Nice to have an outside faucet on the Northeast side of the house but when I used it last, I had water puddling in the garage. I was lucky that the faucet only leaked when it was used and didn’t require an immediate repair. It was time to fix it before the weather changed to cold here and the task became “less fun”.
The house has it’s positives and it’s negatives and sometimes these things intersect. What always strikes me about the construction of this house is that no thought what so ever was put into the ability to maintenance or to add any functionality. All construction method was about getting the immediate task completed with no thought past that. As an example, there is no allowance for more wiring to be run to the 200 amp service even though it has empty breaker bays. I had to add an access panel above the service to access the pathway to the service panel when I added the electric garage heater. Any more new wiring into the panel will require an additional panel in the next wall cavity because of the way they drilled holes in the wall top sill at the roof line instead of allowing a general opening for multiple (and additional) wiring. Not to dwell on mistakes past but access to the leaking faucet was another of my custom built surprises.
Chunk and I got under the house in the crawlspace and crawled over to the wall of the leaking faucet. Long story short, we couldn’t find a water line out of the foundation or lower sill area where the faucet is located. I talked about the good and bad intersecting – the foam sprayed in to insulate and seal the crawlspace makes seeing and working on anything it has covered much more difficult. I enjoy the effects of the insulation but this method of insulation creates that positive/negative trade-off. Anyway, we made our egress and decided it was time to look at the pictures I’d taken during the build to see if there was a picture that could give us a clue as to where this faucet was fed. It definitely was not from the crawlspace under the sub-floor.
Found this picture. These sly dogs had buried the pipe in the wall between the garage and the laundry. It didn’t register with me when taking the pictures. I remember being more concerned with documenting the washing machine plumbing. At least they ran it off the cold side line and I wasn’t using heated water when running the exterior faucet.
Moved the car out of the garage and started shifting the contents to get to the wall.
