Size of French freshwater hose tap fitting

[jbweston]

Please can anyone tell me whether the freshwater taps in French harbours have the same size screw hose fittings as UK ones?

I want to make sure I can fill up my water tank there without having to visit a monger de fer or B et Q!

Julian

 

[Skyva_2]

Yes they do - at least mine did in Cherbourg!

 

[jbweston]

Wow - that was quick - many thanks.

Julian

 

[Gunfleet]

<<monger de fer >> quincaillerie, my fave French word.

 

[Robin]

Most do fit but it is best to carry a selection of adapters anyway and we have Hozelock adapters which are cheap enough in Homebase. Also worth carrying is a short (3 or 4ft) length of hose with a connector fitted for the few French marinas that have the tap fitted into a recess in the pontoon rather than fitted in a stand box or even the electrics supply box, this saves unwinding the whole hose for a bucket of freshwater.

 

[snowleopard]

I was amazed when I discovered that their fittings were 3/4" BSP. I bet they don't call them that though!

 

[jimbaerselman]

British fittings tend to work over most of the continent, but there's no reliable unique standard. For more flexibility, carry a range of sizes, including a few jubilee clips and some short lengths of different internal diameter flexible pipe.

For ultimate flexibility, one of those lengths will be made up of bicycle inner tube, with a back up roll of duct tape to stop it balooning up too much . . .

 

[Boathook]

Most screwed pipe fittings in France are called some different but they seem to correspond with BSP. Sometimes in the DIY stores they have a 'brass' plate with the various threads along with the imperial and metric size.

 

[Danny_Labrador]

Whilst there are lots of metric threads for engineering purposes they (Europeans) never got round to a pipe thread.

They all adopted British BSP and in my experience - France and Germany they call it just that - BSP!

 

[TrueBlue]

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Whilst there are lots of metric threads for engineering purposes they (Europeans) never got round to a pipe thread.

They all adopted British BSP and in my experience - France and Germany they call it just that - BSP!

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Several people (well more than one) have told me that BSP is in fact a metric thread. Goggling "BSP threads" show dimensions in inches that don't readily translate to mm. So can someone enlighten me??

 

[Marsupial]

As far as I know (British Standard Pipe) BSP threads are named according to the internal diameter of the iron pipe they were made for. So the thread on the outside of a 1/2" internal diameter iron pipe is 1/2" bsp. It may one day be usefull to know that most 15mm compression fittings for copper tube have 1/2 bsp threads, but 22mm do not have 3/4!

 

[jbweston]

Thanks for the useful information.

As so often happens, the discussion has gone beyond the useful into the interesting!