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Installed a new outdoor faucet, but there's nothing behind it to screw into...
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Brick is always tough. I don't like "gluing" them in though. It's a bitch if you need to replace it next time. I like to secure from the back side (inside wall) and then use some caulking on the brick side.
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FullySprinklered
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If the hole is too big or too irregular to make a nice fit, I roll up a snake out of plumber's epoxy and drape it around the spigot behind the flange, then press it in. Pre-fit some kind of stick to hold it in place while it sets up, @ fifteen minutes. Give it a few minutes and cut away the excess before it gets too hard.
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I would cut a block of solid surface material & mount it to the wall, drilled to fit the faucet.
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I installed two spigots yesterday on a Propex repipe. The second one went through the same hole as the original spigot. The hole was way bogged out, and I needed something to fill the space around the spigot, to exclude bugs, and hold the spigot in place. The epoxy snake took care of all that.
On the first spigot, the penetration had to be moved down the outside wall on account of the fact that the original feed pipe went up through the bottom plate, then up in the wall for a foot or so, then out through the sheathing and lap siding to the outside. I couldn't duplicate the route of the original pipe, so I drilled through the band down lower and abandoned the original pipe. I preassembled the spigot and propex adapter and pipe, and pushed it through the hole from the outside to connect to the main near the PRV in the basement ceiling. The useful piece of information in all this is the fact that the spigot with its adapter and compression ring fit perfectly in a 1" hole drilled in the siding. That left plenty of room for the two screws for the sill cock to get a good hold in the siding.
On the first spigot, the penetration had to be moved down the outside wall on account of the fact that the original feed pipe went up through the bottom plate, then up in the wall for a foot or so, then out through the sheathing and lap siding to the outside. I couldn't duplicate the route of the original pipe, so I drilled through the band down lower and abandoned the original pipe. I preassembled the spigot and propex adapter and pipe, and pushed it through the hole from the outside to connect to the main near the PRV in the basement ceiling. The useful piece of information in all this is the fact that the spigot with its adapter and compression ring fit perfectly in a 1" hole drilled in the siding. That left plenty of room for the two screws for the sill cock to get a good hold in the siding.
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Plumbers putty would not be the material of choice. Use caulk if you want something soft. Use morter mix if you want to make something hard, but don't fill the whole space with morter mix, in case you want to change the spigot out some day.
FullySprinklered
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Epoxy, not putty.
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