Replacing An Outdoor Hose Bib

Having a leaky outdoor hose bib can waste a lot of water if the leak gets bad enough and we will show you “how its done” by a professional plumber using ordinary store bought tools and materials.

Step One:

The first thing you will want to do is to locate your existing line in your basement or your wall and get all your material that is required ready ( see list above pictures )

Step Two:

Clean the end of the copper pipe that you will be sweating the copper threaded male adpt on to and also clean the inside of the male adpt and then you can flux or add your soldering paste ( same thing )

Step Three:

Make sure the feed line to your hose bib has an isolation valve so that your not cutting into a live line, or just shut the water main.

Step Four:

Cut the copper water pipe and the go outside and remove the mounting screws from the flange on the hose bib and then slide the hose bib and the copper pipe out of the side of the house.

Step Five:

Now that you have the hose bb out you will want to sweat your male adpt on to the end of your pipe and then once it cools off you will want to teflon tape the male adpt and then thread it into the back side of the hose bib.

More Steps Under Pictures

Step Six:

Measure the length of from end of the male adpt to the end of the pipe you cut and then cut the pipe accordingly so that you have the exact make up of what you removed.

Step Seven:

Slide the copper pipe that is attached to the hose bib back through the wall the same way it came out and screw the screw back into the mounting holes on the flange.

Step Eight:

Now connect your coupling to the two pieces of the half inch copper and then sweat the coupling.

Once you are SURE that your sweat joints are good you may now turn your water supply back on and check for leaks, and if there isn’t and leaks then enjoy your new hose bib!

The materials we used were:

1 female hose bib with mounting collar

1 15″ piece of 1/2″ copper tubing

1 1/2″ thread male by sweat adpt

3 inches solder / some soldering paste

8 inches teflon tape