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How to Fix Cracked Caulking

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2.7M views · 77K reactions | Genial! Sacado de una sola pieza y armado sin tornillos ni clavos, solo con ensambles. Soporte para macetas aprovechando un retazo de madera sobrante que tenia en el taller. ¿Te gustó la idea? Si es asi no olvides darle like y sigueme para mas proyectos, consejos, tips y trucos de carpinteria. Alfredo Vega / Carpinteria / DIY / Decobarriles #idea #fantastica #ensambles #madera #carpinteria | Decobarriles

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8M views · 108K reactions | Have a leaky hose faucet? Don't let wasted water rain on your parade! ☔💧Fix the drip with these tips from Richard Trethewey. | By This Old House | A typical garden faucet right here and I bet you 75 or 80% of them in this country when you turn them on they leak like this okay you don't think people realize that the fix is relatively simple so it's not a leak that's coming down at the it's somewhere in the bottom leaky from the bottom so I'm just going to tighten this up and just show you what I mean okay and what are you tightening I'm tighten up the bonnet let me just turn this off again I'll show you in a cut away bonnets so in a typical outdoor faucet like this you can see this full water supply right here and there's a washer that sits against the seat and now when you turn knob, there's a stem that rises. See how it's coming up and it lifts that washer off the seat. Opens it up. Now, the top part, I'm going to pull this right up. The top part is a thing called a bonnet. Oh, so that's keeping the stem into the fixture. So, this is this bonnet that holds the stem in and has a bonnet packing. Yeah. And over time, you know, what happens is as this thing goes up and down a bunch of times, this starts to get worn and loose. You hold that. So, many times you can just tighten up, tighten up this top knot which thereby compresses that bonnet again to have it stop leaking out from here. Right. But sometimes that's not enough. It's just so worn. So you called it a bonnet. What was the the black? Bonnet packing. Bonnet packing. Okay. So. It's not enough. What do you they have kits like this that you can buy at a home center that's got a little bit of everything and then if you can find the right one you can do this and just pull this apart You see it has a little nut right here. Loosen the nut. Take the handle off. Alright, take the bonnet packing, bonnet nut off, remove the bonnet packing if it's worn and then a new one goes on top of it. Now, that's the simple way, right? But if you really want to make your own, don't overlook regular Teflon tape. You knew I was going to do something like that. Right, because Teflon tape, you take what you need, take enough. Now, take it and twist it. So, make your own. Making your own bonnet. Your own packing. Packing. Okay and now, you'd really do the same thing. Just dance around like this enough time to build that. Right. And it's amazing. The 75 percent of the the valves on the outside of houses that really could use this. Okay. Okay. And then just compress it. So, you're replacing that with this. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. So, an indication that it's the bonnet is that it only leaks when this handle is pulled all the way up. Okay. And you just tighten it up and put the new gasket in but you often will see a leak when the thing is off like a like that. So right now, this is all the way down but it's not holding back. That's right. Water pressure. Which suggest that it's the washer that is at the base of the stem. So, you can see it right here in the cutaway. There's the bonnet. Here's the stem. Here's that washer and it must mean that that washer needs replacement or the seat at the bottom is scored. Right. So, for doing that, you turn the water off, loosen the bonnet, and back this out. So, now the stem comes out completely. It comes out completely and now you can see this a Philip's head screw. Now, this screw has been in there for a long time. So, it's really important that when you get the right-sized screwdriver and then you get right on top of it and get it really solid with solid pressure and then you back it off because it can snap off otherwise. There. Okay. Cuz it's a brass screw. It's been sitting in water it's whole life. Soft screw welded in place. Yeah. In the mineral. Okay and if it breaks off, you can drill and tap it but you don't want to get into that if you can help it. So now that comes out and there's our washer. Can I see that? Okay. You might see a score mark on the bottom of the washer. It could be gone too. Alright. So we want to want to take this washer. Right. Off of this brass screw. There's a kit. Try try this one. What does that look like? Find its replacement. That one goes out. This one comes in. Yeah. Let me see if I can get this. Is there a top or bottom? Yes. Well, this you can see sometimes this print on one side so you don't want to do that. It's there's a smooth side. You want the smooth side to be presenting itself to the seat at the bottom. So now we go back in. That's a perfect fit. Yeah. Okay. Again, be careful on the way in and then that up and there's the new washer but that may not be enough. It could be one more thing. Alright, you want to hold that? Sure. So, this comes, this washer sets down against the bottom. There's a seat at the very bottom and that's milled in at the factory and that can wear out over time. So, they actually make a tool called a receding tool. You can see this grinding teeth right here. It allows you to come down inside the valve and grind that piece of brass down at the very bottom to get a new surface. So, you want something that's flat and you want some fresh metal. So, the washer can go right against it. Wow. Nice. Alright. Who knew? Thank you. Should be.

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