Outdoor plumbing takes the worst of Texas weather, and nothing proves it like a hard freeze. Every cold snap, hose bibs across DFW split when the water trapped inside them freezes — and the cruel part is that the damage often hides until spring, when you turn the spigot on and water pours into the wall cavity behind it. We replace burst and leaking hose bibs, including frost-proof models that shut the water off deep inside the warm wall, and we can add insulated covers and shut-offs so the next freeze passes without a repair bill.
Code requires a vacuum breaker on hose connections, and for good reason: without one, a garden hose left in a pool, a puddle, or a sprayer full of weed killer can siphon backward into your drinking water. Frost-proof bibs have them built in; older spigots can be retrofitted in minutes. It's one of the cheapest pieces of protection in plumbing, and we check for it on every outdoor visit.
Beyond the spigots, we repair the lines themselves: yard line leaks that show up as a soggy patch, a spinning water meter, or a mysteriously green stripe of grass; and the supply valves that serve outdoor-adjacent fixtures — washing machine boxes and ice maker lines — whose small rubber-sealed valves quietly seize or drip with age. Every repair gets one flat number at the house, approved before we dig or cut anything.