Patent ID: 8020575

Claim:
A method for tapping a water line, the water line being buried below a subterranean frost line, the water line traversing a water meter box's lower end, and having first and second sections within the water meter box respectively extending upwardly to and extending downwardly from a water meter, the method for tapping the water line comprising steps of: (a) providing a flexible tube having an intake end and an output end, the flexible tube having a length sufficient for, upon attachment of the flexible tube's intake end to the water line within the water meter box, extensions and retractions of the flexible tube between first and second positions, the flexible tube's output end residing below the subterranean frost line while in the first position and the flexible tube's output end extending upwardly from the water meter box while in the second position; (b) attaching the flexible tube's intake end to the water line within the water meter box; (c) providing a spigot and attaching the spigot to the flexible tube's output end; (d) providing mounting means for releasably holding the spigot within the water meter box, and, upon said releasable holding; (e) performing further steps of grasping the spigot, releasing the spigot from the mounting means, raising the spigot and the flexible tube's output end to the second position, opening the spigot for emission of water, closing the spigot, and lowering the spigot and the flexible tube's output end to the first position.