Sounds like they insured their future with replacement parts and replacing the whole spigot, who hasn't turned off the hose at the nozzle and forgot the spigot was on til the next day? (leaving the hose hooked up during freezing temps is different), but under pressure for 12 hrs is
I've got a leaker too. At least they left the vice grips. The ferns appreciate the extra moisture. It will get a full replacement, frost-free, anti-siphon...
When I moved in here one of the first things I replaced was a dripping outdoor faucet. I tried new packing on the stem but the stem wasn't very round any more. With "frost free" . It froze and had to be replaced the first Winter and I still shut it off at the shut off in the basement. The current incarnation has the anti-siphon addition and it leaked last Summer but is behaving so far this year. Although it is a multi-turn valve rather than the quarter turn on/off you really can't adjust the flow very low because the anti-siphon shuts the faucet off at too low of a set point.
I ordered these: and I rescheduled the plumber to come next Wednesday. Parts in hand, I'm going to ask him to try and fix it, before he replaces the whole faucet.
Oh, it wasn't a question. A faucet repair or replacement really isn't beyond the scope of a typical handy guy, although you'd think a "real plumber" would know where to get parts or if it is worthwhile. Of course, there are focus within the trade as well. The real plumber I often call is more into installing furnaces, boilers and solar hot water, although with the price of HHO and natural gas he hasn't been doing a lot of solar lately.
Fixed! 10 minutes and $110... The part worked, at least we didn't have to get a new faucet put in. Just in time for pine pollen all over our cars, now we can spray away.
Curious Chaz, what is your profession? $110 is pretty fair for an onsite service company with overheads.......
