Outside Tap Installation in Cambourne
For a Cambourne home with a garden — especially the family-sized plots out on Upper Cambourne and Cambourne West — 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 Cambourne, outside taps are installed across every style of property. The new plots in Cambourne West and Upper Cambourne often have generous gardens with no existing tap — a glaring omission for new families. The older Great Cambourne and Lower Cambourne homes often have a tap fitted by the developer but with no isolation valve and no winter shut-off, so they freeze every cold snap. Out in the surrounding villages of Bourn, Elsworth, and Caxton the gardens tend to be larger and the existing taps are often decades old — your plumber replaces them with modern brass-bodied taps and proper backflow prevention.
South Cambridgeshire winters are reliably cold enough to burst an outside tap that hasn't been drained down before the cold sets in. The supply is run through an isolation valve on the indoor side and the indoor pipework lagged so you can shut off and drain the tap before December. Allotment gardeners, dog owners, and anyone with a campervan all find an outside tap pays for itself within a season.
