Home Improvement Ideas Plumbing Installations & Repairs Our Step-By-Step Guide to Hose Bib Installation Learn how to move your garden hose to a more convenient spot on your home. This home improvement project will make watering plants hassle-free. By Caitlin Sole Caitlin Sole Caitlin Sole is the senior home editor at BHG. She is a writer and editor with nearly a decade of interior design expertise. She has vast experience with digital media, including SEO, photo shoot production, video production, eCommerce content, print collaboration, and custom sales content. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Published on June 22, 2018 Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Kimberly Gavin Project Overview Total Time: 2 hours Skill Level: Advanced Adding a hose bib (sometimes called a "sill cock") in a convenient location can save you from having to stretch a garden hose around the house. However, the most difficult part of installing a hose bib is breaking into a cold water supply pipe and installing a tee fitting. Below, we show you how to quickly complete this project so you can move forward with your weekend. What You'll Need Equipment / Tools Tools for working with pipe Carpenter's square Drill Spade bit Screwdriver Caulk gun Materials Hose bib Silicone caulk Deck screws Pipe and fittings Flux Solder Pipe-thread tape Instructions Better Homes & Gardens Getting Started The type shown has an extended stem, so the freeze-sensitive valve is indoors. We'll show you how to install a shutoff valve so you can turn the water off from the inside and outside. If you live in an area with freezing winters and the hose bib pipe will enter a heated space, buy a long-stem, frost-free hose bib, which shuts the water off inside rather than outside. If you live in a warm climate, simply connect the pipe to a standard hose bib. If the hose bib will attach to a sprinkler system, install a hose bib with an antisiphon device, which prevents water from backing up into the house and possibly contaminating your household water. For frost-free hose bib installation, plan for all the pieces you need to install a hose bib. In this case, a short nipple connects the hose bib to the shutoff valve. The valve connects to the supply line with a sweated copper adapter. The 8 Best Hose Reels for Simplifying Garden Chores Better Homes & Gardens Drill Locator Hole At a point slightly higher than the cold water pipe you will tap into, drill a locator hole with a long, thin bit. Bore through the rim joist, sheathing, and siding. To avoid splintering the siding, drill partway from the indoors out, then finish by drilling from the outside in. Better Homes & Gardens Insert Hose Bib From the outside, slip on the plastic gasket and push the hose bib through the hole. Apply silicone caulk around the hole and attach the hose bib by driving two deck screws that are coated to resist rusting. PHOTO: Better Homes & Gardens PHOTO: Better Homes & Gardens Make Cuts Hold a carpenter's square or straight board alongside the hose bib location and mark the cold water pipe for the site of the tee fitting. Shut off the water. Cut into the pipe and install the fitting.Tips for Galvanized Pipe ConnectionsTo break into a galvanized pipe, cut the supply pipe with a hacksaw or reciprocating saw equipped with a metal-cutting blade and remove pipe back to the nearest joint (diagram above, right). Add sections of threaded pipe to reach the location of the hose bib.Install a union and tee fitting and add a nipple and elbow to reach the level of the hose bib. (Build in a slight incline away from the hose bib.) Drill a locator hole and bore a 1-1/8-inch hole. Add nipples and a union to reach a coupler attached to the hose bib.If the supply line does not already have a stop valve nearby, add one between the union and the coupling. How to Install an Irrigation System Better Homes & Gardens Assemble Pipes Dry-fit a nipple and an elbow to the tee. Dry-fit an adapter, a nipple, and a shutoff. (A dielectric fitting is unnecessary if the bib is chrome-plated brass.) Make sure the hose bib slopes, so it drains when turned off. Place the final nipple in the valve and mark it for cutting. Better Homes & Gardens Final Touches Remove the inner parts of the shutoff valve. Protect the framing with a heat-proof fiber shield and sweat all the joints.