Outside Tap Installation in Great Barford
With the generous riverside gardens of Great Barford's older homes, an outside tap earns its keep right through 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.
Every tap your plumber fits outdoors gets a double-check valve, keeping any backflow well away from your drinking water. 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.
An outside tap saves dragging hoses through the house, handy for the larger plots near the water meadows. Most Great Barford 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. 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.
A hard frost will split an unprotected outside tap, so the supply is always set up so it can be isolated and drained before 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.
Whether it's watering the garden or filling a water butt, a well-placed outdoor tap quickly proves its worth. For larger Great Barford gardens around Cardington or Roxton, 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.
