wiggy
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How do I join 1/2 inch flexible cold water hose to feed a standard domestic bathroom sink tap?
Hose to tap connection
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Cliveshep
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Assuming you mean garden hose, use a hoselock fitting to go on the spout of a hose-union bib-cock(outside tap) and screw that onto your tap. If you mean the armoured flexi coupling as illustrated you can get those in B & Q or Homebase, get the one with a swivel fitting at one end (c/w fibre washer) which goes onto the tap and a compression fitting at the other end to fit 15mm copper tube. Favourite is to get the type that incorporates a ball-o-fix isolation valve in the compression end.
jmac
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Assuming you mean garden hose, use a hoselock fitting to go on the spout of a hose-union bib-cock(outside tap) and screw that onto your tap. If you mean the armoured flexi coupling as illustrated you can get those in B & Q or Homebase, get the one with a swivel fitting at one end (c/w fibre washer) which goes onto the tap and a compression fitting at the other end to fit 15mm copper tube. Favourite is to get the type that incorporates a ball-o-fix isolation valve in the compression end.
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Good advice. If I can add a little. I prefer not to use the 'flexi' couplings for 2 reasons. Firstly, the cheap ones are not terribly well made and will not last too long in the marine environment. Secondly, the ones with the isolator narrow the bore considerably. If you are going anywhere with poor water pressure, or where they charge by the minute for water (yes there are some places in the pacific that do this). then you will wait a long time for your tanks to fill. Better to get a full bore (gas type) valve and plumb it properly.
Alternatively, go and get some 'speedfit' fittings from Screwfix. They make fittings for both ends and you can buy a foot of tubing from a local plumber's merchant. Its a little more expensive but it won't chip the gel coat!
HTH
Assuming you mean garden hose, use a hoselock fitting to go on the spout of a hose-union bib-cock(outside tap) and screw that onto your tap. If you mean the armoured flexi coupling as illustrated you can get those in B & Q or Homebase, get the one with a swivel fitting at one end (c/w fibre washer) which goes onto the tap and a compression fitting at the other end to fit 15mm copper tube. Favourite is to get the type that incorporates a ball-o-fix isolation valve in the compression end.
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Good advice. If I can add a little. I prefer not to use the 'flexi' couplings for 2 reasons. Firstly, the cheap ones are not terribly well made and will not last too long in the marine environment. Secondly, the ones with the isolator narrow the bore considerably. If you are going anywhere with poor water pressure, or where they charge by the minute for water (yes there are some places in the pacific that do this). then you will wait a long time for your tanks to fill. Better to get a full bore (gas type) valve and plumb it properly.
Alternatively, go and get some 'speedfit' fittings from Screwfix. They make fittings for both ends and you can buy a foot of tubing from a local plumber's merchant. Its a little more expensive but it won't chip the gel coat!
HTH
wiggy
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sorry for the confusion I want to install a domestic cold water bathroom sink tap in my heads and feed water to it through 1/2 inch flexible water pipe from my water tank via a pump.
James_Calvert
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I think mine just have the hose forced over the fitting underneath the tap, and secured with a jubilee clip. Not particularly elegant, and a bit of a bother to get off again, but very simple.
mechrig
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Hi
Go to a local plumbers merchant or B&Q and get a 15mm/BSP ‘tap tail’ and a short length of 15 mm copper tube.
The tap tail screws onto the threaded portion of the tap. Solder about 3” of copper tube into the tap tail , the plastic hose will slide over the copper pipe, if it’s too tight soften the hose by placing in very hot water or gently heat with a hot air gun.
If you want to be extra secure , get a 15 mm copper olive when you get your tap tail, and solder this about 12 mm from the end of the copper tube , this forms a barb and helps prevent the hose blowing off the copper tube.
Go to a local plumbers merchant or B&Q and get a 15mm/BSP ‘tap tail’ and a short length of 15 mm copper tube.
The tap tail screws onto the threaded portion of the tap. Solder about 3” of copper tube into the tap tail , the plastic hose will slide over the copper pipe, if it’s too tight soften the hose by placing in very hot water or gently heat with a hot air gun.
If you want to be extra secure , get a 15 mm copper olive when you get your tap tail, and solder this about 12 mm from the end of the copper tube , this forms a barb and helps prevent the hose blowing off the copper tube.
wiggy
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Thanks all, I bought a hand tighten to pushfit tap connector and pushed copper into this, the 1/2" pipe pushed nicely onto the copper. Thanks /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif