Want to run hose pipe off a tap, current mixer tap not good.

tomstickland

I've currently got a kitchen sink tap like this


I want to run a hose pipe off it.

The cheapest option I've found is £12 each for these


Does anyone sell an adapter to fit onto the first type of tap? Or should I fit the second sort?

Thing is, the current tap is a bit annoying anyway; I'd rather the taps were more out of the way.

I live in a leashold flat, so driling a hole through the wall and soldering in an outside tap would probably be a bit naughty.

ManAtHome

You could always fit the outside tap inside then stick the hose through the window (don't most of them have a self-cut fixing these days?).

tomstickland

Outside tap inside? It'd not be an outside tape then though. It'd have to be an auxillary inside tap. Ha ha ha, what a little pedant I am.

Yes, I have thought along similar lines to your idea. It wouldn't look too good is the only problem I have with it.

Hmmm, how about I fit a self retracting hose pipe drum into the cupboard under the sink and then feed the pipe out through a hole in the wall? That'd be seriously hard core.

Or fit the drum thing and just feed hose pipe up to window, so that way I don't have an exterior modifications to the building and I have somewhere to store the pipe.

All random ideas. I think different taps would be simplest.

I'mcomingbackasaman

Have you tried one of those fittings on the taps you have where you put your tap in the middle of the fitting and then you twist it till its held in a kind of vice? They sell 'em in B & Q and ironmongers shops. If you draw a diagram of your tap and ask the (nice) shop assistant they might be able to help.

Stuartli

It's very easy to set up an outside tap from the feed to your main kitchen water supply, usually situated on the outside wall.

Ensure the tap is fitted with a suitable screw on hose pipe connector and Bob's your Uncle.

ManAtHome

Apologies if you've already hired/borrowed the jack-hammer, but Hozelock may have something - see the Multi-tap connector about half-way down http://www.easywatering.co.uk/acatalog/Hozelock_Hose_Fittings.html (think B&Q stock this sort of stuff, dunno about the prices though).

ps cross-posted, sounds similar to I'mcomingbackasaman's (wow - double-apostrophy) suggestion..

tomstickland

Re the outside tap, I know how to fit one. The problem is with it being a leasehold flat and me now owning the outside of the building. Seeing how lax the management co are though, I could just do it.

I'm probably just going to change the taps in the short term and then build a rainwater butt and jetwash in my garage.