Attaching Hose Bib Flange To Corrugated Siding

If you want to hang something from your vinyl siding don t even think about drilling through it to attach a hook to the sheathing.

Attaching hose bib flange to corrugated siding.

These are used to attach the bib to the foundation of the home. Beige cream 183 black 16 brown tan 81 gray 34 green 19 red 19 white 70 more ways to filter. Assemble the hose bib to the pipe placing it in the desired finished position. Clean the hose bib.

Clean the dust off the siding caulk around the perimeter of the hole then slide your hose bib in and use two 2 stainless steel screws to hold it on. Align the screw holes on the hose bib s flange with the screw holes on the wall. 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.

Use either long self tapping screws or construction adhesive to attach it to the wall. White polypropylene mini mounting block for siding model 146100001 10 68 10 68. Personally i would not use a latex caulking on fiber cement. Assemble the hose bib and pipe.

Predrill a pilot hole for the screws with an 1 8 masonry bit. Ignite the torch and heat the joint evenly. 1 press the flange of the hose bib up against the foundation. There are at least three alternative ways to do it.

Free delivery with 45 order. Builders edge 390. Clean the inside of the hose bib in the same fashion until shiny. While holding the hose bib in position drive a concrete screw through each of the flange s screw holes and into the screw holes on the wall.

Sometimes i ll use large fender washers to hold them to the wall. But if the hole is too big your screws don t have anything to grab. Add nipples and a union to reach a coupler attached to the hose bib. The old ones also had a bigger flange that covered most of the gap and then was caulked around.

Apply the paste flux to the inside of the hose bib and outside of the copper pipe. Add sections of threaded pipe to reach the location of the hose bib. Drive the screws until they butt against the flange and secure the hose bib to the wall. The hole saw will likely be dull by the time you are done drilling.

Typically the hose bib has a mounting flange with two screw holes. Plumbing hose 12 universal 321 color family. I m replacing a few hose bibbs on an older house with aluminum siding. I like the hose bibs that have the flange and the notches on the sides.

I would either paint it to match the metal or you could stain it to add some contrast before you attach it to the wall. When the siding was installed 20 years ago it was cut around the hose bibb.