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Mike asks, “ I have a block house with cedar siding and copper plumbing. I need to change the valve from the water hose because it’s leaking. But the bib is flush with the wall and the handle won’t come off. How do you change those?” Well Mike, most of those valves are either sweated on, glued on if it’s PVC type. If it’s copper, like yours, then they usually will have a threaded end on the end of it, so you actually need to take a look at the back where the bib comes out of the wall. If you got a place so you can put a wrench on it, just put it on there and you’ll be able to turn it right off of there. Typically that’s what you’re going to find, but you may find PVC that’s glued on there, so you have to be careful how you cut that off and how you connect. Copper can be replaced by unscrewing the pieces. Basically you just put a crescent wrench on it and turn it and unscrew it and then screw a new one in. Any time you do any plumbing, you want to make sure that you shut the main off before the water goes into the house, so that that way when you unscrew it you’re not getting water all over the place. Usually it would just be taking a crescent wrench and removing it and putting a new one on. You’re going to need two wrenches though; one to go on the wall, because you want to hold that at the center block and then the other one to turn. What you don’t want to do is apply so much pressure that it breaks it off. Jared Mellick and his father Ken Mellick are the owners of Central Florida’s premier construction company Universal Roof & Contracting, a family-run business which has been serving homeowners in the Greater Orlando area for nearly 20 years. For more information on home improvement and repairs visit our website at http://www.universalroof.com/.
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