Outside Tap Installation in Alconbury
For an Alconbury home with a garden — and most properties here have one, especially the family-sized plots out on Alconbury Weald — an outside tap is one of those small upgrades that pays for itself fast. No more dragging a hose through the kitchen window, no more buckets to fill the paddling pool, no more soaking the kitchen floor every time the dog needs a wash. It also adds value when it's done properly, with a double-check non-return valve to keep your drinking water safe.
In Alconbury we install outside taps across both halves of the village. The new plots on Alconbury Weald often have generous gardens with no existing tap — a glaring omission for new families. The older Alconbury village cottages and the surrounding rural villages often have a tap fitted decades ago but with no isolation valve and no winter shut-off, so they freeze every cold snap. We replace them with modern brass-bodied units, fit indoor isolation valves so the run can be drained down before winter, and lag the indoor pipework where it crosses unheated voids.
Central Huntingdonshire winters are reliably cold enough to burst an outside tap that hasn't been drained down before December. We always run the supply through an indoor isolation valve so you can shut off and drain the tap before the cold sets in, and lag the indoor pipework. Allotment gardeners, dog owners, and anyone with a campervan all find an outside tap pays for itself within a season.
