Cycloptic
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Hello all,
I live in a 8 yr old town home in central NJ which my wife and I purchased when new. This town home includes the optional faucet in our enclosed garage along with a patio faucet. We normally keep a hose on the garage faucet all the time, if that means anything.
Each of the outdoor faucets has an associated shutoff valve to isolate it from the main water supply. The shutoff for the garage is in a closet in the room leading to the garage. Up to this summer, this faucet functioned normally. However, this summer, the there is no water flowing to the faucet though the mouth of the faucet is moist when I removed the hose. This is regardless of how open the shutoff valve is. It’s as if the shutoff valve is stuck closed, though it turns normally.
The shutoff valve and the faucet handles move freely and do not appear to be stuck. There are no other valves between this shutoff and the main water supply for the rest of the town home which are all functioning properly, and there are no signs of any leaks. I’m suspecting that the shutoff valve may be clogged somehow though it seems to me that the town home is not old enough for this to happen, or is it?
Every winter, we close the shutoff valves to the garage and patio in fear of frozen pipes. I I’m feel that this is probably overkill for the garage since all of the garage piping is indoors where it is heated, except for the faucet which is located on the back wall of the garage closest to the remainder of the town home. The garage faucet is about 6 or 7 feet from its shutoff valve.
The shaft and packing nut is all that is exposed of the shutoff valve with the remainder of the valve hidden behind the drywall back of closet. Similarly, the spout and handle of the faucet is exposed in the garage with the rest hidden behind drywall. I am hoping for a solution to this that doesn’t require me to cut a hole in either drywall though I will if it is required.
I am not a pro, though I have put in some replacement fixtures for some of our sinks and changed some packing from time to time. I’ve never done anything that involves repairing or replacing shutoff valves.
Are there any suggestions for how I should proceed?
cycloptic
I live in a 8 yr old town home in central NJ which my wife and I purchased when new. This town home includes the optional faucet in our enclosed garage along with a patio faucet. We normally keep a hose on the garage faucet all the time, if that means anything.
Each of the outdoor faucets has an associated shutoff valve to isolate it from the main water supply. The shutoff for the garage is in a closet in the room leading to the garage. Up to this summer, this faucet functioned normally. However, this summer, the there is no water flowing to the faucet though the mouth of the faucet is moist when I removed the hose. This is regardless of how open the shutoff valve is. It’s as if the shutoff valve is stuck closed, though it turns normally.
The shutoff valve and the faucet handles move freely and do not appear to be stuck. There are no other valves between this shutoff and the main water supply for the rest of the town home which are all functioning properly, and there are no signs of any leaks. I’m suspecting that the shutoff valve may be clogged somehow though it seems to me that the town home is not old enough for this to happen, or is it?
Every winter, we close the shutoff valves to the garage and patio in fear of frozen pipes. I I’m feel that this is probably overkill for the garage since all of the garage piping is indoors where it is heated, except for the faucet which is located on the back wall of the garage closest to the remainder of the town home. The garage faucet is about 6 or 7 feet from its shutoff valve.
The shaft and packing nut is all that is exposed of the shutoff valve with the remainder of the valve hidden behind the drywall back of closet. Similarly, the spout and handle of the faucet is exposed in the garage with the rest hidden behind drywall. I am hoping for a solution to this that doesn’t require me to cut a hole in either drywall though I will if it is required.
I am not a pro, though I have put in some replacement fixtures for some of our sinks and changed some packing from time to time. I’ve never done anything that involves repairing or replacing shutoff valves.
Are there any suggestions for how I should proceed?
cycloptic