Just read in a DIY manual that an outside tap should be installed "at least 250mm above DPC level".
Why? What would be the dire consequences of installing below DPC... apart from not getting a bucket under it if the DPC were six inches above ground level?
On a sloping site with the DPC well above ground level, the tap could be quite high up the wall if you position above DPC.
OTOH, if you have it below DPC, the inner part is going to be below ground.
Much more sensible to run it through the wall at a normal height, then run a length of pipe down the wall and have the tap at any height you like.
Cue the 'frozen pipe' brigade...
Makes no sense. What if you had a cellar below DPC. No tap allowed ? As you say, sloping site, sloping oversite/subfloor, many rows of blue bricks up to DPC in back garden etc, no reason not to have a tap within reach of the ground. As long as it it properly insulated. Simon.
Which manual? Does it explain the rationale? Makes little sense to me!
Reader's Digest. Latest edition. No explanation.
Surely easier to insulate if the pipe is run inside.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:55:02 -0700 (PDT), a particular chimpanzee, sm_jamieson randomly hit the keyboard and produced:
Who says it's not "allowed"? The OP quoted a DIY manual; mine says nothing about a minimum height, so am I "allowed"?
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