Thanks Steve for that laugh when you put the recently unsoldered piece for your pocket and laughed about it wondering why it was getting warm. That had me cracking up too. Cheers from Vancouver Canada!
It is that time of year again momma….New England’s 6th season, aka sill faucet replacement season. 😜👍 Like most repairs, Steve makes it look easy… Like everything else those frost-free outdoor faucets aren’t cheap anymore. Even the re-build kits are at least half the price of a new sill faucet….. Take Steve’s word and remove your garden hose from the faucet when the temps get cold or suffer the sticka shock.
So much easier to do a female adapter so the home owner can do maintenance or swap it out next time. Its good business to make things easier for the home owner...
That particular homeowner sounded like an elderly woman, so she’s probably calling in someone to replace if / when needed. But I agree with you; at my own house I used the threaded female fitting on the inside when I replaced mine. Next time, just some Teflon tape and screwing on.
i agree Steve to prevent melting the internals, it takes the 20 seconds to take the guts out. lol you solder quicker than the pro press queens get the tool out the case. " its not the space shuttle"
I know it is a tough winter environment, but those faucets seem to fail pretty often. I like the inside shut off and purge the line to a regular hose bib when it comes time for winter, am I way off here? I am familiar with cold winter, but not negative numbers for a long period of time.
Always makes me nervous running a torch on an existing stop and waste valve, for fear of damaging the washer or packing. 1/2" coupling in the new 5" section of copper all day long.
@@plumbbuild6517 - I had a good lumber come and replace some shut off valves recently. The ones where solder was best were soldered. One in particular where solder would have been bad was for a refrigerator ice maker shut off that was in a wall that contained blown in insulation - the pro-press was the right tool for that.
Just shut it off from the inside till you can replace it. My soldering looks like crap any more. But being 72 and having tremors make it interesting ( aggravating )
yeah, that working over washer and dryer sucks i was redoing bathroom plumbing over dryer and used a folding kitchen stool with metal grab loop so i could lean over dryer but eventually gave up and moved dryer since i had a bunch of pipes to fix
Looks like the dryer vent duct work needs a cleaning too as the bottom slat of outside dryer vent cover is sticking open, probably with an accumulation of dryer lint.
I made the mistake and left the hose on one winter and it ruined the faucet. The water never flowed out and froze and split the pipe. Had to replace it.
The bread truck sounds a lot better than before, was that an extra long frost free valve, like 2 feet long, haha just kidding, Good job Steve as always.
7:00 Job Security, I would think a female fitting would make the faucet easier to replace in the future assuming you can find a frost free hydrant which is the exact same length. The rubber shutoff washer is right on the other side where he soldered but he took it apart and was good. No leaks that is all that counts in the end.
Those frost free faucets do come in very standardized lengths. There are different standard lengths due to different wall thicknesses and plumbing configuration, so would just have to pick the right one.
[ Without Even Seing this Video ]; " Judging by " the " Title and the Picture " in the " Thumbnail " ! I Would Attach a " High Pressure Hose " With a " Trigger Nozzle " on the end of it and go from there ! Hey ... It's Better then spending $ 150. +/- Dollars on having " Professional " come out and Fix it !
