Don't have a frost free hose bibb, but I do have a bibb for my oatmeal:) (those who follow both our blogs will understand)

Charlie,

Shame on you. Crass self-promotion for your featured blog on my humble little, never read, blog. You show no mercy. No wonder I cannot get any traction at AR with you around.

Just tryin' to help:)  Are you drooling or is that oatmeal?

I point out those frost-free hydrants as a special feature when I find them on property. I like them.

Good idea Barbara. Accentuate the positive.

Steve

The frost free hydrants are great.  In fact, I'm installing two of them today on my property.  You should see ?  I have never seen them that cheap.  In fact, I paid $70 a piece for mine (five feet tall with two of those feet buried.  When installed, the need to be in a bed of pea gravel and have some source of positive support, such as a treated 4X4.

Thanks for the comments all.

Why would they have don't that to begin with if it will freeze easily?

Sean Allen

Sean,

Cheaper. Note that David said he got the frost free hydrant for $70.00 and he considers that cheap. The hose bibb in the photo probably has about $10 worth of parts. And, if they have a shutoff near them, that drains the line, that is how they used to do it. We inspectors see house after house like that.