NEVER Have Leaky Or Frozen Outdoor Faucets Again! Replace It With This! EASY How To DIY!

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@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

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@DarrellWefel-ts2kr 2 ай бұрын

I've been using this styrofoam cover for over 14 years and I've never had a frozen pipe yet !!!

@1969EType 2 ай бұрын

Agreed…I’m sure it depends on what your climate is, how low your temps get and how many days consecutively you see those low temperatures. I see maybe a week (non-consecutively) of single digits throughout winter. Like you I use the styrofoam cap and have never had any problems.

@markmanning5683 2 ай бұрын

Styrofoam cover is a lot cheaper too. Styrofoam cover you can add more insulation under it if you need. Save Big $$$$

@franksullivan1873 Ай бұрын

Me too.

@Fred_the_Head Ай бұрын

Where do you live? North Dakota or Florida?

@RondoHunter3.14 Ай бұрын

@@Fred_the_Head Florida here. On those handful of days that is USED to freeze overnight (those days are gone) we generally just let the outside taps drip. It just doesn't get cold enough to freeze moving water.

@SooperToober 2 ай бұрын

You're a great teacher - I learn so much from you. very clear and patient and thorough...thanks.

@johnkanan5727 3 ай бұрын

We love your video's, that will come in handy for our winter's in Michigan. Thanks we love your video's. ❤

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend! Stay warm and safe this winter! 🙏🏽😊

@keenapowell8715 3 ай бұрын

Looks SO Clean!!! GREAT JOB-every time!!!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend! 🙏🏽😊

@kolitiokada9825 3 ай бұрын

Sweet set-up! Looks great, slick function, and eliminates freeze concerns!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏽

@kerplunk38880 3 ай бұрын

This doesn’t eliminate the freezing concerns at all.

@leslieapplegate65 3 ай бұрын

Looks very nice!! Great not to have to worry about frozen pipes!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Yes, no more worry yearly!

@ecospider5 2 ай бұрын

I don’t like the non standard access to the water from outside. But this made me think of installing a section of pex and a shutoff valve inside. Thanks for the inspiration.

@HollisHumphries 3 ай бұрын

Good job! Quality done right all the time. Love your videos.

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏🏽😊

@dolfinwriter5389 3 ай бұрын

Great video. I have a leaking spigot that I need to replace on back side of my house coming from under my kitchen sink for the backyard garden hose. I seriously thought of going with this product until I read all of the reviews on Amazon. Consensus is they are hard to disconnect and they fail after about four years if they last that long. So I'll be going with a traditional frost free type of spigot instead of this. I don't want my wife to have to fight it to disconnect it or reconnect it to water the garden or wash out and refill her birdbath.

@FredD63 2 ай бұрын

The clamp you used was an oetiker clamp they used to use them. They may still in automotive use they come in stainless steel your outside wall should be insulated so you have no freeze problems with that water line and using the Styrofoam covers for the conventional Silcock. It’s a good idea to use those in cold weather states not everybody has the style that you just installed. I hope it works out good for you…. Good video 🇺🇸👊🏼👊🏼✌🏼🪚🔨

@baddad5781 3 ай бұрын

Love your channel and videos guy. This was very informative. Thanks again for sharing

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the love and support! 🙏🏽😊

@altonyee4488 21 күн бұрын

What will do if you do find a leak at the crimped connection? Good straightforward, educating and entertaining videos! Keep up the good work. 😃👍

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

Remove the crimping ring and try again....these PEX fittings are pretty much fail safe

@luv2hike27 2 ай бұрын

Got news for you, these covers work! I have a "frost proof" hose spigot, this one faces west, brutal -20f winds with even colder windshield. The "frost proof" spigot is metal, it conducts ambient temperatures. This one in question is 18" long and a copper toilet line tee's near the end. The copper got so cold on my toilet line that it froze the valve solid. Yes I keep the nearby sink and tub on a trickle but the toilet Tee is after the sink, so the toilet wouldn't fill the tank. So I had to put a small space heater next to the toilet to thaw it out. Can't keep the toilet on trickle very easily. So I added a short section of water line heat tape that only comes on below 40f ( installed and access panel in the closet behind the toilet) also put the aforementioned spigot cover on outside and added some fiberglass batting to ensure no air blows in. Cheap insurance instead of a busted frozen pipe and ensuing damage.

@ecospider5 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like a well designed solution. Good job.

@ronm6585 3 ай бұрын

Great option. Thanks for sharing.

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Ron!!

@proudtexan5513 3 ай бұрын

Excellent job!!!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏🏽😊👍🏽

@xordoom8467 3 ай бұрын

Great idea 💡

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@GCGomez 2 ай бұрын

Your videos are excellent. 👍

@anthonymarino4260 2 ай бұрын

THANKS GREAT VID. WELL DONE

@michelleholbrook9639 3 ай бұрын

Looks great! Thank you!

@spankymagee 3 ай бұрын

Looks real nice brother. 👌

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 👍🏽🙏🏽

@joelrflores 3 ай бұрын

Great vid!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏🏽😊

@MrPir84free 2 ай бұрын

Lucky you. There are two outside faucets on my house; the builder decided to put one of the faucets at a level that is just before a decorative "shelf" in brick; so the standard cone shaped styrofoam does not work. Worse, the water line is in between the studs, but behind a full shower/bathtub, so I'd literally have to remove everything from the bathroom, including the tub in order to do such a mod. So, instead, I'm forced to use a Freeze Miser on the external faucet now; I used to have a non-cone shaped styrofoam cover, but that disappeared one year. So, now- freeze miser.

