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Old 1/26/08, 2:15 AM
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Should the piping as seen in this pic be showing. Or should it be covered by stucco.
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Gary,

It's a miracle, they actually tooled a sealant joint around the sillcock..looks good the way it is from here...but FL is a different world especially Disney City

Why is the stucco in the grass?...block or concrete?



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Was going to ask the same question. Is this EIFS?
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Was going to ask the same question. Is this EIFS?
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That actually looks like something someone made up out of a boiler drain.
In my neck of the woods ,where it freezes in winter, we use frost proof /anti-siphon hydrants that have a plastic flange that screws to the wall leaving no visible pipe.
Does florida require anti-siphon hydrants? That one appears not to be.
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That actually looks like something someone made up out of a boiler drain.
In my neck of the woods ,where it freezes in winter, we use frost proof /anti-siphon hydrants that have a plastic flange that screws to the wall leaving no visible pipe.
Does florida require anti-siphon hydrants? That one appears not to be.
It looks like it may have something like this

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Thank you Mr.Kage.
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Perhaps things are done differently a hunnert miles north of here, but in this area we don't use EIFS (thankfully!), and the hose bib looks to be a normal installation.



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Default Re: Outside Spigot

We still see a few of those around although most of them have been replaced with freezeless hydrants.

It's actually a MIP boiler drain screwed into a FIP fitting (maybe a 1/2 galvanized coupling) being used as a sillcock.
About the only difference between a boiler drain and a sillcock is the sillcock has a flange with screw slots and female threads.

It's supply pipe has to be shut off and drained in cold weather anyway so other than aesthetics, it really doesn't matter how much of it is hidden.
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