Aquor House Hydrant V2+ Frost Free Outdoor Faucet, Anti Siphon Valve with Quick Connect, Frost Proof Flush Wall Hose Bib, 8 inch Stem, 9-1/2 inch Install Depth, Slate Gray

I have had this Aquor Wall Hydrant V2+ installed for about a month now and it has been fantastic. First, once the hose is connected there is no leak/drip at the hydrant. In the pictures you can see how the slow drip from where the hose connected to the old bibb started to create a drip stain on the siding (which needs to be painted, but that is not because of the Aquor). Second, because this faces the street, the improved appearance of the stainless cover makes a huge difference. It is one of those small things that will make you smile every time you see it. Something that I will need to do in the future, probably when I re-paint the siding, is add a block or one of Aquor's stainless blocks so that when the hose is disconnected from the drain it avoids getting any drips on the siding. Some things to consider to decide if the Aquor is right for you: 1. The flow is entirely controlled by connecting one of the Aquor connectors and it is either on full blast or not connected. For me this is no problem, I can easily regulate the flow at the other end of the hose with a nozzle and to be able to shut off water to the hose without disconnecting it I plan to buy Aquor's 45 degree connecter with a 1/4 turn valve. 2. Installation is pretty easy if you are decently comfortable handling a drill. Any connectors that you may need can easily be purchased from any hardware store (e.g. push-to-connect fittings and pex pipe). You really don't require any special tools beyond a 1 1/2 inch hole saw and maybe a jab saw. Then depending on what you're connecting to you may need something to cut the supply pipe. The rest can be done with push connect fittings and a wrench. 3. To retrofit it (like I did) you will need access to the hose supply pipe. For me installation was easy, the wall where the supply line is in the garage is very easy to access so I only needed to use the included drill template sticker and a hole saw to enlarge the hose bibb penetration (very clear instructions on how to do this are included). Then just cut the supply pipe, used a 90 degree elbow, some pex and 1 more threaded connector to connect to the Wall Hydrant V2+ and I was done. In total it only took me about 45 minutes to install after a 5 minute trip to the big orange store. TLDR; looks great, works great, easy to install if you have any DIY ability whatsoever.

Saw the Aquor House Hydrant come to my design feed somehow on Houzz, or YouTube & researched it before purchasing. It’s interesting the design came from college students @ U of Wash! I love the Aquor’s sleek, low profile, unobtrusive look for a hose bib, and water performance. It’ll look great from my back patio deck, vs the old, ugly spigot. This is a great product and worth the install and product cost. The HH product is extremely sturdy, with a heavy, solid metal pipe & they give you stainless steel screws. It’s rated to last 20-30 yrs, per Matt Risinger of the Build Show’s video on the Aquor site. There’s a lot of marketing paperwork inside, along w a free straight connector. You should definitely buy the angled hose connector w the shut off ability, as the straight connector doesn’t have a shut off and shoots/streams quite a distance more than the angled hose. Made w a composite plastic (Delrin acetal rsin polymer), it’s crush proof to 200+ lbs (if run over by a car’s wheels). It’s mid Nov & freezing in MA @ night, and I love that the HH is frost free, and one less thing to winterize, but I’ll probably still turn off the water line in the fall. Purchased both 10” and 12”, but installed the 10”. The instructions should be clearer that if you’re in a cold climate, to choose the longer pipe so it’s further away from the cold outside wall & well inside the house. I have 2x6 construction, and an open basement, not closed up. Had a handyman install the mounting block with metal flashing on top & Aquor HH. I was lucky to find a terrific handyman/plumber from the Aquor website, under Installers, who did 25+ installs. Took 1.5 hrs, but the handyman also did some extra work to prevent an overly extended PEX from kinking & being pulled too far out by a plumber in the future. I looked at 3 different mounting block choices and the cedar siding will be replaced with James Hardie fiber cement siding, I went w/ a ¾” thick PVC mounting block; as didn’t want the flimsy vinyl, uninsulated one from the big box, orange store. I didn’t change the HH cover color yet, waiting for siding to be replaced before deciding between stainless, black or white. We will have white trim & windows, black doors, pale green siding. The extra right hole in the pictures was a plugged up hot water spigot, at one point, and won't be seen after the new siding's up. I spoke with 2 plumbers who didn’t think the HH was worth it, & didn’t like a separate hose connector that could be lost. I like the design, it adds to the house’s aesthetics & they are old school. The box comes with a straight hose connector, and they’ll give you another if you write an honest Amazon review. The other thing was I tried to find a solution from the Aquor engineers by contacting their Chat line. I wanted their help in figuring out how to tie the Aquor system with a 6 zone sprinkler system that requires a backflow preventer (Watts), and where the sprinkler water lines have to be blown out with compressed air every fall, thru a front of house spigot, on an exterior front wall. The whole system is super ugly in the front of my porch, and was too complicated for Aquor to figure out. Maybe they will have a solution in the future. However, they ghosted me, never emailed me back, nor did the Chat line person after I emailed her twice. They should’ve simply said they don’t have a solution right now.

