Outdoor Spigot Replacement | Sharkbite Frost Free

replacing an outdoor spigot is an approachable project by pretty much any homeowner and what i want to do today is walk you through from start to finish how to replace an outdoor spigot now i live in illinois so any of the outdoor space that we replace are going to be frost proof where the valve is actually inside your wall in the conditioned space so the valve and water are not open to the elements so they don't freeze and then lead to damage and ultimately a water leak additionally since we're focused on the di wire i want to reduce the amount of specialty tools or skills that you're going to need to do this project successfully there'll be no soldering we won't be using any press copper fittings where you need specialty tools or any packs where you're going to need a crimping tool either what we're going to use is the diy-er friend and that is sharkbite this is the shark by frost proof outdoor spigot with a 12 inch offset which will match up to the one i'm replacing so remember to look at the hardware you have measure it out and if that's been working successfully for you for years the valve is properly placed inside your home then i would just replace it with the same type so let's jump inside and start the removal process so now we're in the basement and here is what the spigot looks like coming in and then the copper pipes that connect to it so i'm going to have to break into this and modify to get my new sharkbite spigot to fit up now before you get started what you need to do is find your main water shut off and shut that down and then you go to the lowest faucet in your home for me it's in the basement turn that on and drain down all of your water before you break into these lines because you don't want a massive leak on your hands so here's my plan of attack i'm going to try to reuse this copper lines here and some at least one of these 90s so i am going to cut it here and that is where i'm going to use a shark bite 90 and then i'll start piecing things back together so first up i'm going to cut here now the distance that i need to cut because i'm going to actually try to use this portion it'll make more sense later but i'm going to try to use this at the top part connected into my new shark bite spigot we'll see if that works if it does awesome it actually saves me a shark by 90 and a little bit of half inch copper pipe but if not not a big deal i can grab another 90 and then piece that in so i know a half inch shark bite needs one inch of pipe to be fully seated now i'm going to back away from a little bit of messy solder here and then mark one inch then i'll use my milwaukee micro pipe cutter can easily handle half i do have a few wires here one of them actually goes to the water meter that's how they read the how much water usage i have so you just start rotating that i do have a bucket below me right now so when this does break free i'll be able to catch any of the water all right so catching the extra water here let it drain down [Applause] so even with everything shut off you're gonna have some leaking that's why it's always good to have a bucket handy so the plan is i'm gonna see if i can zigzag this out of the exterior hole so i'm going to take the two screws out outside and then try to pull that through if i can't no big deal i'll come back inside and i'll cut the 90 right here so that i can get the old spigot out now in the meantime if you want to turn the water back onto the house obviously we need to cap this line so i do use the half inch shark bite caps which are awesome and and you can reuse them just make sure you get the d mount or removal tool as well so just press this on here okay so now you could turn your water back on you have it capped maybe you have to run some errands maybe you got to go get some more parts but now you're capped and say the family needs to use the water not a problem you're good to go now let's go and see if we can remove this old spigot from outside and that don't don't forget i do want to salvage this line which hopefully will make my install easier so just remove these two rusted screws here and then we'll see if we can pull it out from the outside so loosening up i got a bunch of old caulk there that i gotta break loose but it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to remove it from the outside so i'm gonna do is i'll remove the handle here then once the handle is removed i'll take off the packing nut and then the bonnet nut and what i'm going to do is i'm going to pull out the internal stem so i can easily cut the pipe from the outside the stem washer here is pretty worn out so you should note that you can rebuild your spigots often especially if they are a major brand i'll just take my saws out with a metal blade you can easily use a hacksaw as well either way and then i'm going to try out this new tool it's a tough built razor scraper i did a video on it and i was a little critical of it so i just want to give it a go at some of these common tasks and the issue i find is i can't get the angle of attack low enough to not want to like dig into the vinyl siding and damage the surface so i'm just using it but i'm still not sold on it and i'm going to revert back to old faithful to clean up the siding prior to