Outside Tap Installation in Sandy
Sandy earned its living for centuries from market gardens, and plenty of its homes still have the big productive gardens to match. 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.
An outside tap on the free-draining Greensand soil here makes summer watering far easier across the town's larger plots. We tee off your internal cold supply, drill through the wall, and fit 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.
We fit every outside tap with double-check backflow protection so the drinking supply stays safe. Most Sandy properties suit an outside tap on the kitchen wall or garage side. For bigger gardens, we can run the pipe further to a tap on a boundary wall or outbuilding. We always fit 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.
Frost still catches out exposed taps through a Bedfordshire winter, so we fit an indoor isolation valve so the run can be drained down. 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. We always fit 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 Sandy gardens around Fallowfield or Girtford, 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.
