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[Shop-talk] faucets, mixing valves, and regular valves

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Subject: [Shop-talk] faucets, mixing valves, and regular valves
From: Mark Andy <marka@maracing.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:42:01 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

I'm putting a laundry tub in my garage.  In addition to the regular 
faucet, I'd like to have a separate hose bib so that I can run a short 
section of garden hose w/a nozzle for spraying off stuff, filling up 
buckets on the floor, etc.  I want it to be able to be hot/cold/whatever.

Initially I was thinking I'd replace the 'head' of the faucet with an 
adapter to a T, then back to the faucet, with a hose bib off the side of 
the T.

Looking around at Lowes, it looks like that may be hard to do.  So instead 
I'm wondering if I can just Y off the incoming hot/cold water connections 
and run one set to the faucet and the other set to a pair of 'gate valves' 
(the configuration that looked most useful was called a "garden valve" at 
Lowes), then to a Y, then to a hose bib.

And finally my question... Is a mixing valve like on a regular faucet just 
two valves plumbed to a T or is there more to it than that?  I wasn't sure 
if there was some type of one way valve incorporated as well, so that a 
fully open hot water valve couldn't 'push' hot water into a partially 
opened cold water valve.

Appreciate any pointers!

Mark
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