Are there any hozelock 'taps'?
Basically you connect a hozelock socket, and it turns on.
Are there any hozelock 'taps'?
Basically you connect a hozelock socket, and it turns on.
Can't help you with the question, sorry. Good name though! Regards, Iain Stirling
Have a look at their online product catalogue.
Any good?
Sort-of. Thanks for the link - for some reason I diddn't think to check online.
I was basically looking for a tap, with a hozelock male connector on the output, and the ability to simply remove the hose connector to turn the tap off automatically.
So you don't need to connect the hose, and turn the tap on, but you can adjust it to set flow if you want, then simply plug and unplug the hose without turning it on and off.
Why not connect the tap to a short piece of hose with a waterstop connector on?
Ian Stirl> > Ian Stirl> >
My hose has an automatic stop end with a built-in quarter-turn tap. However, I don't know the make - I bought it in France. Not, of course, that I can use the hose at the moment.
Colin Bignell
Apart from the fact that I'd rather have a 'proper' permenant solution, and that hose, exposed to the elements and pressurised all the time isn't the greatest idea, it'd mean that I'd have to mess around with a male-male adaptor.
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But if it's outdoors /something/ is going to be expose to the weather, and I'd rather it were a bit of hose with some give in it than a bit of rigid plastic. Far less likely to split in the frost.
I have a brass splitter each with its own tap. Male all 3 ways. But I've no idea where it came from. (However I use it so rarely that you could attempt to bribe me for it:-)
Douglas de Lacey
In message , Guy King writes
nah, I had various bits of plastic pipe outside - both the blue MDPE stuff and grey Hep2O - polybutylene? mostly used for internal plumbing.
In about 5 + years including some sub -10C temps I never had any problems - it seems to have enough give in it/be tough enough - though I did have a problem with a copper to tap compression joint opening under the pressure of the ice. And at the time of year this is likely to happen , the water is most likely turned off anyway.
however I have tried having hosepipe left under pressure and I remember at least two occasions where we had leaks - one where the hose split near the end and one where the hose came out of the fitting at the end. Much water went everywhere of course as it was in the summer.
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