Hi there-
I’ve wandered over from the Cook’s Talk Forum, but I think you folks can probably help me along here.
I’m trying to get my bathroom ready to be, in part, a sometimes darkroom. I recently purchased a small garden hose and a … the type of faucet that you would find outside, that you would attach the hose to.
I bought these with the idea of attaching them to my bathtub faucet. Since I am more of a shower person, the outside faucet could stay attached without me having to worry about yanking it on and off all the time.
When I got home, I couldn’t seem to find anyway to get the faucet off. There were no screws or anything. There was a hole on the bottom, towards the back, but there didn’t seem to be anything in there that I could grab onto.
I ended up taking off my shower head, and everything was fine. But it was sort of a pain to take it off, attach the new faucet/hose, then yank everything back off again.
Is there some feature of this faucet that I am missing? Thank you for your insight.
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Hi S'kat,
Take a mirror and look up in that hole under the faucet and there is a set screw.
Unscrew it with an allen wrench and the fixture should slide off the pipe.
Have fun,
Dick
Great... thanks, Dick, I really appreciate it!
In addition to the way Dick described it, many faucets are threaded onto a steel pipe. You can unscrew the the faucet spout from the supply pipe.
Best of luck
One other quik idea (not sure how bright it is though). Most sinks have a tip that are srewed on, you could unscrew and hook up a water bed filler kit. Those filler kits have adapters that screw into the sink and the other end has a standard hose hookup.
What exactly is a water bed filler kit?
It's a gizmo that screws onto the existing faucet where the aereator (sp?) goes. Has the same fine threads as the faucet on one end & hose fitting on the other.
Bathtub filler will many times twist off without worrying about the allen screw. If it's old, the whole thing is likely to break off at the threads, leaving a rusted stump to deal with. Be careful or you might end up with more than you are equipped to deal with.
Joe H
If you make significant backpressure at the faucet it has the same effect as pulling up the shower lift valve on the faucet.
Consider a Y fitting like is sold for garden hoses and installing that at the shower head. It is less pretty but you could mix temp at the faucet, pull up the shower lift valve on the faucet, and then have the Y direct the water to your hose instead of the head.