I ran to my car and hightailed information technology to Home Depot. Fixing was off the table. This called for a total-on hose bib replacement.

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How to Supercede a Hose Bib

(Note: information technology's really spelled "bibb," but since I'1000 non only writing this tutorial for yous, dear TNP reader, but also for the wandering searchers of Google, I'thou spelling information technology the fashion information technology's well-nigh-commonly searched. In fact, according to my search-engine sources, basically no i on earth searches for "hose bibb.")

When I was younger and dumber, I once paid someone more than I care to admit to supervene upon a hose bib that was all loosey-goosey outside the house. What a complicated affair it was with all the soldering! I filed the experience away and vowed that if I ever needed to replace another hose bib, I'd practise information technology myself, and I'd find a ameliorate way.

And and then I did. Have you heard of SharkBite? These are the guys who figured out a style to make plumbing piece of cake.

Hither's all it needed.

Supplies to supersede a hose bib

two-pes length of 1/2″ copper pipe (yous may need more or less, but Dwelling house Depot sells 2-pes lengths for nether $6. Y'all may also accept 3/4 inch pipage, so verify before purchasing.)
1/2 inch SharkBite hose bib (I'yard a large fan of 1/4-plow spigots as opposed to the turn-and-turn-and-plow diversity of yesteryear, simply if y'all like wrist workouts, past all means, purchase the old-timey type.)
one/2 inch x 1/two inch SharkBite straight coupling
Mini pipe cutter
Outdoor caulk (optional)

Since this particular spigot was in the front end of the house, I had to climb up on a ladder in the basement to admission its entry betoken into the firm. When I replace the lawn hose spigot later this spring, information technology'll be a much easier thing, since the basement is walk-out back there.

Anyway, earlier doing annihilation, I turned off the water to this spigot. Every outdoor spigot has a close-off valve somewhere just inside the house. Information technology should go without proverb that you close it off before starting a chore similar this. Then again, I'grand sure American hospital beds are peppered with dingbats who embarked upon electrical repairs without starting time de-energizing the piece of work site.

*sigh*

So, in the interest of keeping yourself dry and warm, delight plough off the water to the spigot before attempting to supplant a hose bib.

Anyway, I cut the pipe almost halfway between the joist and the 90-caste elbow. These mini pipe cutters are amazing for this sort of work. Just make sure you don't cut off a section longer than the replacement pipe you bought.

With the pipage cutting, I would exist able to remove the old spigot.

Dorsum outside, I simply pulled the old hose bib and pipe out from the pigsty.

I laid the ii pipes on the only piece of work surface I had at the time (recollect, this was just afterwards we moved in, and I didn't have whatever sort of workbench withal).

To i end of the new pipe, I attached the new hose bib. SharkBite makes it so easy. All that's needed to connect the ii components is pushing them together.

The straight coupling would connect the new pipe to the existing water piping.

I lined upward the old and new hose bibs and then I could measure out the pipe at the dorsum finish.

The coupling would add near 1/two inch (considering of the middle part shown past the blood-red lines) to the overall length if I cut the new piping to the same length as the old.

So I accounted for this by cut the new pipe ane/2 inch shorter than the erstwhile one.

Back outside, I inserted the new pipe and hose bib back into its hole.

So back inside for the final step of connecting the new pipage to the existing pipage with the direct coupling.

Couldn't be easier! All told, this was near a fifteen minute set, and nearly of that fourth dimension was figuring out how I was going to proceed. I'grand certain I tin do the back spigot in 5 minutes.

At that place's really no need to hire a plumber or handyman for a job similar this. Equally long as you have admission to where the pipe enters the house, you can supplant a hose bib yourself. This ranks amongst the easiest of home DIYs, merely it'due south one that many people might think is beyond their skill ready considering they come across soldered copper pipes.

There are a few options on the outside at this indicate. There are spiral holes to secure the hose bib to your siding. Because we take brick cladding, I decided against screws. Too many holes in one brick might crusade it to crack. I did, however, put a ring of outdoor caulk around the hole that leads inside the firm. Though it was already a snug fit, and there was no evidence of prior water leaks or insect incursions, all-time not to take a gamble. Caulk secured the spigot, but I tin can still easily remove or supplant it if I need to in the time to come.