Leaving garden hose connected in winter

[Dark Horse]

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Went into the basement, opened the access panel and wallaaa, pipe cracked after the valve and only leaked when the spigot was open. On top of that the numbskull who installed it soldered it to a plain end piece of copper butted to the threads of the FF hose bib.....I was amazed.

Turn off water, cut that **** out, solder in a new piece of copper with a threaded fitting and installed the new bib, back in business.

Just an FYI. Several styles of frost free sillcocks are manufactured so that they can be soldered or use a thread adapter. the copper pipe slides in the same as any other sweat fitting.