How To Loosen An Outside Water Faucet? Identify The Ways

You were watering the plants and opening the tap for washing you’re when you are done. But the tap is not opening. It must get jammed or frozen due to winters. Although it’s the peak summer and you feel strange about why it is happening. 

Do you feel tough opening your water faucet? Or do you ever think that the tap got stuck? Yes, it happens when you have tightened the water faucet so hard that it’s tough to open.

You will also see strange particles that are stuck inside your faucet. It is not always the dirt. And it can be the minerals that flow with the water and are left behind on your tap. These minerals can be why you jammed your faucet and are facing proper to open it.

Would you need to change the whole faucet? You can discover this question till the end of the post. Although, we would need to loosen the faucet to explore the problem. How to reduce an outside water faucet?

The plumbing of the faucet is not that critical task and does not require too much money to fix it. Would the loosing of the water faucet cause leakage? Most of you must have this question in your mind.

• Although it is not true cause we are losing the water faucet for cleaning purposes. Before jumping on the procedure, we would discuss the causes of jamming the water faucet.
• Reasons why outside water faucets are jammed: the first reason is the freezing point of climate in your areas as we are talking about the outdoor faucet. 
• Although the minerals assembled and taken care of can be the reason for the jamming, or maybe you are not closing the tap properly. Thus, the water particles stuck on it. Whatever the reason, you can fix this issue with minimum effort.
• Instruments required: the crescent wrench, the pilers, new nuts, CLR spray, and penetrating oil.
• Procedure: try to follow the step-by-step guide to get the most effective result.
• The first thing you will need is to turn off all the water supplies present in your home. This step can prevent all kinds of water leakage during the treatment. 
• Thus, keep in mind that you are not replacing the pipes or the faucet. So, you will not need to disconnect any line. You are doing this treatment for only disinfection in your tube.
• Now, you will see the nuts are tightened, and there is no leakage. 
• You will take the wrench and lose the nuts. You will need to take off nay nuts, let them at their place but slightly lose them for a few inches; 8-15 inches.
• Now take the CLR spray, available at every departmental store, or you can order online.
• Spray at the loosened faucet nuts and stay a few inches away so it will not irritate you.

• The CLR spray is for the cleaning of stains and can not be used with any other bleach or disinfection. You can not set the spray for more than two minutes as it can affect the faucet or maybe its colour. 
• It is a quite active sanitizing spray with solid composition and removes the calcium and magnesium particles from the faucet.

• You are not done with just sanitizing the faucet after losing the nuts. 
• Take the crescent wrench and hold the pipe of the valve for a few minutes.
• If you feel that the wrench is slipping, you can take the torque wrench as its surface is closed.
• You can put the torque wrench inside the pipe and gently hold it.
• You are not supposed to push hard or start hammering because you don’t want it to break.
• Now it’s almost loose, and you can thoroughly clean it with some wet clothes.
• You can use a disinfected for cleaning the inside of the faucet.
• Now you can use the penetrating oil on the faucet.
• It will complete the procedure by thoroughly cleaning the faucet. 

• The penetrating oil unclogged the jammed particles of the faucet and brought the lubrication to the faucet. You can just put a few drops of oil whenever the faucet gets stuck. You can see the great turning of the tap after using the penetrating oil. 

• The outside water faucet most of the time lives in the algae and dirt because of the air pollutants. However, lubrication treatment can help put the stuck particles of land out of the faucet. You can open the tap without putting too much force. 

How would to protect the outside water faucet in winters?

The winters in some areas cause too many freezing points that the items outside the house get jammed. However, you can still save your water faucet by covering it with a plastic roof. This coverage will not let the taps get jammed and will remain movable.

Can we change the whole faucet set?

Although it is not that tough to change the whole faucet set, if it is working fine but got stuck due to minerals, then there is no need to change it. You can use lubricant and clean as per the procedure.

Does the spray like CLR affect the body of faucets?

The faucets are steel, and the spray for disinfection can be only them as no ordinary detergent can. Although using them daily or putting them on for a long time can damage the faucet. You can see the taps’ texture change once you start using them regularly.