Outside Tap Installation in Clapham
With the gardens of Clapham's homes backing onto fields and woodland, an outside tap earns its keep all summer. An outside tap is one of those things you don't think about until you haven't got one. Washing the car with a bucket, dragging a hose through the kitchen, filling the paddling pool from the bathroom tap — it's a hassle. Getting one fitted is a quick job that makes life easier all year round.
Your plumber fits each outdoor tap with a regulation double-check valve so nothing can siphon back into the mains. Your plumber tees off your internal cold supply, drills through the wall, and fits the tap with a double check valve (backflow prevention — it's a water regulations requirement). It's a tidy job that doesn't disrupt your day.
A garden tap saves running a hose out through the house, useful across Clapham's larger gardens. Most Clapham properties suit an outside tap on the kitchen wall or garage side. For bigger gardens, your plumber can run the pipe further to a tap on a boundary wall or outbuilding. Your plumber always fits an indoor isolation valve so you can shut off and drain the run before winter, plus pipe lagging where it crosses any unheated voids inside the property.
Because a freeze can burst an unprotected tap, your plumber always sets it up so it can be shut off and drained for winter. Bedfordshire winters aren't the harshest in the country, but cold snaps still catch out outside taps that haven't been properly drained down. Water sitting in the spout can freeze, expand, and split the brass body or the copper pipe behind the wall — usually first noticed when the next thaw produces a leak inside the kitchen wall. Your plumber always fits an isolation valve on the indoor side of the run so you can shut off and drain the supply before December, plus pipe lagging on the indoor run where it crosses unheated voids.
For larger Clapham gardens around Mowsbury or Oakley, your plumber can run the supply further down the side of the property to put the tap closer to where it's actually needed — near a vegetable patch, greenhouse, or boundary wall. Your plumber can also fit a hose union connector on the spout so a garden hose clips on without an adaptor, and double-tap blocks for properties that want one tap for the hose and a separate one for filling watering cans.
