I just want to learn more about helping a neighbor put a new faucet to replace a broken leaky set of faucets.
She bought the two faucet, one of which appears to be a duck, the other a hummingbird, because she says that there was no shutoff valve on the original leaking faucet (which appears to me to be broken off somehow).
When I removed the old leaky faucet, I saw what appears to be "copper" threads, but I would have expected steel or brass, not copper - which is why I had bought a set of brass hose adapters.
The odd thing was that shutting off the cold water didn't turn off the water supply (I don't get it but it's OK that I got a bit wet). But worse, the brass adapter I bought was a male to female, where the duck and hummingbird she bought were both males and the pipe out of the wall is male.
My main question, since I hope to fix it for her tomorrow, is just whether you'd buy a female-to-female brass or copper fitting?