While we had some walls open for some renovation work I decided to also replace an older leaky brass hose bib while I had easy access to the pipe. After looking around a bit I came across the Aquor Wall Hydrant and was very excited to give it a go! This product is awesome in many ways.... 1) The hose bib on the front of the house is right next to the front door so having a MUCH more aesthetically pleasing faucet, one that is virtually invisible, was a very worth upgrade over an old brass faucet. 2) We live in Colorado so having to put a cover over the hose bib every winter just looks like crap on the front of the house and is annoying to have to take off and on when wanting to use a hose. Not having to winterize the hose bib every year will be a joy. 3) Being of a higher build quality I'm looking forward to not having to ever fix or replace the unit (hopefully). At least for a very very long time. Much longer then a standard brass hose bib. Installation was relatively easy. Even though we were doing a retrofit we did decide to go with the V2 versus the V1 in order to have the vacuum breaker built in. Since the facade of the house was brick we did have to do some chiselling out of the hole in order to get the unit to fit but it really wasn't too big of a deal. Because of needing to chisel the brick out more we did run into the screw holes on the unit being mighty close to the opening and being in brick it was risky to try and use anchors (too close to opening and risked making the hole too big and not being able to screw in at all). Since we were just doing screws right into the brick and the brick being a little crumbly we did find that once fastened that the unit wasn't as secure and tight as I would have liked it. After our initial install I did see that they sell plates (stainless steel or wood) that you can use as backers either for brick or stucco. I would strongly encourage using the backer if attaching it to brick or stucco. We went with the stainless steel backer plate and it both looks great and allowed us to use anchors and move the screw holes a little further away from the main hole opening for the unit. Overall a very worthy investment.

A great product! I have a leaky outdoor faucet for years and have been meaning to replace it. So I was in the market for a new one. I looked around, starting at home depot (my go to place for everything DIY), and watched some howto videos on Youtube and that's how I discovered this product. I took some time to learn about it and how to install it, etc. Read the reviews on here like everyone else. In the end, I decided to purchase this instead of the typical outdoor faucet and got it installed. Some quick highlights. Great quality so it's huge upgrade from what I have previously had (probably more than 20+ years old). Installation is simple (I ran into an issue and will explain down below so it can help you if you decide on buying it). It works well and as expected (some tips on how to use it down below). Installation tips. Use the installation guide and draw the area that needs to be drilled. Make sure to align it properly. Use the proper size bit (I didn't have the correct size and took longer than what I would have like) - don't make my mistake. Predrill the holes for the screws Use Sharkbite coupling - very easy to use and work nicely with this product. It supports copper and other pipe types. I used PEX and highly recommended. ** Don't use ** check valve coupling with this, just use regular coupling one. I ran into this problem and took a long time for me to figure out - the problem with it is because the hydrant valve would "lock" as I have been told by Aquor customer support/service (who was very helpful and was able to help me quickly - took less than 5 minutes for that call). Useful tips. You may want to buy other Aquor related products such as another type of nozzle. when using the nozzle, you do need to give it a push and turn (may be easy for men but not for women or kids or elderly).

