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Hey everybody! It's Jeff, and I wanted to show you wanted I needed to do to put a frost
free sillcock on the outside of my house. So this is the pipe that's entering the house,
and it's coming from the outside through this wall plate and traveling the whole way into
my basement. And I will show you here in a second where I need to shut off the water
on the inside of the house so that I can effect make this cut where that line is, where that
Sharpie mark is, and then put the new frost free sillcock in place. So let me show you
where I have to shut off the water. A few weeks back, I replaced this section
of pipe with shark bite fittings and put in a new shutoff valve. So the shutoff valve
is already in the off position, and all I need to do is drain the water on the outside
of the house so that I can cut out the old sillcock and put in a new one. So I'll go
ahead and show you how to do that. Okay, this is the old sillcock on the outside
here, and I want to replace it because it's not a frost free hose bib. So what I need
to do is drain all the water out which is the whole way off—I mean the whole way on,
excuse me—so I must've turned it on and drained it out before. And that's good because
once I cut this pipe on the inside of the house, once I cut the copper pipe on the inside
of the house, I'm just going to pull this out, measure it, and use that measurement
to figure out how long my new frost free sillcock needs to be in addition to the shark bite
fittings that I'd put on. So let's go ahead and do that.
Okay, what I'm going to do now is cut this pipe out with this auto-cut tool that I love.
And this is a really tight space. There's going to be water that comes out of this pipe,
but I'm going to cut this pipe, and then I'm going to pull the old sillcock out of the
wall on the outside of the house. Let's see here. In a few seconds, there'll be water
that'll come out of this—or maybe not, if I'm lucky. Well, there we go. All right? We'll
let that drain. And then I can easily pull the pipe from the outside of the house, and
we'll measure the new sillcock and how long it needs to be with the shark bit fittings.
Okay, here's the sillcock, the old sillcock. Just be able to pull this out of the wall.
You can see here it's not very long. So what I'll need to do is figure out how to put the
new sillcock on so that it fits along with the shark bit fittings. So let's go ahead
and do that.