Repairing (garden) hose bibbs?
IMHO unless the HB is new enough to match the insides with the exact same brand, model et – replace the darn thing. You can try , but , I just don’t seem to have permanent success when I just repair them. Now to replace them- if they come through the wall under the house then they can be unscrewed or unsoldered from the crawl space. If it is above the floor a “window” has to opened in the wall. Just unscrewing it from outside will often result in a broken pipe in the wall. Polybutylene Pipe?From: “Garold (Gary) Stone ” (grstone@clark.net) LATEST NEWS: A Washington Post article on June 15, page F4, reports that homeowners who had polybutylene plastic pipes breaks before August 21, 1995, have only until August 21, 1996 to file a claim for reimbursement from the Consumer Plumbing Recovery Center at area 800 867-4698. About 37,000 homeowners have had their polybutylene plumbing replaced so far, under the terms of the national class action settlement. On November 8, 1995 a national 950 mill
