Swapping out two old hose faucets

A customer in Marlborough had two outdoor faucets that needed replacing — one standard hose faucet and one frost-free. Both had seen better days. Outdoor faucets get ignored until the exact moment you go to hook up a hose, and then the drips, the stuck handles, and the leaks you never noticed all decide to show up at once.

Why frost-free matters in Massachusetts

The frost-free faucet is the one worth calling out, because around here it’s the difference between a faucet that survives a Massachusetts winter and one that freezes and splits. A frost-free faucet has the shutoff deeper in the wall, so the water drains back away from the cold. We replaced both with new, smooth-working faucets so the garden chores and the hoses all run without a fight — and the frost-free one is set up to get through winter without freezing up.

If your outdoor faucets in Marlborough or anywhere in MetroWest are dripping, stuck, or just old, call Richard T. Curley Plumbing & Heating at (978) 562-3736. We’ll swap them out — and if yours aren’t frost-free, we’ll tell you why that matters here.