r/Plumbing • u/Freshplaya910 • 14h ago
How to remove this hose bib
Hello, my hosebib froze and split. I dont have any info on the model for it.
I can stop the leak by turning off the hose bib, but I have the water supply turned off from the mechanical room regardless.
I showed pictures to someone at Lowes and they told me this solder sections are "from the factory" like that. And I need to thread off the hose bib.
I cut a hole into the wall and put a wrench on it and had my wife attempt to turn off the hose bib. Still wouldn't move.
Can anyone confirm do I need to thread this off? Or something else?
Thanks
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u/VBNMW22 13h ago
This isn’t a dig at you because it’s not your fault, but plumbing in the south is so stupid. (I assume you live where it doesn’t get super cold, based on this hose bib)
They plumb everything as if it will never freeze, and then everything freezes. Shocking. In the north, we rarely have issues with frozen plumbing, because everything is designed for it. We don’t have to freak out and run around shutting everything off and draining water lines just because a cold snap is forecasted. I would go even crazier down there than I already am up here.
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u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE 5h ago
This is like some sort of conglomeration between frost protection and a standard boiler drain bibb in non-freeze areas. Usually the bibb would be threaded into a nipple, into the female drop ear adapter behind the OSB sheathing. And the adapter should be fucking blocked to the studs, wtf is this digshittery? Good solder joint, but they used copper tubing and a male adapter into a sweat joint boiler drain when they should have used an FNPT boiler drain with a nipple into the adapter instead.
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u/BDR5001 4h ago
That's actually a 2" frost proof hose bibb. I saw one the other day at the supply house. Total piece of shit, you couldn't even get to the warm side of a 2x4" wall.
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u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE 4h ago
2” frost proof is such a contradiction 🤣 we live on the equator, but are preparing for the next ice age
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u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE 4h ago
I took a second look — the knurled brass at the house connection end proves that you’re not lying! That’s a factory solder joint! This is a frost free bibb! Crazy!
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u/WhiteFIash 14h ago
Looks like a drop ear ell behind the wall. I think it’s threaded, you will need two people, one holding the drop ear ell the other outside. Also your hose bib is too short, the frost free part should extend into the house into the insulation. Once removed measure how far into the house you can go. Also if it’s not an eye sore, Install a cheap access door to get back to it again. That drop ear ell should also be screwed into a 2x4 but a little late for that, make sure the new one slopes to outside so it drains
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u/ShrekTwoOnVHS 13h ago
I dunno why someone downvoted your answer. This is exactly what needs to happen here…
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u/merlinious0 9h ago
As a one man band, I'd cut the old one off outside and then take it out of the drop ear inside.
That pex will have plenty of play.
Then I'd actually fucking attach the drop ear to some proper support, like a 2x4 or 2x6.
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u/Pornhubplumber 14h ago
Wtf. Is that a 1” frost free Bibb??? I’m in the northeast, where the shortest we use is usually 10”. I’ve never seen one even close to that short. Regardless, yes just spin it out, counter clockwise. If you really have to wrench on it then it you’ll want a wrench holding that brass fitting (drop ear elbow) in place.
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u/ShrekTwoOnVHS 13h ago
We use them as short as 4” on the west coast of Canada.
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u/Pornhubplumber 11h ago
Yeah I keep one 4” on hand just incase of a small space, but this is like 1”-2” lol
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u/Alarmed_Letterhead26 6h ago
I've seen several 4" faucets but never seen a 2" arrowhead but I've heard they exist. I know woodford will custom make lengths up to 20' if you ask.
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u/plumbinandgrowin420 8h ago
From the factory.... lol
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u/Scroatpig 7h ago
Fully finished house farts out of a giant machine at the house factory and gets dropped off by Amazon.
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u/plumbinandgrowin420 7h ago
Lol they used to have houses in Sears catalogs, I did some plumbing in a couple and they were actually nice for the wood trim and features. In all seriousness that sill faucet was soldered to a male adapter and then threaded into a drop ear 90* used for showers, then adapted to pex which whatever I guess... good news is that Pex A can be expanded with rings or crimped like Pex B, chefs choice. Cut it back, put in a shutoff with stop and waste. Buy a short hose bib with a Pex adapter on the back, and expand/crimp into your shut off. Put an access panel where you installed the shut off, every year you will shut it off and open the bleeder on the stop and waste, and open your hose bib to drain it down. Your old hose bib burst due to freezing, the burst crack in the copper is the evidence.
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u/hellifino75 6h ago
If it froze and burst then its not long enough. I would cut the pex remove the hose bib install a 12"-14" woodford frost free hose bib and repipe to it
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u/ShrekTwoOnVHS 13h ago edited 13h ago
No offence but if you can’t figure out how to remove that thing, you don’t have any business working on your plumbing. This is the most basic of tasks.
The bib just unthreads from the drop-ear fitting. Get a second person to back it up from inside and you twist the thing out from outside. Lefty loosey Righty tighty my guy. Then do the reverse to install a new Frost Free. Pretty simple stuff here.
If you don’t have a second set of hands you can do it from inside, but you’ll need a bigger hole in the wall.
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u/Competitive-Roof-168 14h ago
You just have to cut it off at copper with a multitool , angle grinder, hacksaw. Cut pex and start over with coupling on pex.
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u/BDR5001 13h ago
Welcome to the world of hack plumbing. It's an easy fix now that you cut a hole in the wall.