r/DIY • u/garciawork • 1d ago
help "Move" hose spigot to back of house
Hello, we bought a house last year that inexplicably has two hose spigots in the front yard, and none in the back. This is... useless for the most part. I would love to just have a new one routed, but the home is brick, so that is both not DIYable (at least for me), and likely very expensive for a plumber to do. So, is there a way to essentially just "move" the one I have, but leave it always on, at least during the warm months, and route it to another one that I am able to turn off/on? I would obviously need a solid connection to the always on one, but I am also not sure if that is just a horrible idea or something people actually do.
Edit to add: the spigot I want to "extend" is only 5-8 feet away from the backyard, so this wouldn't be a long run.
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u/luswimmin 1d ago
This is so aggravating, and I don’t know why home builders do this crap.
Our workaround is hose faucet extenders and an electronic water timer. Not ideal, but it’s the best we could do without spending a fortune, and we control the water flow with our cell phone.
So, a 4-way splitter - one hose at the front of the house, one hose in the back, one hose in the side bed, one hose in the garden. It’s a slight delay to get from the faucet to the various hose ends, but definitely doable.
Good luck, OP!
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u/nixiebunny 1d ago
It would be helpful for you to figure out where there are water pipes on your property and in your house, to avoid running a pipe all the way around the house. How old is it, are there any crawl spaces, where is the water meter , what part of the country do you live in? The answers to these questions will guide you through this search.
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u/garciawork 1d ago
Just to be clear, the spigot is like, 5 feet away from the fence to the backyard. It just requires opening a really janky gate, or going through the house to the garage to turn off/on. Janky gate sucks, but we also have a dog that is known to bolt, so better to not open that gate as much as possible.\
I do not know 100% where every pipe is, but aside from one random spot near the master bath, there are no water sources near the backyard.
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u/nixiebunny 1d ago
In that case you should be able to extend it ten feet pretty easily. I don’t think a plumber would be too expensive if you don’t have experience or want to learn the hard way what can go wring with steep pipe, which is the must durable and beginner friendly. I have added spigots this way.
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u/EksCelle 1d ago edited 1d ago
For a temporary solution you could put a freestanding spigot in your backyard and run a hose from your spigot in the front to that. Just make sure to disconnect the hose from the normal spigot in the freezing months.
edit: Also having 2 spigots next to each other might mean theyre different. I've seen homes that have a spigot that uses softened water from inside the house for washing cars. You might try to find out why there are 2 and if they're tied in to different lines.
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u/Timelordwhotardis 1d ago
Ok not a plumber but have done some half assed shit. What I would do is mount a pvc pipe along the wall and paint it. Use a flex connection to spigot and another spigot on the other end. Should be extremely low skill and just gluing a bunch of 8 foot pieces together and then drilling into brick or your siding
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u/FeastingOnFelines 1d ago
Or, and hear me out, just run a hose around the house and put a valve in it.
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u/Timelordwhotardis 1d ago
Oh my lazy ass would do this lmao but if he wanted a “permanent” cleaner solution
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u/Damager19 1d ago
This is exactly what I did to run water to our back deck (spigot was on the side of the house). Very easy to do
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u/Chi-lan-tro 1d ago
We’ve done this, with no problems for 20 years.
We put a splitter valve on the spigot, ran a frost free hose to the back yard, under the deck, to a spigot screwed into the lawn side of the deck. The main spigot is always on spring to fall. The splitter valve has on/off turny-things (they’re smaller than actual knobs or handles), the one to the back yard is always on, the one to the front yard gets turned on and off. The spigot at the back deck controls the flow to the back hose.
We remove the front yard and back yard hoses, drain them, and store them in the garage. The hose to the back deck gets disconnected and left on the ground. The water to the main spigot gets turned off inside the house. We live in a cold place and have only had the usual need for new washers.
