Aquor House Hydrant V2+ Frost-Free Outdoor Garden Faucet with Quick Connect and Anti-Siphon, 8 inch, Slate Gray Polymer

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.

We finally fitted this before winter and it works really well it's so easy to connect and easy to use, it took a bit of time drilling holes in wall, but once connected looks great

This is a fantastic product for a nice clean look. It does come with everything needed to set it up but i would recommend an experienced plumber to install it as it does have to go through the wall and will require an additional cutout for the extra vent below. Like any custom product, it does require you to use their proprietary click lock hose attachment, but it comes with the main one that you will require. So far, it has weathered the winter nicely.

Extremely well made brilliant product

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.