It won't be a "hard" freeze, so I would not be concerned. I am not disconnecting any of our annoying hoses. You have some time to figure it out, it is supposed to warm up again next week.The Annoyed Man wrote:Guys, I know nothing about plumbing and pipes. This seems like it should be a simple problem, but I'm stumped.
We have two garden hoses hooked up to spigots in the front and rear of our house. Rather than connect them when needed, the Gardiner in Chief (The Annoyed Woman) leaves the hoses connected to the spigots all the time. So now that we have a freeze warning for tonight, I want to disconnect them and put some anti-freeze spigot covers on, but the metal hose fittings seem to be welded to the spigots and I can't get the hoses off. Using a pair of channel-locks merely threatened to bend the pipes as I tried to twist off the hose fittings. I have suggested to TAW that, going forward, the hoses ought to be left disconnected by default, but that doesn't solve my problem NOW.
Is there some kind of trick to loosening hose fittings from spigots that someone can share with me?
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