Mark Anderson wrote:

: I have my spigot inside the basement and run a hose outside
: when the weather clears. That's a simple and cheap solution.

That's what we are doing right now, connecting the hose to the faucet
by the laundry machines.

It works fine most of the time, except...

(1) The door has to be open, which is problematic when we want to turn
the lawn sprinkler on and go out to run errands.

(2) If someone else in the family needs to use that faucet for a
laundry related reason and I have the sprinkler going.

So we decided it would be best to have a dedicated faucet for this
outside the house.