@JT_70 Ай бұрын

The original siding installer was lazy. We always measure and cut the right sized hole the slip the siding over the hose bib before the faucet is attached

@billnict1 2 ай бұрын

I have freeze proof outdoor faucets on my house but I still use the styrofoam caps in the winter to stop heat transfer from inside the house through the metal of the faucet...

@christophermarvin85 3 ай бұрын

I use them every year in the winter time. And turn off the water. With no problem so far 😊

@johndominick67 3 ай бұрын

Great idea and execution!!

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! 🙏🏽😊

@injuneer7942 3 ай бұрын

Looks great but there are a LOT of houses where this goes through the brick. Would be nice to see you do an installation through brick or any mason type .....

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Please stay tuned! I’ll try to do a brick install.

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

Typically the spigot going through concrete or block/brick is running to the water main in the basement between the floor joists

@DarrellWefel-ts2kr 2 ай бұрын

I live in Michigan it gets a whole lot colder up here than it does down there !!!

@MrPir84free 2 ай бұрын

But often the builders of homes further south do not build with the concept of sub-freezing temperatures. This is probably worse, as builders have absolutely no compunctions about poorly insulating the walls, and no desire to do beyond what is required by code. IOW, no desire to do better...

@genevelis6075 3 ай бұрын

I like it! Thanks! Do you use PEX A or B, and why?

@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I like PEX B, PEX a with the expansion fittings I just had a bad experience with leaks on those. I’ll make a future video explaining why. Please stay tuned! 👍🏽🙏🏽😊

@genevelis6075 3 ай бұрын

@FixThisHouse Thanks! I like PEX B too. It does not give plastic taste in the water, more rigid and stronger - can withhold more pressure/PSI. Some contractors like PEX A, because it's more flexible and easier to work with, but it leaches chemicals into the water - not healthy.

@markb.1259 Ай бұрын

1:38- Correct me if I'm wrong, but the spigot you removed looked to be a freeze proof spigot.

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

It was but it ran past the framing in what will be a finished wall and this is his solution to bury it in the wall which works....for a price$

@rockymarquiss8327 3 ай бұрын

I'm concerned that it would freeze when it gets 10 below zero - the water is right along the wall - how does it keep from breaking the line? The old standby has the water valve itself quite a ways back so it's away from the wall.

@scottsachs2547 3 ай бұрын

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@FixThisHouse 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏽 😊

@razinfishes1918 Ай бұрын

Yea I would to do that but my home is all Brick and IU have 4 water spickets on my home. 3 of those would be on the interior parts of the house I would have to tear into walls so that isnt happening then i do have one on my garage wall which is possible to remove the interior wall. but dealing with the outside brick would be a big problem for me

@lcjlcj2739 3 ай бұрын

Dude can you reduce the sound level of those cutting drilling operations in editing the video ? Eg 4:37 it’s much noisier than your normal talking sound level especially when I am using earphones

@avtarchana609 2 ай бұрын

It looks like a US solution. Haven't seen this in Europe 🙏

@ecospider5 2 ай бұрын

Great quality product. I just don’t like the non standard access to the water supply.

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

There was a shut off under the floor, in the basement where he rerouted the PEX

@buydirectusa4954 3 ай бұрын

Looks great where is it made?

@DavidNelsonATX 2 ай бұрын

Not useful in my scenario: brick exterior w/slab on grade. I like the concept though.

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

For all you people saying I'll stick with the foam cover , did you not watch the video? 😂 The spigot is going into a wall that will be a finished wall. The spigot he installed will be plumbed inside the wall and not sticking through it and it's a frost proff spigot 🙄

@lcjlcj2739 3 ай бұрын

It’s not an easy upgrading. Would only think about it when existing faucet is broken. Lol

@tuckertruckerpatriot312 Ай бұрын

Wrap a bath towel around it and it lasts through the winter without any freezing problems thru mid teen temps. In the spring take it off, wash it, fold it and use it again next winter. Work 0% effectiveness 100%

@franksullivan1873 Ай бұрын

Might as well keep using the spigot cover,it’s cheaper.

@TheTalonts 2 ай бұрын

It's nice but the price is insane. $150 with no volume control? I'll stick with $1 covers.

@damiandriscoll2562 18 күн бұрын

Did you not watch the video? 😂 The spigot is going into a wall that will be a finished wall. The spigot he installed will be plumbed inside the wall and not sticking through it and there is a shut off in the basement where he rerouted the PEX 🙄

@TheTalonts 18 күн бұрын

@@damiandriscoll2562 - Did you not watch the video? THERE IS NO CONTROL ON THE VOLUME OF WATER. For $150, the fact that is has NO volume control is ludicrous. You have to spend $200 to get an elbow with a simple ball valve in it. This is ludicrously overpriced. FFS, moron, if you're going to reply to my comment, at least make it about my comment.

@krazyj1957 Ай бұрын

Let's see you do it on our brick home.

@pickin4you Ай бұрын

Hint to the DIY’er. They have spigots specifically for outdoors. They are long and are built NOT to freeze. You are using the wrong stuff. I am 63 and the winters whee I live can get below 0. I have never seen anyone use a cover before and not one of my spigots have ever frozen. If you use the proper ones it won’t happen to you either.

@jeffreythompson1196 Ай бұрын

So show me how this gets done with a brick veneer house. Doesn’t look all that easy!

@SnowRaver-p2v 2 ай бұрын

It's too expensive. Plastic parts that will break or get lost. What happens if this company goes out of business or changes their design in 10 years and you can't get that plastic adapter anymore? You have a useless hole in your wall that has water just out of reach. I'm all for new technology. But no. I think this company sells a hot/cold combo for like $300! It's insane.