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[Closed] Hosepipe tap connector for large diameter tap

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Fed up of washing my bike from a bucket and would like to upgrade to a hosepipe. My tap is a mixer which is a similar shape to this:

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Which means this type

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doesn't fit, and is just over 1 1/8" in diameter, meaning I can't find any of this type

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big enough.

I tried hacking a bit of rubber together to do a similar thing but it leaks everywhere. Anyone know of anything which might do the job?


 
Posted : 12/01/2015 3:35 pm
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get one of those tap kits?

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I ended up with water spraying over the kitchen once too often using those rubber thing with a clamp type connectors.


 
Posted : 12/01/2015 3:39 pm
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Unfortunately I don't own my house, otherwise I would have drilled a hole and installed a tap outside long ago.


 
Posted : 12/01/2015 3:43 pm
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just fit the tap under the sink rather than drilling holes in walls?


 
Posted : 12/01/2015 3:44 pm
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Don't use on them kits, the self tapping thing you clamp on to the pipes are a bit crap. Get one of the below and pipe it in using speedfit fittings, you'll get better flow this way as well.

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Posted : 12/01/2015 3:45 pm
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wwaswas, good idea... I'll have a read.

Matt - I have no idea what that is, looks like an unstable candlestick - have you got a name I can google? EDIT: Just found it, so that would be the outside tap bit. I suppose I could properly plumb in a tap under the sink. Don't know whether my landlord would be very impressed with this though.


 
Posted : 12/01/2015 3:45 pm