This is my second Aquor hydrant that I have installed in my house. Hands down best looking spigot/hydrant you can install especially when combined with the stainless steel lids (40 dollar extra). However there are things you need to understand before purchasing. First I have used 2 separate professional plumbers to help with each install. One was installed over a year ago and one installed this week. I was installing to replace existing frost free spigot that had starting leaking. In both installs the plumbers had never installed one before and I had to walk them through the install (I had watched the YouTube videos so explain was easy) I had even called the office and let them know what the plumber was installing so they could have the proper tools on the truck. There is a list of things to tell the plumber on the website. In both cases I had to cut holes in the sheet rock due to the builder not leaving any access pex tube in the walls. The plumbers had to cut small 6X6 square holes in both cases. Easy wall fixes if you have experience in this or you can do what I did the second instal and just put in a 6x6 access panel and the hole is fixed in about 5 minutes. I bought the panel on Amazon and cost 10 dollars. New construction this is a no brainer have these installed, Existing construction, just beware that if doing yourself you will need some tools and about 3 hours from start to finish and you will also need to know how to connect pex tubing if newer construction or a mix of hard pipe and pex if an older home. Plumbers are expensive and cost me 2 hours of labor on both installs at 300 dollars both times. Average price to buy and install with plumbers is about 500 dollars with the stainless steel covers per unit. Would I recommend them, yes I would 100% recommend them they are functional, long lasting and beautiful. Original install has been working flawlessly for 2 years. I have received many compliments on them. I used 6 inch units in both cases and we live in western Washington where we get freezing weather for multiple months. One last note if going into an interior wall the 6 was fine but this last init was on an exterior wall and would have been an easier install with a 12 inch unit. If you have a frost free unit you can turn of the water (whole house cut off) and then remove the handle and stem to see how long of a unit is there. Hope this helps someone.

We replaced a spigot in our garage that was leaking into our crawl space. I knew I wanted to upgrade to this. We DIYed the install. We didn't expect water to come out after disconnecting the adapter. Since the spigot is against drywall, the water spills on the drywall directly. Admittedly, the drywall was getting a bit wet with our old spigot, but now we're really going to have to waterproof the drywall. I guess it needed it anyway. Not sure if I would have purchased this for the garage if I'd known about the water that comes out. It's just part of how they work. Otherwise, I really like the spigot. It looks nice and functions well. I like that I can disconnect the adapter from the wall and the water stays in the hose with pressure so I can use the rest of the water.

My god. Night and day difference! Excellent quality and operation of my new garden hose water outlet Aquor Hydrant V2. I had to buy a threaded 1/2” brass Pex A Barb (Expansion Pex) fitting to screw into the inlet to connect to the house supply (Note: will vary depending on your existing plumbing). Additionally I bought a “Mounting Block” from a third party seller to fit in and with my vinyl siding. It would be handy if I had a “vinyl siding removal tool”, but I managed everything with a flat head screw driver without damaging anything. The frost prevention operation was flawless and it can’t be any easier than this. No more shutting a valve off inside the home, by design it’s all automatic as soon as you untwist the hose connector from the hydrant V2. The price currently of this product is competitive in my opinion for the exterior garden hose/spigot market and worth the investment. It’s sleek clean appearance is unlike any other product. You will likely need a third party threaded garden hose valve which is sold separately from this product so that you have control of water flow after connecting the exterior hose connector so you can control your output with or without a full sized garden hose connected (assuming you do not have a sprayer head nozzle attached or manual valve operated sprinkler at the other end that would otherwise prevent water flow until switched open). If you’re in the market for a new valve, the reviews did not lead me astray, this is the product you’re looking for. Measure your space of inlet before ordering which stem size you need!!! (I ordered the 10” which was better priced and I was able to make it work in my space) It’s very important to get a long enough or perfectly sized length depending on how much room you have to work with when connecting in/through the walls of your home.

I installed 3 of these in my home. High-quality, nice way to upgrade the look of old spickets. Overall very easy to install but there are a few important things to note when installing. First the pipe angles up inside the wall, if you're using PEX it probably won't matter but copper is less forgiving. For one of these I had to install a couple of elbows on the supply line to get the angle right. Second using a hole saw on a retrofit is difficult because there's already a hole there. Using an oscillating cutter or and a forstner bit worked well. Once installed nothing leaked, the flow is fantastic and it looks great. Bonus is that it's anti freeze.