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I'm going to show you how to fix an outdoor faucet that leaks from around the handle
when the water is turned on but that doesn't leak when the water is turned
off.
So I go ahead and turn this on.
You can see water kind of like
leaking down here, dripping. First, make sure that it's not coming out of the
hose.
But it's not. It's coming down from out here.
It's not the valve inside the faucet. What it is, is this is part right here
is a little loose. What you want to do is make sure the valve
is turned, the faucet is turned all the way open.
Then go ahead and then just tighten this part down a little bit.
You want to tighten it down to where it stops
leaking. But you don't want to tighten it
too much, because otherwise you'll damage
the stuff inside there.
Okay, that looks like about it.
So we go ahead and turn this down.
Dry it up.
Turn it on.
Nope, it's still just a little bit.
Just a little bit more.
But it's very important that you have the valve open when you adjust that.
Because otherwise, if the valve is closed when you do this
it'll actually damage the inside there.
Because it will press the part of the valve in the faucet
down in there.
Nope, just a hair more.
I think I got it. And that's how you fix these things when they're leaking around
the handle
when waters on, but not leaking when the waters off..