Don't install an outside tap until you have watched this video, DIY plumbing hot/cold outside taps 

As a maintenance guy it was lovely to see someone thinking about the future when doing a job, ie saving your mum/dad struggling to drain the o/s taps in the autumn. You’re the only other guy I’ve seen who wraps PTFE like I do, so fast and simple 👍

Top quality work, Derek; appreciate the compliance aspect to that job.

Perfect. Exactly what I've been looking for (nice idea for sleeving on a similar job). Plus all you need to know about water regulations for apprentices.

How refreshing to see I’m not the only person who follows the water regs properly. Although I’ve lost count of the amount of outside tap installs that I’ve been undercut on price etc

Morning Tomkat. Nice video to wake us all up

Great video well done Derek👍

Thank you for your valuable time and effort in making this useful video. Cheers

The channel 🎥🎞🎬📺 keeps getting better & better mate 🔧😁👍🏾 Really appreciate how the regulations come in to the works taking place, this is one point that makes you always stand out geeze 😉 Thanks 🧰🔧

Nice video. I have git to do that for my dad in a few weeks. I am doing domestic gas principals this week at collage. All your videos really help me understand what I read in the books. Thanks 👍

Great video Derek 👍

Great video - very informative. The only thing I would add is to use brass screws for outside as they won't corrode.

Great video, just saw your video, I also installed a outside cold water tap last summer with the same pipe. This was before I've seen your video I also put the copper pipe through a white PVC conduit I had as I just did not like the fact the copper pipe having no insulation within the cavity wall. However my PVC pipe was 22mm and the copper being 15mm, I don't know if what I did was wrong but I also put a load of duck tape around the copper pipe to make a tight insulated fit with the PVC conduit. Thankfully the pipe I bought of eBay came with a isolation value and a non return built into it. Did not know at the time but now that I've seen your video happy that the product complies with regs.

Excellent advice 👌

Thanks Derek great video 👍

Really useful video this is just what I'm about to install and this video was immensely helpful! 👍

Best tap video mate on RU-vid

Great video thanks for making and posting 👍

Great video thanks for the upload 👍

Excellent video

I've got a similar job to do at home I'm thinking of just putting in a thermostatic shower mixer head with a dcv on each feed rather than 2 separate taps. The other complication on mine is gardens at the back and kitchens on the front so I've going to come down from upstairs bathroom on the back and use some 12v solenoid isolators on a key switch outside by the tap.

Great video

Brilliant job

Top man with compliance Derek, you never see water board inspectors any more checking up on dodgy installs. Saw an install recently where the householder had a permanently connected hosepipe terminating in a sceptic tank without even a single check valve on the cold mains water pipework😱😱

Great job, and the hots for the dog I did wonder, Not many people have hot outside as well cheers.

I replaced my old screw style tap with a Peglar pb50 lever type. A bit pricey but good for anyone with arthritic hands. Call me sad but the joy of using a lever type with 1/4 turn on or off vs regular screw type is next level.

quality job top bloke

Nice to see good old copper piping :) being used, not the push fit plastic we see a lot of these days.

Spot on

Nice to see you've had a haircut and a shave before going your mum's Derek , I do that too!

Thomas Bradwell Thanks Derek

Absolutely brilliant professional work what areas do you cover

I fit the taps onto the back plate tighten up and then mark the holes in the wall for fixing . This ensures it's tight but still vertical . Also the hot piping inside the cupboard you could have gone above the cold and around instead of crossing over . Would have been neater . Just my 2 penneth

Do not install those self cutting valves. I've just been to one that came off. Anyway, these uploads are invaluable for professionals, trainees and d.i.y ers. Thanks and all the best.

So if you need to run hot and cold feeds underground to your garage, what pipe would you suggest, and what would you insulate it with? Great tuition btw 👌

This video helped a lot! What size solder would you recommend?

great job mate , ya mam will be proud , hope she got the jammy dodgers out for ya

do you have to sleeve all copper pipes that run threw solid brick walls or is it just on an external wall?

How can I mix the water temp outside? Is a mixer tap outside not allowed by water regs? Or maybe you can install a mixing valve inside.

