Outside Tap Installation in Soham
Behind the tiles in many local bathrooms and kitchens is pipework that has been added to, not renewed, for decades. 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.
Getting surface and waste water away cleanly is a bigger job on this low fen-edge ground than in higher, drier towns. 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.
Whether it's an old cottage near the church or a new-build on the edge, the same hard-water, high-water-table pattern runs under the town. Most Soham 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. 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.
Soham sits on a low fen-edge island between Ely and Newmarket, and the ground drops away to open fen on almost every side of the town. Cambridgeshire 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.
The town runs on hard fen water, so limescale in cylinders, valves and heat exchangers is behind a good share of the jobs here. For larger Soham gardens around Qua Fen or The Shade, 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.
