Ok, I know you're supposed to leave the faucets open when you winterize, but somehow that didn't happen last Fall. As a result, the screw-in plug at the base of the kitchen faucet was broken out by freezing.
You'd think there was something with that thread that you could buy at Home Depot. I even thought about replacing the whole faucet, but it's a pain to get in there to work on it.
So I engineered my own solution to the problem with a wine cork. It turns out that we needed the one from the Yellowtail Shiraz bottle. Better vintages use real corks which can work for a while, but aren't very durable and continually require the purchase of additional bottles.
Lesser vintages have corks that don't stand up so well to being threaded.
I recognize that this is still an imperfect situation. Anybody have a better suggestion?
Frozen Kitchen Faucet
Threaded Mode
