Outside Tap Installation in Corby
Out in the Corby villages especially, 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.
Fitting one is quick work — your plumber tees off your internal cold supply, drills through the external wall, and adds a double check valve for backflow prevention, which is a water regulations requirement. A tidy job that doesn't disrupt your day.
On most Corby houses the outside tap goes on the kitchen wall or the garage side. For bigger gardens, we can run the pipe further to a tap on a boundary wall or outbuilding. An indoor isolation valve is always fitted so you can shut off and drain the run before winter, plus pipe lagging where it crosses any unheated voids inside the property.
Corby sits high on the Northamptonshire uplands, so a hard frost bites here and catches out outside taps left undrained — especially on the exposed new plots at Priors Hall Park. 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 Corby gardens around Little Stanion or Danesholme, we 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. We 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.
