DIY: Leaking Exterior Faucet Repair | Style Prier C-144

welcome back to our channel this is where you learn and i share with you tip bits that i've learned over the years and let's get into why you're here today do you have a leaky outside spigot do you have a leaky outside faucet is water just gushing out of it is it dripping well you're at the right place because i'm going to show you exactly how to fix that do my goodness we have water running everywhere what would cause that and the water does not stop for a little while it has a valve inside that clear inside inside the house which is what causes it not to freeze up in the wintertime so we're going to go ahead and take this apart and check this out and just see what's inside there and what's causing it but before we go take it out apart the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go inside the house near the source of the water and figure out or not figure out but turn the water supply off because we take this thing apart we're going to have more of a leak so let's go inside [Music] this area inside the house in the basement and there's it's not accessible where this is so now we need to go back to where the well is or where the water comes inside the house corner here in the house so we found the tank in our basement excuse me where the water from the well comes into the house now your house might be a little bit different if you're on city water but we got a a valve down here at the bottom there where it comes into the tank this just need to turn it that way and you can fall this line goes up towards the front of the house and this is where we'll shut the water off so now we're ready to head back outside okay first what we'll do is i grab myself a phillips screwdriver and we'll take this handle off you want to make sure you don't drop the screw because it could get lost [Music] that comes out like that if you're like me search online and every video you watch or every instruction you look at just seems like there's no consistency but i'll show you exactly what mine looks like and we can learn together of how to create or correct a leaky outside spigot i'm going to go ahead and use this ratchet set and of course it's inch and a quarter inch and quarters the size and it was very loose you'd almost be able to loosen that with my hand and then once we have it loose then we'll go ahead and pull that apart [Music] there's a little flat end on there and i took this adjustable and turned it a little a little bit touchy but it just comes apart like this and it feels like it feels like a spring in there maybe or something [Music] let's see what is what is in here [Music] looks like a piece of rubber here a little rubber washer on the end because when you turn this it pushes and closes off these holes that allow water come out and you can see how this [Music] bevel piece fell apart now that we have it all part know what's inside go to the link below and you can order one and wait for it to show up in the mail [Music] all right this is exactly what we need now there is some instructions on the back of the paperwork or on the back of the package that you can use but i'm going to go ahead and show you how i did it which is pretty much the same as what the directions say we got the [Music] got this piece took apart you can see here on the end there's a phillips screwdriver we're going to take that rubber washer off and then take off that little rubber sleeve just like that and then on the inside there's a a a beveled washer it's not really rubber [Music] i think it's called a graphite [Music] so we're going to go ahead and put that in there and then we're gonna push the new one back on this way we got that pushed up in and seated right in the way it's supposed to be and then we got this end piece that we're going to put on go ahead and put that in there and put a screw in now it'll be the the shorter of the two screws we'll need this longer piece for our new the new handle [Music] and we'll put that on there and screw it into place okay we got this together we got the washer on the end and that other piece this is going to be a little bit tricky trying to get this in here it shouldn't be too bad you just kind of turn it twist it at the same time as you go in there there it's in push that in there like that until it bottoms out then what we'll do is [Music] we'll turn that into place you know how it has threads on the end of it big thick threads [Music] now it kind of bottomed out so we have the end piece here and here's our graphite [Music] piece in here again [Music] turn that back on [Music] i don't want to make it too tight we'll uh just kind of snug it up [Music] and put back on our handle that really makes that look a lot nicer but i think before we do that we'll go ahead and replace that since the piece came with since that came with it that basically what that does is it lets air in so the water will drain out so it don't freeze in the winter time it's kind of a different design and [Music] put that in there and just put that over top like that that gets rid of that ugly looking cap that the sun baked and then we will put the cap on for certain and screw that in with our handed and a screwdriver and tighten that up nice then i'm going to run down and turn the water on down at the well pump and then we're going to check to see if this thing's going to leak or if it's going to be a great job okay okay now we're going to turn this on hear the water run in [Music] i don't hear the water running through the system so it must be holding outside so let's go outside and check it out got that on there nice and tight and that's test this out well it's leaking out there just a little bit so that means we need to tighten this up just a little bit so let's grab a wrench okay we got it tightened up actually what it would end up in this here needs a little bit tighter too so let's turn this one and try it out here the water coming out into the hose and there is no leaks anywhere okay a 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Channel: DIY Inspired † Lewis Brantner

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 04 2022