Review on 🚰 EZ-FLO 20199: Brass Hose Bibb with Anti-Siphon Vacuum Breaker - Unbeatable Quality and Performance by Justin Woolley

Well, that's what the code requires in many places. The product works great and looks great. The price is okay. There are no complaints at all. If you need it, this is the best option. But what is it? Spring. when your garden hose is in a polluted pool of water and a strange coincidence happens and the water pressure in your house goes negative. Well, you could end up sucking dirty water into your house or even the city's drinking water. Does it ever happen? No idea. But to prevent that, you screw one of these onto the outside faucet, tighten it, then the set screw breaks off and you can't remove it. Is always. Thus, the municipal water supply (and your domestic water supply) is safe. Do you know what can happen most often? Your free garden hose decides to weld itself to this thing. Aluminum and brass can bond and fuse to create an unbreakable seal given enough time and heat. Since this thing isn't coming out of your faucet, you're basically stuck. When this happens, your instinct (okay, MY instinct anyway) was to put a giant pipe wrench on the hose and give it a vigorous twist. Who turned on the faucet and broke the pipe, and I immediately had a flood on my hands. I had to turn off the water in the whole house and find a plumber to come out at 6pm. What a mess. Hundreds of dollars later I found out about my plumbing disaster. I've ordered another one like this. I'm going to install it and I have to break this pin so it can't be removed. But maybe I can forget to loosen that set screw. Just in case I ever need to remove it.