11-12-2011, 06:30 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. I'd like to think they installed a frost free (since we are in New England), but I don't know for certain. Even if it is, it trickled for a long while before I decided to shut it off at the outside spigot just so it wouldn't continue forever.
And just to be clear, the outside spigot does shut off completely. If I leave it open to remove water in the pipes, it trickles out because the inside shutoff valve doesn't seem to want to shut off the water.
So assuming you do mean the inside shutoff, what do you mean by "remove the whole stem"? And I would assume I'd have to shut off the main house water supply first.
And just to be clear, the outside spigot does shut off completely. If I leave it open to remove water in the pipes, it trickles out because the inside shutoff valve doesn't seem to want to shut off the water.
So assuming you do mean the inside shutoff, what do you mean by "remove the whole stem"? And I would assume I'd have to shut off the main house water supply first.