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Outside pipe/faucet in Chicago's climate
KK wrote:
In article , wrote: On May 5, 5:01 am, Newbie wrote: barbie gee wrote : Even if you can, I wouldn't. Why? Just trying to understand. Is it not enough to be careful and shut the water off before freezing? "Shut off the line before the first freeze, and open the outside tap to drain the line. I've had 6' of PVC outside for 10 years, no problems except when I forgot to turn off the line early enough. " The story is right there. "Shut off the line before the first freeze" is a lot like the guy on the bus telling the woman wanting directions to Main Street: "Just watch me and get off the stop before I do." I think "no problems except when I forgot to turn off the line early enough" says it all -- Do you really want to live in fear of your plumbing? One unexpected cold snap while you're out of town, and you'll have a burst pipe and an icerink in your back yard -- and maybe even your front yard. I would have a hose bibb installed on an outside wall where it's not going to be under a porch. Then get one of those decorative hose reels that you mount to a wall, and install it on the porch in your dream location. Then could run a length of hose from the new faucet to the hose reel. You will get in the habit of shutting off the water at the house faucet when you're done watering for the day, so no pipes will freeze. Put one of those 69 cent globe valves in series if you want to shut off the water temporarily during the day. I leave the whole kit and kaboodle on and generally only have to replace the vlave outside every Spring. It generally doesn't explode until way into January. And here all along I thought you got yer water from the fire hydrant... Yer yard is MUD anyways...just slop it down once in awhiles to disperse the cig butts and canine turds... -- Best Greg |
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