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What is this thing for?
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:22 pm
I just noticed that these things are removable from my spickets. All three of my spickets have them. I accidentally removed one the other day to reveal a perfectly normal spicket. Any ideas?? Is this some super cool useful attachment that I am not using correctly?
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Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:23 pm to Jibbajabba
Backflow prevention.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:26 pm to OysterPoBoy
Why have I never seen them on other spickets before? What good do they do?
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:27 pm to Jibbajabba
Let me text my personal home improvement expert and ask him. I'll get back to you.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:27 pm to Jibbajabba
Spigot
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:29 pm to TheHarahanian
Hmmm. I guess I will start spelling that correctly from now on.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:30 pm to Jibbajabba
They stop water from moving back up the hose into your pipes. Not sure why you’d need them. I’ve seen them in food plants when you’re worried about contamination.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:32 pm to Jibbajabba
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I just noticed that these things are removable from my spickets. All three of my spickets have them. I accidentally removed one the other day to reveal a perfectly normal spicket. Any ideas?? Is this some super cool useful attachment that I am not using correctly?
It's spigot!
That device is a hose bibb vacuum breaker. It keeps your garden hose from backflowing into your pipes. That would be bad, for instance, if you have one of those pesticide or lawn feeding sprayer attachments connected to your hose. The vacuum breaker prevents contamination of your house's water supply or, worse, the water main.
This post was edited on 10/15/17 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:34 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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keeps your garden hose from becoming a siphon and contaminating the water supply.
I understand the physics but I can't understand what kind of scenario would allow the hose to become a siphon. Maybe leaving it in a rising swimming pool??
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:35 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:Damnit! I wanted to be the first one to sound smart!
hose bibb vacuum breaker
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:38 pm to Jibbajabba
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I understand the physics but I can't understand what kind of scenario would allow the hose to become a siphon. Maybe leaving it in a rising swimming pool??
Exactly that kind of situation. Imagine the hose is running and the end of it is lying in a pool or in a bucket filled with garden chemicals to dilute them. The homeowner walks away from the hose and then the pressure in the water main plummets. Whatever the end of the hose is submerged in can then start flowing back through the hose into the house's supply and possibly all the way back into the water main. The main pressure then comes back up to normal and nobody has any clue that there was a problem. However, whatever was in that bucket or that pool is now in the plumbing and has contaminated the water supply.
Then, little Jimmy goes to take a shower and gets a face full of pesticide.
This post was edited on 10/15/17 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:40 pm to Jibbajabba
quote:That could be one scenario. The hose could be laying in anything like that or poison, buckets of soap while washing the car, etc... Then, if for some reason the pressure to your water line gets reduced (you shut off the water main, the city shuts off the water for maintenance, etc then the hose could suck that contaminated water into your pipes in your house, or even the city water supply.
Maybe leaving it in a rising swimming pool??
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:41 pm to Jibbajabba
It's for the same thing you were told it was for when you posted this in the Outdoor Board and had it answered in first post, before you posted it here.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:44 pm to Jibbajabba
Those who are saying it's for backflow prevention are correct. It can take some odd circumstances, but the device could save your life.
Any tome the hose bibb is open, if that device is not there, in a backflow situation you could draw nasty shite into the water supply. Say you're mixing up some pesticide with your hose. Someone hits a fire hydrant down the street. If the hose is in the pesticide water, you are now drawing poison into your system.
Some states require an RP at the meter, which is a safeguard for this. There are some stories out there about backflow and cross connection into the supply side, that will make a strong man sick. Think about some of the stuff a mortuary could draw into the water supply. It has happened.
Any tome the hose bibb is open, if that device is not there, in a backflow situation you could draw nasty shite into the water supply. Say you're mixing up some pesticide with your hose. Someone hits a fire hydrant down the street. If the hose is in the pesticide water, you are now drawing poison into your system.
Some states require an RP at the meter, which is a safeguard for this. There are some stories out there about backflow and cross connection into the supply side, that will make a strong man sick. Think about some of the stuff a mortuary could draw into the water supply. It has happened.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:52 pm to Geauxtiga
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Geauxtiga
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:56 pm to Jibbajabba
I believe some munincipalities require them.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 3:57 pm to TheHarahanian
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Spigot
Mind officially blown
Posted on 10/15/17 at 4:02 pm to Jibbajabba
I'm pretty sure I removed those things because they caused flowing water to make an annoying sound.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 4:07 pm to Jibbajabba
I see that ring.
Pics of wife
Pics of wife
Posted on 10/15/17 at 4:11 pm to Sampson
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Spigot
Mind officially blown
Hose bib
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