How to Replace an Outdoor Faucet | Aquor House Hydrant Exterior Faucet Installation

hi everyone it's melissa from welcome to the woods today i'm outside upgrading my exterior faucet and i'm going to show you how easy it is to simply install brand new you might be wondering why i am out here nine months pregnant installing a new faucet and the reason is twofold one is that this faucet is leaking you can see here and i'm gonna show close up of that here even with the hose attached you can see the problem we're having and um instead of calling a plumber to fix this i'd rather upgrade it with something new for basically the same price as paying a plumber the leaking has been driving me crazy as my kids often use this faucet when we come home from the beach i just want to get this switched out before the baby comes in before summer ends the second reason is that aquar water systems which is the new exterior faucet i'm going to be installing is so easy that literally anyone can do it first thing i'm going to do is cut the culkin putty around the pipe that goes into the house now if you're more comfortable you can turn off the water before doing this but since my water valve is inside and i'm moving inside next i'm just going to cut this first and then shut off the water a lot of interior piping situations are kind of hard to access and mine is no exception i'm going to do my best to show you from the inside what this looks like i'm down in my basement and behind this panel with the vent we just unscrew it and here we can access behind the faucet this is where the water comes into our house actually and so that's why the faucet is placed here but it's kind of tight working conditions you can see the water pipe going up into the faucet and then up in there i'll give you a close-up shot you can see it going outside and that's where we're going to disconnect it i don't see an easy water shut off valve so i'm going to have to shut off water to the whole house right now to get this replaced so here i found my water shut off for the whole house and once i turn that all the way to the right um there's no more water coming in and now i'm gonna go to the exterior faucet and i'm going to drain it by opening that valve and letting whatever water is residual in there drip out okay so here we can see my water line coming up and back here you can see the attachment for the exterior faucet the system i'm going to install already has a female end on it so all i have to do is use a crescent wrench to unscrew this piece and it's going to be a little tight in here but i'll just do my best you can see with the caulking removed on the outside that the existing faucet is loose and i can wiggle that slightly now you'll see a clip of what it looked like turning that crescent wrench from the inside on the outside the faucet is twisting in a circle so not gonna lie this was pretty intense and strenuous because the plumber's putty on the inside fittings makes it so it really requires some elbow grease to turn and i did switch on and off with my hubby trying to get this faucet loose now that the old faucet is out of there i'm going to drill the hole slightly bigger to fit the new aqua faucet system they come in all kinds of different lengths for mine i'm going with a 12 inch long faucet this is the longest they come in so that i can meet up with the piping inside the wall and i'm actually going to need just one extender fitting i'll show later but this is drilling the hole big enough that the new faucet will go through this is a one inch spade bit and then i'm going to come in with a one and a half inch hole saw and i'm going to drill just the outside depth a little bit bigger because that's where the little cover is going to fit in so the aqua faucet that i'm installing is 12 inch because i have six inch deep walls you're going to have to measure how deep your walls are and where your fittings line up before ordering your faucet system all the installation instructions come with including this handy template which i didn't use to drill my one and a half inch hole because there was already a hole there but i am going to line it up on the hole and use the markers for where to drill for screws there are three screws that hold the aqua faucet cap in place and those will just get attached after we thread it onto the piping inside the wall so this is the fitting that i needed to purchase in order to make my aqua system work with my existing piping the uh you can see it's just two male ends that screw into the faucet and then the female end that's already down there so you can install an aqua faucet leading up to pex or copper piping like i have or multiple different plumbing scenarios so there's installation instructions to make any of them work and you can see that i'm coating them in plumber's tape and then also i'm going to be putting on some of this plumber's putty the thread sealant this is just going to make sure that my threads hold tight and that everything is totally waterproof so there's no leaking you can see that all parts of this fitting that's going to connect my pipes together got this same treatment with tape and putty and then i'm just going to hand tighten the faucet onto the fitting and we're going to slide it through the hole from the outside and then i'm going to need a little bit of help from my husband again on the inside just to get things lined up so we're going to put it through and my husband on the inside of the wall is going to line up that gunked up fitting with the existing piping and get it started everything gets tightened with crescent wrenches again and i'm sorry i don't have a clip from the inside that working conditions were just too tight and too dark but i hope that this is still helpful tutorial for you if you're going to try and do something similar in the faucet install in your home so before i tighten the faucet on any further i need to put on this cover i pick stainless steel but this comes in lots of different finishes and this is what will be visible on the outside of the house you can see it flips up and there's this back that kind of bumps it out from the wall and tilts it down at an angle this works to allow the faucet to back drain every time you take out the attachment that you know actually dispenses the water so when you have the faucet installed i'm just having him tighten and turn the faucet onto the fitting with that cover behind it you got to get the holes all lined up with your pre-drilled holes into the wall and then we're going to screw everything together so here you can see that i'm installing the screws once all my holes are lined up both the cover behind the faucet the faucet and the pre-drilled holes in the wall and i apologize that my massive ponytail is in the way okay so let me show you how this works this has a stainless steel flap that covers up the faucet so when you flip it up you can access the hole which has different attachments for the water to come out so these different ones you can just put in and then completely remove when you don't want to use it and they clip in just like so you get them lined up and you turn them then they have a little valve on the outside that opens a spigot and this one here that i'm using is actually a quick hose connect but i really like this one the best because of how the water comes out when you remove it you can see that the excess water always drains back out of the of the faucet so it's totally freeze proof and you never have to worry about it the other attachment i got is like the regular spigot and this one clips in and the water dispenses just like so so it's kind of up to you how you want to use your faucet but what i really like is that you have the option to just completely remove it and then this everything just looks sleek there's no fittings on the outside to leak or worry about and i love too that the quick hose connect we can just leave these attachments on our hose and just clip our hose right into the faucet like so i am super excited about my new aqua outdoor faucet system i think that this quick hose connects going to be used a lot um the spigot i love that i can just put that in when i want to use it and take it off when i don't want my kids messing with it i love the sleek design and the stainless steel look and since it's self-draining i never worry about freezing even during minnesota's very harsh winters i hope this video was helpful for you if you're considering buying one of these aqua outdoor faucet systems or you need help installing one yourself you can find a link in the description below if you would like to purchase and i want to thank aqua for sponsoring this video thanks for watching we'll catch you again next time on welcome to the woods bye [Music]

Channel: Welcome to the Woods

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Keywords: outdoor faucet, outside faucet, exterior faucet, faucet installation, faucet replacement, outdoor faucet replacement, replace outdoor faucet, aquor, aquor house hydrant, aquor installation, fix outdoor faucet, leaky outdoor faucet, faucet install, outdoor faucet install

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 15 2021