On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:09:08 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:43:13 AM UTC-5, wrote:
They're called "FREEZE PROOF" faucets. Yet, I've never found one that
dont freeze.

"Freeze proof" means that freezing won't destroy the faucet, not that it won't ever freeze up.

You put something wet in really cold temperatures, and it's going to freeze. That's physics.

But that's the point. The water is supposed to stay where it's not
really cold.

Maybe you havent' seen what he's referring to. They're about a foot
long and the valve on the outside looks like any other garden faucet,
but the stem is almost a foot long and the valve seat is 10 or 11
inches inside the house, in his case a heated basement probably.



The difference is that a "freeze proof" faucet doesn't put a pipe full of water out in the cold where it will freeze, expand, burst, and flood your basement.

Exactly. The water is not supposed to freeze.