SILL COCKS

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SILL COCKS

Author: calio99 (SD)

So I replaced the outdoor faucet with a threaded 3/4 adapter into a 1/2 female. Got a new sill cock from menards and thought my split sill cock was history. Well got it all finally installed and turned the water on and the pressure is horrible. After reading all these posts, the only thing I can think of is that after sweating the adapter to the mainline for a while that some of the copper melted and blocked the line partially? What else could it be besides a faulty sill cock. The pressure everywhere else is normal, other sill cocks also. WHAT COULD IT BE

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Re: SILL COCKS
Author: bernabeu (SC) does the water flow OK without the sillcock ? ============================================== "Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638
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Re: SILL COCKS
Author: iplumb (MA) could be that your shutoff for he silcock is faulty..as asked prior, check the flow before connecting the silcock..good luck
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Re: SILL COCKS
Author: hj (AZ) One thing it CANNOT be is "melted copper blocking the line". We do not know how you attached the new valve, or what you did at the time, so we cannot tell you what, if anything, you did wrong.
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