hughhallhh56
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Hello all,
I had the nice experience the other day of hearing water running outside when the weather in Dallas had dropped to 20 degrees. I went out, and found the faucet running so I turned it off and the whole faucet came off in my hand. Of course the ensuing 3/4 jet of water had an interesting affect on my clothing.
After turning off the house water - and changing clothes, I went out and found the freeze proof faucet had sheared off at the brick line. I was very lucking in that two pairs of vise grips and a pipe wrench managed to remove the faucet stem from the wall. So off to the hardware store I went at 8:00 at night, bought both and 4 and 6 inch faucet and returned home. I looked at the broken stem and found it to be 4.5 inches long! So I taped the 6 inch faucet and screwed it in. All is well except the faucet flange sticks out 1,5 in from the wall so I can not secure it.
Long story, but my question is what can I do about this? There is not a 4.5 inch faucet.
Thanks in advance
Hugh
I had the nice experience the other day of hearing water running outside when the weather in Dallas had dropped to 20 degrees. I went out, and found the faucet running so I turned it off and the whole faucet came off in my hand. Of course the ensuing 3/4 jet of water had an interesting affect on my clothing.
After turning off the house water - and changing clothes, I went out and found the freeze proof faucet had sheared off at the brick line. I was very lucking in that two pairs of vise grips and a pipe wrench managed to remove the faucet stem from the wall. So off to the hardware store I went at 8:00 at night, bought both and 4 and 6 inch faucet and returned home. I looked at the broken stem and found it to be 4.5 inches long! So I taped the 6 inch faucet and screwed it in. All is well except the faucet flange sticks out 1,5 in from the wall so I can not secure it.
Long story, but my question is what can I do about this? There is not a 4.5 inch faucet.
Thanks in advance
Hugh