Silcock length

[Oilers]

Hi, I have a moen outdoor frost free faucet (12" Silcock) that has started to leak this spring when the tap is on. If it is frost free why is it leaking? I even drained the lines and turned off the taps prior to winter? Moen is sending me a replacement faucet but only 10" as they no longer make the 12" model. My question is.... Why do they even make different lengths if it is being connected to pex tubing? Does it matter that I originally had 12" and m replacing it with 10". Why do they even make different sizes? Thanks

 

[Terry]

A frost free hosebib is intended to have the shutoff on the warm side of a wall. With a 2x4 wall, that would be a six inch. With a 2x6 wall, it's an 8"
If you had a 12", that might have been for a 2x4 wall and a brick exterior.

As far as yours leaking even though you took off the hose before it got cold enough to freeze and split it, I replace a lot of those that "I remembered to take the hose off" hosebibs. Kinda doesn't matter what the excuse is; it froze and split.
Maybe a fairy or a sprite was fooling with it. Who cares. It's going to be replaced, and it's just another split hosebib that we find every Spring. Funny we never find those in late Summer.

 

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[Reach4]

Where is it dripping from? May sound like a stupid question, but if they drip from the anti-siphon cap, there is a different cure. It is not always obvious unless you look for it.

 

[hj]

They make various lengths of freeze RESISTANT hose bibbs, because there are different thicknesses of walls. WHERE the leak is determines what you have to do to repair it. Normally, the only reason to replace one is because it DID freeze and crack. Saying it "leaks when the tap is on" can have more than one interpretation.