Outside Tap Installation in Woodford
In a village like Woodford an outside tap quickly proves its worth. Filling watering cans at the kitchen sink, washing the car from a bucket, feeding the paddling pool through a window — it's all a faff, and a garden tap does away with it. Fitting one is a small job with a big payoff.
The work is quick — the plumber taps into your indoor cold supply, drills a tidy hole through the outside wall, and adds a double-check valve to prevent backflow, exactly as the water regulations call for. In and out with no upheaval.
On a typical Woodford property the tap sits on the kitchen wall or the garage side; for a bigger plot the run can carry on to a boundary wall or an outbuilding. An indoor isolation valve is fitted as a matter of course so the supply drains down before the frosts, and any pipe crossing an unheated void gets lagged.
Woodford 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 Grafton Underwood. 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 Woodford gardens around Woodwell or Ringstead, 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.
