The CORRECT Way To Replace An Outdoor Faucet | DANGEROUS and Common Mistake DIYers Make!

Were you aware of the vacuum breaker? Most DIYers don't so don't feel alone! There are links to everything used in the video in the description! Hope this helps!

I avoid this guy's videos only because of the stupid thumbnail

Thank you! I just installed 2 faucets and I need to order the vacuum breakers. You just saved me a lot of money. I spent on my rental $450 for the plumbers to install a kitchen that I had already purchased.

Will you do a video on anti siphon from 20 years ago

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Simply thank you for your tutorial.

So, I had to replace the outdoor faucet at my apartment. But the new one ends up sideways, practically 90º short for it to face downwards as it's supposed to. What's a fix for this?

Thank you

I've never seen threads on the outside of the house. And I live in a Southern state. I'd love to see a video on how to tell If you've got a soldered or threaded internal connection and how to tell the length of stub prior to removing the old stub. Thanks for your great channel.

when replacing faucets I always have trouble making sure it is facing down when I tighten it

When you're putting the faucet back on, couldn't you stick a screwdriver in the water exit and turn that way? Also, couldn't you put a piece of scrap wood behind the faucet so you have something to screw into?

I have a well also, really hate to turn off power and then restart the pump. seems there is the potential to bring up light debris from the disturbed well. If I have a shutdown, I will run my lowest faucet that does not have a screen for a minute or two.

Love this! Exactly what I needed to replace my leaking water spigot!

❤nicely stated.

My comment, thank you for being so thorough.

I can tell if I have threading or not you can see there some blue stuff on there which I assume is pipe dope but I have no access to the back side with out just knocking out drywall in my basement

I understand the usefulness of a backflow preventer better now.
Even if you have a well, you are going to want to turn the water off, or you will completely be draining your holding tank.

Very helpful video

my faucet looks just like yours, brass to brass but it will not budge, any suggetions ? i have sprayed wd40 all around in hopes it will penetrate to help it loosen. Still will not budge.

Great video.

How can you finish the gap between house and faucet?

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I always use both teflon tape and a good pipe dope. Tru-Blue works really well. Blue teflon and tru-blu. Zero issues. But to each their own.

I put a gate valve on the inside lines going to the outside. I have two outside taps that get drained in late fall and the outside tap left wide open all winter. All the copper lines in this house are soldered on.

Is that little screw supposed to break off? Looks like its tapered to do so on mine???

Thank you ! Great video , the only one I needed to watch ! Have a Blessed Day 🙌

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Very helpful, thank you very much. Most instructional videos are full of what the box the product came in looks like and other nonsense such as that. Yours gets right to the point.

I would get a sillcock without the support that is an inch from the wall. You may have to shop around to find one that matches your application.

Your explanation of the importance of a vacuum breaker makes perfect sense. My question is: why have I never seen one on a hose bib before? My house was built new in 1999; I researched this and discovered that the Standard Plumbing Code has required vacuum breakers on hose bibs since 1963. My house certainly didn’t have them on any of the three hoses bibs and, again, I’ve never even seen one - as far as I know, that is. They are kind of inconspicuous so I might not have notices one on someone else’s house.

1st, I'm not a plumber, but I have a lot of common sense, and I have sweat on new copper pipes in my home before and replaced an antifreeze faucet before. Now that being said, now I live in a different house with an outside faucet, and I don't know if it is thread on or sweat on. There's a valve that is turned off just 2 feet from the faucet. So what should I do? I am unsweetened by the pip just before the valve and pull it out, then remove the old faucet and put on a new faucet, then sweat the pipes back together?

I have a mobile home on county water. I don't think I need one of these vacuum breakers do I?

Thanks, this keppt me from putiing in a maintenance request with the management...who have some of the worst maint staff available

If you don’t leave your hose bib open after you are done, water cannot get in.

Talk way too much

Code requires that the breakable bolt be tightened til broken off as designed and makes the vacuum breaker NON REMOVABLE otherwise it is not compliant.

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That hose bib will work but it is not the correct hose bib for that application. Your new hose bib should be attached to the wall, thus the two screw slots, the new bib should match the old bib with the hex flats on the female end so you could use a wrench and it should have an escutcheon plate to keep out moisture and insects.

great content

Best vid I’ve seen so far

The vacuum breaker has a rubber washer (standard seal for a hose bib connection) so you don't need teflon tape or other thread sealant on the hose bib threads. Also, although the replacement hose bib did not have a hex cast in, I did notice two wrench flats adjacent to the cutouts for the screws, so you could have simply used your adjustable wrench rather than the strap wrench to install the valve. Good instructions nonetheless, including the most important thing about using a pipe wrench on the pipe exiting the wall to resist the torque applied while installing the valve.

I loathe vacumm breakers. I have never lived in a house with them and would never install them (Im 57). Oh call the safety police. One in a million had some contamination and now we all get inconvenience. Take some chances in your life!

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Help! What needs to be done to stop the vacuum breaker from spiting water back and soaking a person?????

The vacuum breaker spits water back and soaks a person.
How to stop it from doing that!

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Really good in-depth video. More informative and step-by-step than Ask This Old House videos. This video was a great help. Thanks.

I would like to put a lock for my back yard faucet. To avoid opening it by some people.

Great video