DAVID HERTZEL
New Member
I found the pictured hose bib on the back of a stand-alone garage built shortly before we purchased our property in 2017. I've lived with it, but finally decided to swap it our for the correct fixture so I could add a pressure regulator and stop bursting the leader hose to the timer. I discovered that the existing hose bib is attached to an adapter with a fine thread that won't accept a standard hose bib, and after doing some research and reading (including on this forum), I figured the existing hose bib must have an integral vacuum breaker and has the fine thread on the inlet side that vacuum breakers utilize. I figured the easiest thing to do would be to find a hose bib with the same fine thread on the inlet side, but Home Depot doesn't have anything, and I can't find anything online that indicates the necessary fine thread, except adapters that have a hose thread on the outlet side. I'm assuming since the existing inappropriate hose bib has the fine thread, an appropriate hose bib with fine thread must exist? I can't find any indication of a manufacturer on the existing hose bib. I suppose I could take off the adapter, but with arthritis and multiple trigger fingers, that will have to wait for my gardener to come back. Any suggestions? Much thanks.