How do you fix an outdoor leaky faucet?

[PAChicky]

Help. My outdoor faucet started leaking tonight and this time I can't get it to stop. I used to be able to stop it by turning the screw in the center of the knob but now that doesn't help. I did some googling and is there a washer behind the knob? If so can I just replace the washer behind the knob? How hard is it? It goes through the wall and into the basement. I know I have to shut the water off at the valve but then what? :shrug:

 

[fatdaddycool]

Help. My outdoor faucet started leaking tonight and this time I can't get it to stop. I used to be able to stop it by turning the screw in the center of the knob but now that doesn't help. I did some googling and is there a washer behind the knob? If so can I just replace the washer behind the knob? How hard is it? It goes through the wall and into the basement. I know I have to shut the water off at the valve but then what? :shrug:

move

 

[ppabart]

Help. My outdoor faucet started leaking tonight and this time I can't get it to stop. I used to be able to stop it by turning the screw in the center of the knob but now that doesn't help. I did some googling and is there a washer behind the knob? If so can I just replace the washer behind the knob? How hard is it? It goes through the wall and into the basement. I know I have to shut the water off at the valve but then what? :shrug:

Put your mouth on it. Problem solved

 

[Nole]

Put your mouth on it. Problem solved

Tough crowd PA.

Hold on, Nole is on it.


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[The Boys]

Have your god damn lazy ass husband fix it and you get back in the kitchen.

 

[fatdaddycool]

Oh yeah, my bad, I meant to say............put your mouth on it, then move. Wow, big oversight on my part there.







Turn the water off at the shutoff. Use a vise grip or Robo-grip? available at your local Ace Hardware on the pipe just below the faucet, maybe pad with a rag or something so you don't chew up the pipe, and take the entire faucet off and replace it with a new one that has a quarter turn petcock valve rather than a dial turn type.
Use silicone tape on the threads

Hope this helps,
FDC

 

[MadJack]

Oh yeah, my bad, I meant to say............put your mouth on it, then move. Wow, big oversight on my part there.







Turn the water off at the shutoff. Use a vise grip or Robo-grip? available at your local Ace Hardware on the pipe just below the faucet, maybe pad with a rag or something so you don't chew up the pipe, and take the entire faucet off and replace it with a new one that has a quarter turn petcock valve rather than a dial turn type.
Use silicone tape on the threads

Hope this helps,
FDC

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[fatdaddycool]

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At least I am trying to help......................Christ!


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[Nole]

?This lawn supervisor was out on a faucet maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay faucet head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, ?You can?t work on a Findlay faucet head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench.? Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, ?The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.?

Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, ?It says sprocket not socket!?



Hope this helps.


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[fatdaddycool]

?This lawn supervisor was out on a faucet maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay faucet head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, ?You can?t work on a Findlay faucet head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench.? Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, ?The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.?

Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, ?It says sprocket not socket!?



Hope this helps.


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Move helped more.

 

[PAChicky]

Damage

Damage

:facepalm:

OK So I did not find a shut off anywhere in the basement to turn the water off, so I turned the whole valve off for the water coming into the house. I have a ton of tools so the list I found on google I took outside with me. Vise grips and a flathead screwdriver. #1 is where the FAWKING knob used to be!! I took the screw out and that didn't do anything. So #2 is the sleeve that I unscrewed thinking that would help the knob come off. NOPE. SO while trying to screw the sleeve back in I busted the FAWKING knob off. Tightened the sleeve, turned the "knob" with the vise grips to turn it off, and then put the screw back in. Went back in the basement to turn the water back on and then RAN back outside, expecting to see a gusher of water. Nothing. SO......It's not leaking anymore but there is no more knob on it. I guess that is why I have about four pairs of vise grips so I can "attach" one for whenever I want to use the faucet. It's fixed!! :mj07: Who says a girl can't fix stuff? But in all seriousness since I couldn't get the knob off and it broke off the way it did how do I put a new knob on now? Or I can just leave it the way it is with vise grips on it.

 

[PAChicky]

As far as putting my mouth on it- a faucet is NOT what I have in mind. :00hour

 

[comfortable1]

I think the process and difficulty level is partly based on the manufacturer of your existing faucet.

