Outside Tap

[ROSSinHD]

Hi all

Our house hasn't got an outside tap. Not to much of a problem as we have good fake lawn but watering the few flowers back and front with a can is becoming a pain in the ass.

Looking on the web it seems easy enough to install but I think I have a problem that complicates it. From what I gather the outdoor tap splices into an indoor tap but we have no taps anywhere near an outside wall.

What would be my options for an outside tap to use with a hose.

I have tried the mixer tap connectors and they are crap and fall off.

Thanks

[blaineuk]

Where is your kitchen/utility room sink?

[ROSSinHD]

blaineuk said:

Where is your kitchen/utility room sink?

Kitchen sink is pretty much bang center of the foot print of the house backing onto an internal wall.

Only other tap downstairs is bang in the middle of the wall adjoining the house next door.

[SS2.]

If it's just for flowers and tubs, have you considered a water butt and a suitable pump ?

Like this.

[ROSSinHD]

SS2. said:

If it's just for flowers and tubs, have you considered a water butt and a suitable pump ?

Like this.

I have a water butt but that pump will not go in through the top.

I would like the hose to be able to use a power washer for the patio etc too.

[kambites]

Any cold-water feed will do, it doesn't have to be a tap. Do you have any toilet cisterns, washing machines, dish washers, boilers, etc. on external walls?

[ROSSinHD]

kambites said:

Any cold-water feed will do, it doesn't have to be a tap. Do you have any toilet cisterns, washing machines, dish washers, boilers, etc. on external walls?

Nope nothing on an external wall.

[anonymous-user]

You need this

https://www.tooled-up.com/hozelock-7819-ultra-meta...

[Royce44]

Semi detached?

I run a pipe down the side from the boiler feed to a tap at back of the house.

Just dont leave it live through winter.

[Pheo]

Our last place was terraced so I ran one down the back wall from the loft which had a supply. Isolated it in winter as per the above poster. Worked well.

[magooagain]

Would there be any chance of running it down from upstairs or from the loft?

[elanfan]

Where's your stopcock? It'd be very unusual to have water piped to the centre of a property. More likely you've got pipes behind your kitchen cabinets that disappear into the floor then go to feed your kitchen sink.

[kambites]

Where's the boiler? If it's not on an external wall, how does it vent? Or is your heating electric?

[mcg_]

I was at the pub the other day and an electrician genuinely asked a plumber if he could take a cold water supply for his utility from a radiator on the other side of a wall. Jesus Christ

[Alucidnation]

I bet he could spell though.

[ROSSinHD]

Yeah we are semi detached. Water boiler is upstairs against the adjoining property wall but in the middle of that wall. Stop cock is in the same room.

Decided to get my dads plumber to come have a look and see what can be done.

Thanks all.

[Gingerbread Man]

Dig down to where your water main enters the house. T into it and bring to the surface. Fit an isolation just above ground, and a drain point to drain down come winter. The isolation before the tap will save having to isolate in the street come maintenance as well as winterizing it.

It's an option.

[kambites]

Do you have an internal or external soil stack? If it's internal and on an outside wall, you may be able to run a pipe from the loft down the cavity that runs in, then punch through the outside wall at the correct level for a tap?

Also what type of floors do you have on the ground floor? If they're suspended wooden boards with carpets over them, you might be able to run a pipe from the kitchen to the outside wall under the floor.

[Sheepshanks]

Gingerbread Man said:

Dig down to where your water main enters the house. T into it and bring to the surface. Fit an isolation just above ground, and a drain point to drain down come winter. The isolation before the tap will save having to isolate in the street come maintenance as well as winterizing it.

It's an option.

...added bonus of free water if you have a meter in the house.

[Oakey]

I feel your pain OP. Is your mixer tap a big one? The end unscrews on ours but good luck finding a hose attachment that fits it!

I did eventually get one of those connectors with a hose clamp that works but it's only a matter of time before it fails.