AquorHouse Hydrant V2+ Frost-Free Outdoor Faucet with Quick-Connect and Anti-Siphon, Frost Proof Hose Bib Flush Wall Faucet for Exterior

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.

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.

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.