Hi mate. Recently had hot and colds installed by a plumber. No idea why I'm watching this vid but glad I did. I have no sleeve (just copper through the cavity), no backplate, (the pipes just come out the wall and wobble about), and no double check or isolation on the hot. I assume my install is wrong 😂?

Wouldn't the brass tap become hot to touch once running?. Also would the seals/washers not expand and perish due to the hot water?

Could you use hot in a power washer if heated from combi. Don’t worry about the haters Derek your videos are great and we’re a great help to me and others getting through our ACS.

The tap will bottom put on the backplate if you don’t use half a roll of perfect tape on the threads so 5 wraps and tighten the tap before you complete the plumbing inside in case you have to rotate the backplate a few degrees to get the tap plumb!

nice idea but two taps look like they are missing a sink could you use a shower mixer taps hidden in a cupboard so you could control the temperature and have a single tap outside?

Brilliant video. Great pace and really instructional. Some others skip over key points. Thanks for posting this. All of the video uses copper. As a DIY'er I stay away from soldering and use speedfit pipe. Would this be ok on the inside of the house when connected to copper insert? Thanks

I have had a hot water tap connection to the outside for the past 20 years to my property, never really understood the mindset for many living in cold climates not to have such a facility.

One tip for you, when you drilled , drill from the inside with a thinner drill , then you can use bigger drill to drill it from the outside.

Great video, my only gripe is, should you not have put the drain off on the pipe work lower as to drain the full leg like you did the other pipe?

I wonder how many will use plastic sheath or have the valve attached.It is bad enough trying to get into under sink cupboards let alone fitting turn-offs, Thanks for the video though!

Great video! Got the fact a double check valve has to be installed for the cold tap. Got a bit confused by the hot tap… is there any requirement for a single / double check valve in a new build for a outdoor HOT water tap?

The other point I would make is I always hand tighten(without tape) and mark the top of the base plate with the tap upright

👍👍

how do you solder that close to a pipe clip without melting it?

Hi Derek, thanks. Can you tell me why you don't drill from the inside of the house and avoid the guesswork of where you land. Is it just that it is easier i.e. no vupboards etc.

Great video pal! Out of interest, is there any regs that say the taps have to be over a drain (seen on some new build sites they require it) and is there anything related to having a hot outside tap I.e does it not need to have a TMV internally so no one scolds them self? Obviously I’d imagine in most cases a drain isn’t always an option but I have fitted a few TMV’s for tenants with children…curious as I’ve had people have there own theories on what’s best practise etc.. cheers

So if the taps had double check valves in them would you still have to put double check valves on the pipework

🤘😎🤘

Good job I would have put a plastic sleeve through the wall to protect the copper pipe!!

What's your opinion of using the Liquid PTFE liquid instead of the tape? It's blue and I get it from all the normal places we buy our supplies from....... is it just that its a bit more expensive than tape, that hardly anyone uses it? It seams much quicker, easier......your thoughts?

Just bought my first property need an outside tap problem is I have a conservatory. So can’t fit a tap where my sink is 🙈 what do I do?

Tails are always too short on these wall plates. wall cavities grew in size but these didn't. Used to try and buy the bare ones or sweat the tubes off and replace with correct length. Last time I tried it they had started gluing them on!!

Red handle for shut off valve under the sink for the hot water, both blue!

Great video as always. We have always also put a plastic fitting in as an electrical break because of earthing potential, is this not right nowadays ?

Just a quick question. Would you fit a blending valve to the hot so it doesn’t burn anyone?

Hello Derek! I live in a set of flats council owned. There is an out door tap outside one of the flats. Is it free to use for all? Or does that water bill go to that flat? Thank you.

It's about time we stopped worrying about "regulations" in uk. :D Didn't we used to say "An Englishman's home is his castle" ?

Would you not just use a thermostatic mixing valve and a single tap .. ?

Why don’t you fit taps to the backplate before fitting the pipe work?