This is the kind of thing that could get extremely frustrating... throw a bucket under it and have the plumber come out. Probably cost $100 tops. He might give you a discount if you do your insanity workout then head outside to do some yard work in your workout clothes. Hell you could probably have one of the local MJ degenerates do it for free if that's the case :0008

 

[Nole]

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OK So I did not find a shut off anywhere in the basement to turn the water off, so I turned the whole valve off for the water coming into the house. I have a ton of tools so the list I found on google I took outside with me. Vise grips and a flathead screwdriver. #1 is where the FAWKING knob used to be!! I took the screw out and that didn't do anything. So #2 is the sleeve that I unscrewed thinking that would help the knob come off. NOPE. SO while trying to screw the sleeve back in I busted the FAWKING knob off. Tightened the sleeve, turned the "knob" with the vise grips to turn it off, and then put the screw back in. Went back in the basement to turn the water back on and then RAN back outside, expecting to see a gusher of water. Nothing. SO......It's not leaking anymore but there is no more knob on it. I guess that is why I have about four pairs of vise grips so I can "attach" one for whenever I want to use the faucet. It's fixed!! :mj07: Who says a girl can't fix stuff? But in all seriousness since I couldn't get the knob off and it broke off the way it did how do I put a new knob on now? Or I can just leave it the way it is with vise grips on it.

Ok, how many people see a huge turd?

Seriously!!!



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[comfortable1]

Just saw your post and pic...

That's the kind of shit that will fuck you if you don't get it fixed. Sure as shit it'll break when you're out of town or something. Might work fine until the cold comes. If it fails in the winter you might not notice for awhile which could spell
D I S A S T E R

 

[comfortable1]

Ok, how many people see a huge turd?

Seriously!!!



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I was thinking more along the lines of 'wrong side of the glory hole'.

 

[PAChicky]

I think the process and difficulty level is partly based on the manufacturer of your existing faucet.

This is the kind of thing that could get extremely frustrating... throw a bucket under it and have the plumber come out. Probably cost $100 tops. He might give you a discount if you do your insanity workout then head outside to do some yard work in your workout clothes. Hell you could probably have one of the local MJ degenerates do it for free if that's the case :0008

This faucet is probably from when the house was built in 1960. I have all copper piping and maybe 4 whole shutoff valves in the whole house. The water connects to all my baseboard thingies because the water runs through all of those so my guess is they can't be blocked off? I can call my step dad tomorrow and he will say he will fix it this weekend and before lunch tomorrow it will be fixed. I try to fix everything in my house that I can on my own for the experience. If not my mom usually helps me, then if she can't, my stepdad will come to my rescue. Although the bathroom remodel I am hiring someone to do it. :0074

 

[PAChicky]

Ok, how many people see a huge turd?

Seriously!!!



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:facepalm:

 

[comfortable1]

This faucet is probably from when the house was built in 1960. I have all copper piping and maybe 4 whole shutoff valves in the whole house. The water connects to all my baseboard thingies because the water runs through all of those so my guess is they can't be blocked off? I can call my step dad tomorrow and he will say he will fix it this weekend and before lunch tomorrow it will be fixed. I try to fix everything in my house that I can on my own for the experience. If not my mom usually helps me, then if she can't, my stepdad will come to my rescue. Although the bathroom remodel I am hiring someone to do it. :0074

I do as well but the experience taught me plumbing is a pain in the ass... especially old plumbing.

 

[fatdaddycool]

C.
Do you see the hex head shaped doo-hickey behind the thingy where the water comes out? Not hex like an evil spell but hexagonal shaped. If not use the vise grips and tighten the screw on the vise grips so that when you lock them in place around the pipe going into the house it holds firmly in place. Take a ford wrench, pipe wrench, crescent wrench, whatever, and put on the thingy where the water comes out. Put the wrench on the faucet opposite of the outflow and on top of the faucet. Turn counter clockwise while holding the vise grips and pipe in place not allowing it to turn. The easy way is to heat it with a torch first but that isn't important right now. Loosen all the way off, ensuring the pipe doesn't turn, put silicone thread tape or plumbers putty on the threads and screw the new water thingy on in its place. Name it whatever you like, then remember to turn your main water back on.


Hope this helps,
FDC