Outside Tap Installation in St Ives
For a St Ives home with a garden — especially the family-sized plots out on Wheatfields or the bigger gardens of the surrounding Hemingfords and Houghton properties — an outside tap is one of those small upgrades that pays for itself fast. No more dragging a hose through the kitchen window, no more buckets to fill the paddling pool, no more soaking the kitchen floor every time the dog needs a wash. It also adds value when it's done properly, with a double-check non-return valve to keep your drinking water safe.
In St Ives we install outside taps across every style of property. The newer homes on Wheatfields often have generous gardens with no existing tap — a glaring omission for new families. The post-war semis around Westwood and Hill Rise often have a tap fitted decades ago but with no isolation valve and no winter shut-off, so they freeze every cold snap. The riverside homes and the smaller terraces around the Old Riverport often need a creative pipe run because their gardens are tucked away or accessed via a side passage. We can handle any of it.
Cambridgeshire winters are reliably cold enough to burst an outside tap that hasn't been drained down before the cold sets in — and homes near the Great Ouse get a little extra damp that doesn't help. We run the supply through an isolation valve on the indoor side and lag the indoor pipework so you can shut off and drain the tap before December. Allotment gardeners, dog owners, and anyone with a campervan all find an outside tap pays for itself within a season.
