Outside Tap Installation in Raunds
An outside tap is one of those things you never miss until you need one and haven't got it. Filling a watering can at the kitchen sink, bucket-washing the car, snaking a hose out the window to the paddling pool — all a nuisance, all solved by a tap on the wall. Fitting one is quick and pays you back all summer.
The job's a short one — the plumber branches off your indoor cold supply, cores a clean hole through the outside wall, and fits a double-check valve against backflow, as the water regs require. Tidy, quick, and no disruption to your day.
On most Raunds houses the tap goes on the kitchen wall or the garage side, though a larger plot can have the run carried on to a boundary wall or outbuilding. An indoor isolation valve is always fitted so the supply can be drained ahead of winter, and any pipe through an unheated void is lagged.
Raunds 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 Marshalls Road. 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 Raunds gardens around Cotton End or Stanwick, 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.
