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#1 ·
Hi All

Anybody got any recommendations for frost resistant outside taps, the ones I've looked at on Amazon, the inner workings appear that they would restrict the water flow as link below.

Suggestions appreciated.

Cheers Bruce

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calido-GARDEN-HANDLE-HAZELOCK-COMPATYBILE/dp/B07B3FVVQT/ref=pd_aw_sbs_86_19?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07B3FVVQT&pd_rd_r=05f249f2-a0a2-4031-9ce1-a0203f638813&pd_rd_w=gDlE6&pd_rd_wg=uwIzG&pf_rd_p=15216146-4434-47f5-99d9-56240c85bf4d&pf_rd_r=X4CYA86QF2X8RCDDN0JH&psc=1&refRID=X4CYA86QF2X8RCDDN0JH
 
#33 ·
I have a brass tap, live in the west of Scotland and it hasn't frozen yet. That includes the 2010 winter when it was -14

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It sounds as though your tap will survive any winter ! I live at the other end of the country and I'm still using a brass tap that was fitted when the house was built in 1937. Back then it was probably high tech but t day I think I'd go down the 1/4 turn plastic route.
Derek.
 
#20 ·
I replaced my standard external tap with one of these:

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/outside-taps/0486192/

Easy to turn On and Off, the valve bore is 12mm so there is no flow restriction within the tap itself. The plastic bit in the end of the hose adapter easily pops out, although in my case I changed the hose adapter to a Geka fitting.

Full dimensions are given in the datasheet.

John
 
#22 ·
I replaced my standard external tap with one of these:

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/outside-taps/0486192/

Easy to turn On and Off, the valve bore is 12mm so there is no flow restriction within the tap itself. The plastic bit in the end of the hose adapter easily pops out, although in my case I changed the hose adapter to a Geka fitting.
Just ordered a couple of these so thanks, looks a bit easier to use than the usual tap style as you say.

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#30 ·
I learned my lesson reference taps, I now have two isolation taps to my outside tap, in winter it gets a polystyrene "mask" over it, but I always turn the water off from inside, as I'm on a water meter and came home one day to find some builders had fixed a hose to the tap and were using my water for a house two doors down.:censored::censored:
 
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