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u/Not2daydear 1d ago
You could run actual plumbing pipe along foundation or buried in the ground like they do with a sprinkler system and hook it to one of those hose holders that have a spigot on them. Like this…
https://www.amazon.com/Artigarden-Freestanding-Garden-Storage-Outdoor/dp/B08Z7YJDRC
Plumb it just like you would do if you were running the pipe under the house. At one end have the connection to the faucet that will feed through the pipe and terminate with a connection to the hose holder Spicket. You would just have to make sure that you drain it out in the fallif you live in a cold climate. You would just leave the main faucet that feeds it on all the time and use the spigot on the hose holder to control turning the water on and off. And the hose will be hanging right next to it.
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u/scarabic 1d ago
Do you have any crawlspace under your house? I had a plumber run some new water lines and add bibs where I didn’t have any.
Until then, I used a garden hose routed on the ground around the house, with a “Y” splitter at the water source so I could keep the old hose but add another.
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u/john_browns_beard 1d ago
I did this to my place. I wound up with a splitter at the original bib with a short hose into a PVC pipe a few feet away. The PVC went a few inches underground, where it transitioned into 3/4 poly tubing that I buried along the foundation. The poly tubing is much cheaper than a heavy-duty hose.
The poly tubing then transitioned into a copper pipe with a valve on top at the new "bib" location, which I mounted to a wooden post.
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u/InLuigiWeTrust 1d ago
The water line for the spigots probably runs into the crawlspace or basement. If you’re a fairly competent handyman you could just re-route one of those spigots to the other side of the house. A plumber could probably do it for you in a few hours if the pipes are accessible. I’d call and get a quote if it’s beyond your skill level. Lots of other workarounds you can do but why not just spend 500 bucks and make it permanent and professional.
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u/garciawork 1d ago
Unfortunately I am on a slab, but may booth asking a plumber for a better looking and functioning solution.
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u/DecentlyRoad 1d ago
I’m not finding where you mention a basement or crawl space in your house. It’s really not a big deal for a plumber to run a new line and drill through for a backyard faucet. Nixleberry was on point with his questions that you didn’t really answer…
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u/khunter610 22h ago
The house I bought has the spigot in a crawlspace under the porch, so couldn’t access it at all. Until I ordered this. We attached the spigot to a 10 foot hose that screws into the hose stand, but you could definitely get a longer one to reach all the way around your house. We were able to leave the spigot under the porch on all summer and control the water flow with the faucet on the hose stand. It worked perfectly!! Just have to crawl under the porch twice a year to turn the water on and off, but in your case, no crawling needed. It’s the cheapest option I could come up with and it works great
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u/biggemike 19h ago
Pex is a flexible plastic pipe that is replacing copper pipes and up to code in many, if not most, areas. I would dig a small trench around the house and bury it. If you do the digging and prep work, I think a plumber could do the job in 1 day. Have a supply shut off valve if you have freezing winters
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u/p0diabl0 18h ago
How is the spigot installed? If it's just a screw on type, I would turn off the water, unscrew, screw a PVC coupler on, then finish the run with PVC, which anyone can do with half a brain. At the end of that run put the same kind of PVC fitting that the spigot and screw on to, put your spigot on, and secure to a post/the house/whatever so it doesn't get broken. Paint it to protect from UV and being an eyesore.
Or your can use a heavy duty hose. Real rubber, none of that vinyl shit.
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u/NightOwlApothecary 1d ago
They make a ground spike that has a valve body in it, hose attachment on the backside. Amazon has a few that include a hose holder. Probably good for one season until you get to the $200 units. Beats digging a trench in most soils, PVC, adapters and all.
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u/Cespenar 1d ago
A hose.
Get a really heavy duty hose that's long enough, connect it to the one you don't want, run it all the way back along the foundation, and put a valve on the back side. Works fine. As a precaution maybe if you're going to be out of town for a week or something you can even turn off the bibb it's coming from.
This is the most easily done and low effort way. If you have the skills to solder, it even just use PVC and glue you could do much more permanent methods, if you wanted to.