With the red valve handles, and two pipes I was expecting hot and cold until I saw the inside photo, given it's all branched off a single 15mm, why the two pipes outside?
On Monday 29 July 2013 11:58 fred wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Oh yes...
That would be the ideal. This is partly laziness. when the roof was off, I dropped some formed copper pipes over the wall tops - this uses one pair.
There is another pair around the front in a location that would be handy for filling a bucket to wash the car. I will probably use those when I do more proper internal plumbing.
The water computer thing will feed its output via pipe dropped into the gutter, so that was not too important. The hose will be (by the end of today) on a reel adjacent to the tap - so this worked out pretty well.
On Monday 29 July 2013 12:05 Andy Burns wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Yes - indeed that is the intention.
Right now, I only have a cold pipe up there. The hot goes in when I add a shower to the bathroom and then I'll redo the inside connection properly.
For now, I deemed it better to be able to flush cold through the hot pipe rather than blank it and leave an air lock and soldering flux stuck inside :)
I have to say that is true overkill. I'm sure one pipe would have been sufficient, especially as I can only see one isolating tap inside the house. Perhaps we're missing something?
All buried 18" below surface by my (late) trencher :) - where they pop up I've not insulated them. I find that the pipe survives frost but the eco back flow valve thingy in the tap itself jams tight and needs knocking out when they freeze!
I don't think they are *eco*. More to prevent stagnant water being sucked back and polluting the system. Keep the hose end above trough water level and it should be OK.
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