Hose Bib-Vacuum Breaker. Yuck!

I already know I am going to hear it, but I removed my vacuum breaker from my hose bib after years of disgust. It has always been bad about dumping water down the side of my foundation but I tolerated it. However, last night I turned off the water and left the hose in our above ground swimming pool. This created a vacuum and drew about 3000 gallons out of the pool, out of the vacuum breaker, and a lot of it into my BASEMENT!!! So I took the damned thing off. Now I find that there are fine threads on the end of the sillcock, so a garden hose won't attach. Dirty *^(^%! Are there any adapters available to go from the fine threads to garden hose threads??? Why not replace the vacuum breaker? Obviously the one you have isn't doing the job. I know you have heard it, but they have a purpose, and shouldn't be circumvented. Originally Posted by chandler ;1217357]Why not replace the vacuum breaker? Obviously the one you have isn't doing the job. I know you have heard it, but they have a purpose, and shouldn't be circumvented. My old one worked fine. Actually it worked too well. I was filling my above ground pool yesterday. I shut the water off and left the hose in the pool. When i awoke this morning i discovered the pool level had dropped and that the water had followed the hose back to the house and it dumped out at the back flow preventer, which then ran down my basement wall and into my bathroom. OK, I misunderstood, thinking it leaked back into the plumbing and into the basement. As kindly as I can, please take this in the right light. You can't really blame the back flow preventer, but leaving the hose in the pool for the problem, as the preventer did its job. You definitely don't want that 3000 gallons of water going back into your well, or into the municipal water system. Thus the difference in the threads on the sillcock. I would be fine putting the old vacuum breaker back on but I ruined it, by trying to modify it. So now I can't find a replacement to fit my hose bib. The vacuum breaker has to have fine threads not hose threads. I can't find one in any of the stores so far. If you had a vacuum breaker which was retrofit onto a standard faucet, then you have only removed 1/2 of it. The other half is still screwed on , and is secured in place with a set screw which needs to be removed. There is no adapter to those threads. Same is true if you have an as-built vacuum breaker faucet. They do that intentially so you cannot defeat the vacuum breaker. Unfortunately, the vacuum breaker performed as it was supposed to, and you suffered an unintended consequence. These are the ones that fit on my bib. http://www.arrowheadbrass.com/products/index.html (I realize the thread is more than 7 years old, but...) I'm having a similar issue -- similar in that I can't find a vacuum breaker that will fit on the threads of my hose bib. In my case, the seal inside the vacuum breaker is no good; it wasn't working properly at all, so I unscrewed it and took it to local hardware stores to find a replacement. All of them carried similar breakers, but all of their breakers screwed onto normal hose threads. Mine does not. The hose bib is made by Arrowhead Brass, but they (apparently) no longer carry hose bibs like the ones on my house (with machine threads).

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