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PLUMBERS A repeat plug for Hank English the Plumber (on the website). Prompt, curteous, fair price, good work (ball valves...), painfully honest ("your main line here is brass - I'll be gentle but I may break it and that will be very expensive...") and he spent 15 or so minutes of his own time touring me around the seized, rusting, weeping nightmare that is the plumbing in my basement (and which had nothing whatever to do with the 3rd floor kitchen job) giving simple, non-self- interested advice (e.g. "never touch that"). Cleaned up. And yes, he didn't break the main... -h I need a plumber. Seems when I turn on the water in the basement to open the spigot outside, the valve in the basement leaks. I put a bucket under it with the valve open (so I could do yard work) and within 2 hours I had almost an inch of water in the bucket. If I turn off the basement valve it does NOT leak. So I'm not desprite, but it's annoying to have to go in the basement each time I have to use out outside spigot. btw, it leaks whether the outside spigot is on or off. --karyn I had this happen too; there was a long green stain down the wall below the shutoff. I replaced the whole stupid setup with one of those recessed-shutoff valves; works great. And no extra shutoff to keep it from freezing. Get the one with the "anti-siphon" feature; then you don't need to disconnect the hose to let it drain. --dca First, try tightening the packing nut, if it's a conventional valve. The packing could just be loose (this would make water drip around the valve shaft). Here's a side view, warning, BUAG ahead: (==============) <-- valve handle, or knob Unless the packing is really worn, this ought to stop it. Worn packing can be replaced but get a plumbing book first to get a better idea of the internal parts of a valve before you take it apart. You can also mitigate the drip by opening the valve (which is really a shutoff) until it stops and then cranking it "tighter open" to compress the packing so it stops leaking. If all else fails, look up the e-j website tradesmen page and have Hank install a ball valve which won't have these problems and flows better too. -- Larry |
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