hosebib

It's time to remove your hoses from the outside faucets. It's Winter now! A hose left on prevents the frostfree hosebib from draining out and when the temperatures drop into the 20's, ice will form and split the copper. Plumbers will get calls in the Spring when the homeowners starting using...

What's the best type of fastener to use to anchor a hose bib into concrete block? I've got one that needs anchoring but it appears that the holes for the fasteners have to be very close to the hole for the pipe that I had to drill. I used galvanized for the bibs because I needed to go through...

I need to locate new vacuum breakers for a customer of mine. The vacuum breakers are spraying on the side of the home.

Sometimes you will need to replace an outside hosebib. The one in thise pictures is from a 1959 home in Bellevue. The home has galvanized piping. For whatever reason, the shutoff here is barely threaded onto to the galvanized pipe nipple. I reached in and pulled it out without tools. Yes, I'm...