If your neighbors house is on fire and there are firemen using fire hoses to put it out the amount back pressure needed could actually suck the dirty water out of the bucket your using to wash your car.
Backflow preventer exterior faucet.
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Back flow preventers are devices that are often times added on to the end of a hose spigot.
This testing is required for sprinkler systems.
Looking at your bib at the house siding its not secured.
This will prevent you from busting the water pipe and really making a mess.
Threads are standard and if you want to hedge you bet give it a squirt or two of liquid wrench to loosen things up before applying pressure with a vice grip or water pump pliers to remove it.
The purpose of a backflow preventer on a garden hose spigot is to prevent tainted water from entering the drinking water system.
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Never heard of what aggie is talking about for an outside faucet.
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Let me explain it like this.
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A backflow preventer is a handy 5 add on to a hose faucet that should be easy to remove and replace.
Central backflow preventer for exterior faucets i recently had the backflow preventer on one of my faucets break because it was attached to a water timer.
The fitting closest to the faucet must unscrew ccw.
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Use a second wrench on the faucet torquing in the opposite direction to the wrench on the backflow adapter.
On a sprinkler system it is called a backflow preventer and is much more complicated.
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I say should be because i have also seen them seemingly fused to the hose faucet too.
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On a faucet it is called a vacuum breaker.
If there was no back flow preventor on the.
Apparently backflow preventers don t work well under constant pressure i e the faucet was left on and the water timer was off most of the time placing the backflow preventer under constant stress.
Let think positive and try to simply remove it.