removing this pipe so now we have the rest of the spigot itself and the part of the copper pipe that we want to salvage so i'm just going to carefully take a hacksaw here and cut off the part that we want to save now you can see from the old solder job i have a bunch of extra solder and mineral deposits i got to clean all that up if you're going to use shark bites you have to have a nice clean round half inch or three quarter inch or whatever size you're using so i'm just taking some sandpaper here and working that around the complete outside of the pipe at least one inch because i'm using half and shark bite and they're going to need one inch to bite into it there you can see the results nice and round no burrs cleaned up so this should work for our job and result in no leaks because the shark bites can actually seal around that pipe so now we'll fit everything back together i just have the spigot loosely held poking through the wall now it should be noted you need to make sure you know that the top is appropriately placed you can do that by either obviously seeing from the outside that you have that circular vacuum breaker valve on the top or on the inside it's actually engraved here it says top so you want that to the top and then you have it positioned correctly so i'm going to take this piece that we're going to reuse and i'm going to place that within the spigot itself and then securely press that in okay so that's fully seated now and then i'll take my 90 degree fitting i'll first go in with this side okay so that's in and it should be noted these ends need to be deburred you should have no slivers of copper or anything hanging out because that could damage the o-ring which is inside and key to these fittings being water tight so make sure you have d-bird or sanded this down so nothing's going to damage those o-rings all right we look like we're good in an ideal scenario you would have this end higher than the exterior part of the spigot so that water would drain out and go downhill that's the way you should be installing these as you definitely don't want a negative angle coming back in so now i'm going to go outside seal things up and put the two mounting screws in so now we're ready to secure the spigot to the wall now unfortunately the original installation put the top of my mounting flange right against the lip on my vinyl siding so i have a big old gap here usually you would use these shims to make sure you have a slight downward grade of the spigot so it drained water out and then that would go against the brick wall and it'd give you that slight downward grade that's not going to be a problem here because i have this holding me up so as i tighten it in it's going to want to angle it down but what i did is i took the old shim i'm actually going to put it in upside down and i chopped it off a little bit just to make up some of this gap and then combine that with some general exterior sealant to get everything secure and sealed up now i'm going to use some exterior heavy duty quarter inch by one and three quarters inch takes a t30 torque bit and this is going to give me plenty of strength a lot of people shortcut here and kind of loosely hold this in the wall and then over time you'll have a loose spigot and that can obviously put pressure on your lines and cause leaks long term so you really want to make sure it's mounted securely get each side started here so we have a very secure connection and that is the way you want it you're going to be taking a hose on and off you want this to be extremely secure and then final test i'm going to go and run the water through the spigot and just make sure we don't have any leaks here at the sharkbite fittings ran a couple gallons through the spigot and we look like we are good to go and everything's dry and that's the project now i have a brand new outdoor spigot and it should be ready for maintenance free use for years to come now remember don't leave your hose connected to your spigot even with these vacuum breaks it's best to take them off especially through seasonal changes when you're up in the northern states like i am now i have a couple more spigots i need to replace but they're not going to be quite as easy as the one i just showed you and that's because they're in the finished part of the basement where there is textured knockdown texture drywall that is covering them and i'm going to have to cut into that drywall and then repair it let me know if that interests you let me know if that's more like the project that you're facing and you want to see the complete project not only the install the spigot but also how to handle the drywall part of that project let me know what other comments you guys have we all have a little different plumbing situation so i'm sure you guys might have some questions out there and then before you take off don't forget to subscribe the channel if you haven't already we have multiple videos coming out every week to help you with repairs and improvements around the house and we'll catch you on the next one take care

Channel: Everyday Home Repairs

Views: 482,927

Keywords: sharkbite sillcock installation, sharkbite, sharkbite plumbing fittings, outdoor faucet replacement

Id: BtHRR5Q65ZM

Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021