The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Nope, didn't work

Ah, you've probably got the wrong size of connector, or wrong type of tap, or something ...

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Like the fitting on the tap in the top pic here?
https://www.hozelock.com/product-category/watering/fittings-and-connectors-watering/tap-connectors/
Although it might be a different colour, the shape ought to be the same.

If so, that's a standard size, used by Hozelock and many other brands.
All you'd need is a hose with a Hozelock type fitting to clip onto it. That fleabay kit should fit.

Ah, one of my PC problems. Many sites don't load

This site can’t provide a secure connection

https://www.hozelock.com uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Even MSE is annoying me tonight - every time I click to reply it loads the box .... then after 4-5 seconds it does a refresh and shows the box again... it's really lagging.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, one of my PC problems. Many sites don't load

How about Amazon?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-33-3mm-Outdoor-Threaded-Connector/dp/B000TAQZX2

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, you've probably got the wrong size of connector, or wrong type of tap, or something ...

Being Oop Norf, it's probably the wrong type of wall to which the tap is fixed :rotfl:

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

How about Amazon?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-33-3mm-Outdoor-Threaded-Connector/dp/B000TAQZX2

I don't know... I don't think it looks like that... but maybe that picture is just part of it... it's outside and I'm in here. Need to get that and this together, but that's dripping with water

I'll go and look

EDIT: It might look like that, but it's immediately adjoined to a wider banana coloured piece that has the word Hoselock on it and an arrow pointing towards the hose... then there's a grey disc and then another connector that looks like the yellow one, but is grey, then the hosey bit.

As the boy on the old advert said: "I'm not helping much am I...."

As I see it, without double checking, so far we've had:

It'll be 1/2"
3/4" is standard
Here's a link to a 1" one on Amazon, is that like it.

So I'm increasingly confused all round - and indecisive.

I HATE buying anything because modern life's too complex for me.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Being Oop Norf, it's probably the wrong type of wall to which the tap is fixed :rotfl:

He's lucky to have a wall ... most people up there just have a cardboard box in the road to live in (Monty Python).

LydiaJ

If it's Hozelock, it should be easy. Every Hozelock thing I've ever come across has been compatible with every other Hozelock (or Hozelock clone) thing.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

If it's Hozelock, it should be easy. Every Hozelock thing I've ever come across has been compatible with every other Hozelock (or Hozelock clone) thing.

I think we've gone off at a tangent.

Mine's Hoselock, which I mentioned "just because". But, as it's got holes in it etc, it's best to either "replace everything" and just use the nifty reel holder ... or bin the reel holder and buy something entirely new/stand alone.

Hoselock's pricey stuff. The bits, to replace, are a bit daft in price.

So, all I want is "a cheap solution" .... not specifically Hoselock bits ... and that ebay kit probably never said "Hoselock compatible", but all I really need is "something/everything that will screw onto the outside tap on my wall". Couldn't care less about Hoselock specifically ... I just want "a whole/easy kit" that's within my very limited capabilities to put together.

Those "magic" ones look ideal.... but very pricey, they'd come with a tap connector I'd imagine (not that I know of course).

I only said Hoselock in the first instance as I was looking to see if the connector had its size written on it, so remarked that it didn't and that it just said Hoselock.

IYSWIM.

PasturesNew

I think I'll stick with my Plan A: Buy a fat roll of gaffer tape and gaffer the heck out of the first section, then any parts of the second section that are spraying.

That just leaves the wall spraying - and I think I can minimise that with a bit of "fiddling" around with the connector (how you're supposed to actually screw it on) ... and some tightly bound old rags. Just like dad used to

That should come to under £2 and I can understand the process and how/why the solution should work.

I just thought ... it should be easy to just "buy what's needed, cheaply/easily", but it's not.... it's all become specialist and fraught with dangers.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, one of my PC problems. Many sites don't load

I found a cheap PC that I thought might suit you, just the other day, but I thought you've probably got a lot on your mind already with the house move.