My daughter's 1930's solid walled house had a garden tap installed some years ago. Recently, she had external insulation with resin render added that meant extending the service pipe to the tap, I am not aware that any check valve was installed due to this alteration. The extended (60mm) service pipe was not robust enough to take even the normal operating twisting motion of the tap and the connection leaked. Fortunately, the leak was spotted in time as it was within the EPS insulation and within the guarantee period resulting in the tap extension and section of wall cladding being removed and then replaced with also new resin render. The tap is not as secure as I would have expected but it is still not leaking - my daughter will be selling the property in the near future so that when the service pipe fails again, which I expect, it will be someone else's expensive repair. I am not aware of any proprietary extension system to account for the wall cladding and fixing to the wall cladding is simply not a good idea. Also, I don't believe that any account has been taken in respect of cold bridging and it would not surprise me to see condensation dripping from the internal copper pipework. PS Why would you put a hot tap externally???

Thanks Derrick do you have any videos on doing your portfolio for acs? Could you do one going over it? Thanks

Is it not possible to drain the outside water just using the tap outside instead of fitting a drain valve? I'm not a plumber btw but just wondering.

A double check valve in outside taps are totally redundant as they never last a winter with frost destroying them, just buy them without and put a separate check valve inside.

Thank you for telling people that not only gas pipes must be sleeved. Am I allowed to install a mixer outside. If the 2 pipes are 15cm apart, then a shower valve will fit perfectly, you just need an adaptor male to male to screw in the female. So I could wash a dog without either freeze or burn him/her. In America they sell garden taps that when you close it outside it actually shuts the water off inside the property. It is called antifrost

I don't think my outside tap was installed with a double valve or a tap to turn it off in the winter and now it has stopped working and the inside of the tap is hidden by kitchen cabinets. :(

Never heard of installing a hot tap outside. What would you use that for?

You forget to fit a basin under the hot and cold external taps. 😳

Nice vlog, I do hope you only charged mates rates. 😂👍🇬🇧

Tried tena pants 😂😂 they give me good back flow protection and fresh smelling boxers all day 😅😅😅

Top draw

Hi, the main reason I watched the video to see how you do a measuring for drilling the from outside to inside,but shame you did not give any tip and advice for that. I've installed many outside tap, but I always have issues with measurements, I'd rather drill from the outside to inside, but sometimes I got no choice I've do do opposite which will end up breaking a piece of brick on B the outside wall which I hate and isn't ideal!! Any tips and advice based on that problam I'm having? Thanks

I always unsweat the copper out of those back plates

Hello and welcome, it gives me great pleasure to sit on bath taps Quote by Steven fry

That job is so perfect it's a £200+ job, but nobody wants to pay that.

He really said 10 - 14 wraps lol

Marcin Masalski

Could you not use plumbers mate?

Why. Put a hot tap outside?

You could have bought longer back plate tails and not used fitting s in the wall

You putting a bath outside

A lot of work for a simple job far to much guff

A bit long winded & the over use of finger pointing 👉 . Shame your soldered joints weren't clean & appears you missed using a heat mat under the sink with the scorch marks clearly visible. Instead of fitting 2 OST you can fit a mixing valve, so in the winter & if you have a dog you can have warm water to wash its paws ! The use of a bender might of helped ! If you drilled through the wall straight through the back of the unit with a 10mm pilot you could of then drilled a nice hole spot on centre & then finished it off afterwards with a plastic pipe cover rosette. Maybe brush up on the soldering techniques & use less flux as that way you don't get solder runs all over the pipes & fittings !! I tend to use the peglars 1/4 turn lever OST only a tenner , easier to use especially for the less able who can't grip a standard tap. I finish off by using stainless screws for longevity . Overall a reasonable & functional video. Maybe save all the technical to the end as otherwise people turn off before the video has chance to start. Customers only need to know you've installed it with proper compliance so they have peace of mind.

Not impressed by the pipe routing in the cupboard!

Helpful and unformative,

I don't know why but it sounds like your been sarcastic all the way through the video

Weren't you going to quit youtube a few months ago, or was that just a clickbait video 🤔

Would have been cheaper buy the taps rather than kits as that is all you used