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honkicracker said:
I believe it's galvanized, as I remember looking at shiny silver with the spigot I changed when I first moved in.
But I'm not entirely sure as that was a few years ago.
I think I'll try to put this valve piece back in and see if it leaks out the handle with a hose like you suggested.
If it doesn't I'll see if I can't figure out how to put a spigot on a spigot.
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That brass gate from Amazon that I linked to would be sold in the garden hose section, not the plumbing section. They come in brass, metal and plastic. Brass is best. You could do a spigot on a spigot or put a gate on the end of the spigot. A gate would be the easiest.

BTW, if you end up replacing the spigot and you own the home I personally like ball cock valves over a standard spigot. Cost a little more, last much longer.

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SlyPokerDog said:
Replace the o ring if you put it back in.

Are the pipes under your house copper, galvanized, or PVC?

What kind of pipe is your spigot connected to? If it's copper you have to be really careful twisting off the spigot, copper is soft and twists easily. PVC also breaks easily. If it's galvanized you can wrench on that shit pretty hard.

I would try to put the handle back on, screw on a garden hose with a sprayer on the end that is shut off and turn on the water supply to the hose. If it leaks out the handle you can watch a couple of videos on youtube on how to fix the handle. If isn't leaking you can then put a spigot on your spigot.

Without a lot of experience in do-it-yourself plumbing I would try to keep your fixes as simple as possible.
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Unfortunately putting everything back together caused it to leak out the handle.

The issue why I couldn't find a new valve replacement was the small metal piece on the end of it along with the o-ring. As they don't make that part anymore.
So I'll have to figure out how to stop it from leaking out the handle if I go with spigot on spigot.

Side note, I'm a little annoyed this morning. I went down to the street to shut off the water last night. Apparently it didn't shut off, slowed to a trickle. But not completely to keep the meter from going up .7

I'm tempted to just wrench on it and pray copper doesn't come in silver.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
That brass gate from Amazon that I linked to would be sold in the garden hose section, not the plumbing section. They come in brass, metal and plastic. Brass is best. You could do a spigot on a spigot or put a gate on the end of the spigot. A gate would be the easiest.

BTW, if you end up replacing the spigot and you own the home I personally like ball cock valves over a standard spigot. Cost a little more, last much longer.

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I do own the house, it's my first home purchase. Nothing fancy, and I will be looking to sell soonish as the value has gone up by about 50-100k since I bought it.
 
honkicracker said:
Unfortunately putting everything back together caused it to leak out the handle.

The issue why I couldn't find a new valve replacement was the small metal piece on the end of it along with the o-ring. As they don't make that part anymore.
So I'll have to figure out how to stop it from leaking out the handle if I go with spigot on spigot.

Side note, I'm a little annoyed this morning. I went down to the street to shut off the water last night. Apparently it didn't shut off, slowed to a trickle. But not completely to keep the meter from going up .7

I'm tempted to just wrench on it and pray copper doesn't come in silver.
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Copper doesn't come in silver, also if it were copper in the ground it would have green tarnishing.
 
honkicracker said:
I do own the house, it's my first home purchase. Nothing fancy, and I will be looking to sell soonish as the value has gone up by about 50-100k since I bought it.
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First, I'm not a plumber, I just have done a shit ton of my own plumbing. That doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about.

If you are going to sell your house soon then a spigot on a spigot won't pass a home inspection. A spigot on a spigot is a fix but not a repair.

Soooo...

What exactly are you going to do under your house to your pipes to fix this?

If you're going to unscrew a pipe from a pipe fitting and if you see where you can, you should get some of these and screw them to the floor joist on the part of the pipe you aren't removing. That way you when you are wrenching on the pipe the other pipe that you're trying to free it from isn't twisting or bending.

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I would still try to use a pipe wrench and twist the old spigot off the end of the pipe instead of crawling under the house and unscrewing the pipe the spigot is connected to from the part it's screwed into.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
First, I'm not a plumber, I just have done a shit ton of my own plumbing. That doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about.

If you are going to sell your house soon then a spigot on a spigot won't pass a home inspection. A spigot on a spigot is a fix but not a repair.

Soooo...

What exactly are you going to do under your house to your pipes to fix this?

If you're going to unscrew a pipe from a pipe fitting and if you see where you can, you should get some of these and screw them to the floor joist on the part of the pipe you aren't removing. That way you when you are wrenching on the pipe the other pipe that you're trying to free it from isn't twisting or bending.

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I would still try to use a pipe wrench and twist the old spigot off the end of the pipe instead of crawling under the house and unscrewing the pipe the spigot is connected to from the part it's screwed into.
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Also, if your pipes are copper DO NOT USE a galvanized bracket. Same if the pipe is galvanized DO NOT USE a copper bracket. Copper and galvanized don't like each other.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
First, I'm not a plumber, I just have done a shit ton of my own plumbing. That doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about.

If you are going to sell your house soon then a spigot on a spigot won't pass a home inspection. A spigot on a spigot is a fix but not a repair.

Soooo...

What exactly are you going to do under your house to your pipes to fix this?

If you're going to unscrew a pipe from a pipe fitting and if you see where you can, you should get some of these and screw them to the floor joist on the part of the pipe you aren't removing. That way you when you are wrenching on the pipe the other pipe that you're trying to free it from isn't twisting or bending.

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I would still try to use a pipe wrench and twist the old spigot off the end of the pipe instead of crawling under the house and unscrewing the pipe the spigot is connected to from the part it's screwed into.
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I'm prolly just going to end up trying to twist the old spigot off and hope for the best. I'm like 99% sure all of the pipe under my house was silver when I took the other one off and replaced isolation due to it cracking. I'm assuming galvanized pipe is silver. I know for a fact it wasn't pvc pipe.
Worst case my house is without water until I hire a plumber to the damage I caused.
 
Well I decided against crawling under the house.
However I made a hole under the spigot in the wood so I could get to it.
Replaced the spigot entirely and it's not leaking. Took out the wet insolation because even though the shut off valve on the street was closed. It still allowed a good bit of water to drain.
I'll replace the wet insolation, and fix the hole this weekend. I want to make sure it's not leaking. Plus with a bit of air getting in there it should dry anything out I missed. Well in theory...
I also plan on getting one of those electrical wires that you wrap around your pipe. They turn on if it drops under freezing. I don't ever want to do this again so the more preventative maintenance I do the better.

Thank you for the advice @SlyPokerDog and whomever else gave advice.
 
honkicracker said:
Well I decided against crawling under the house.
However I made a hole under the spigot in the wood so I could get to it.
Replaced the spigot entirely and it's not leaking. Took out the wet insolation because even though the shut off valve on the street was closed. It still allowed a good bit of water to drain.
I'll replace the wet insolation, and fix the hole this weekend. I want to make sure it's not leaking. Plus with a bit of air getting in there it should dry anything out I missed. Well in theory...
I also plan on getting one of those electrical wires that you wrap around your pipe. They turn on if it drops under freezing. I don't ever want to do this again so the more preventative maintenance I do the better.

Thank you for the advice @SlyPokerDog and whomever else gave advice.
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Glad to hear it's fixed and the fix didn't lead to other problems, lol.

But I'm sure the spiders are disappointed you didn't come and visit them.
 
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