![]() ![]() If your indoor shut-off valve doesn’t have a bleeder valve don’t worry, neither does mine. If the indoor shut-off valve has a small bleeder valve turn it until the water drains. Turn off the indoor shut-off valve that supplies water to the outside water faucet. It’s less painful to do this project than it is to write an ENORMOUS check to the water company. Especially since soldering has been made obsolete by SharkBite fittings. Installing a new frost-free sillcock or hose bib (whichever you’d like to call it) is a lot easier than you’d think. Why?īecause it’s much easier to return 3 sillcocks than it is to run to the store 3 extra times. These Amazon affiliate links help keep the lights on at HRT headquarters…so thank you!!īuy a frost-free sillcock in every size.Hammer Drill if you have brick or stucco siding.Two #8 or #10 wood screws or 3/16 inch by 1 3/4 inch Tapcon screws.Container to catch water (from cut copper pipe).SharkBite female straight connector (there’s a picture below).Frost-free sillcock (they’re also called anti-siphon freeze-proof sillcocks).As an added bonus you won’t need to know how to solder copper pipes to do this quick project. Needless to say, my eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw a bill for that much.īy the end of this post, you’ll be able to install a frost-free sillcock, work with SharkBite push-on pipe connectors and sleep like a baby without the weight of frozen pipes on your mind. This has happened to me, not at my personal house but at a rental home. So if they’re leaking water I won’t know until we get our $429 water bill in the mail. I don’t regularly check my outside faucets in the winter. And when they rupture your house and your wallet will suffer enormously. A frozen outdoor water faucet or hose bib could be your worst nightmare.įrozen pipes are like blood clots.
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