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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Do it Yourself Discussion! => Topic started by: sixwings on December 08, 2020, 03:25:25 PM
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Hi everyone, I have a broken spigot outside, any ideas, resources or videos on how to fix this? Been looking through YouTube but haven’t found anything yet. It’s spraying water toward the house etc.
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Cut your water off and remove that whole valve assembly the part where you turn the water on and off. Then replace the valve it should to the trick.
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So I should just be able to remove it from the PVC?
(Sorry if that's a dumb Q, pretty new to DIY stuff like this)
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It looks like the water is coming from between the end nut and the body of the valve. Did you try tightening it? That would be my first step. If that doesn't work, there is probably a o-ring in there that has degraded. Your options at that point are to take it apart and see if you can replace whatever o-ring is not intact or to buy another valve with the same threaded ends and replace it. Make sure to take the threads with silicon tape when you do so. Many hardware stores or even on line sell o-ring kits for plumbing but it will probably cost as much for an entire kit as it will to just buy another ball valve. But then you have enough o-rings to probably last you a lifetime of repairs.
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I'm assuming it only does that when you turn it on?
First, turn off the water, next remove the garden hose. Do you know where your water shut off is?
Remove the plastic nut with a wrench while holding the valve with another wrench.
Lefty loosie (and righty tighty)
Take the valve to a hardware store, you'll need to match the threads on the big nut you unscrewed, it will still be on the gray pipe.
What you want is called a hose bib. It's for attaching a hose to. You want one with ears or holes that you can use to attach it to something solid: maybe drive a post or stake solidly into the ground and attach it to that? If it's not well secured it will wear out the connection. You can see how it's putting the squeeze on the gray pipe by hanging there with the garden hose attached.
Use the threaded part that's still in the valve as a reference for what you need at the hardware store.
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I'm assuming it only does that when you turn it on?
First, turn off the water, next remove the garden hose. Do you know where your water shut off is?
Remove the plastic nut with a wrench while holding the valve with another wrench.
Lefty loosie (and righty tighty)
Take the valve to a hardware store, you'll need to match the threads on the big nut you unscrewed, it will still be on the gray pipe.
What you want is called a hose bib. It's for attaching a hose to. You want one with ears or holes that you can use to attach it to something solid: maybe drive a post or stake solidly into the ground and attach it to that? If it's not well secured it will wear out the connection. You can see how it's putting the squeeze on the gray pipe by hanging there with the garden hose attached.
Use the threaded part that's still in the valve as a reference for what you need at the hardware store.
This is exactly right - a Yard Butler (although expensive) might work perfectly depending on those threads on the plastic coupler. You could likely make one yourself for like $10.
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I'd replace the whole works with a properly installed, thru the wall, frost proof spigot.