The joint on my mother-in-law's garden spigot failed, and caused a flood inside her home. A plumber came around to make a repair. He installed a new frost-free spigot. The new joint looks a bit questionable to me, though. Apparently, the spigot manufacturer offers an inlet configuration which accepts a thread or a sweat joint, so while a sweat joint into a threaded fitting is not necessarily a deal breaker. The staggered collection of unions joining the water pipe to the spigot looked questionable to me, though. I just don't want a repeat of this incident. There is mold damage inside the wall, and a room has to be completely re-carpeted.
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