Outside tap

[sbillis]

I was wondering if anyone has an outside tap fitted to their boat. I have opften felt would be a useful addition for washing down etc. Any pitfalls to fitting one ?

 

Simon Billis

nb Bulrush

[John Orentas]

I would have thought the one thing that you already have plenty of outside the boat is water.

 

John Squeers.

[sbillis]

My boat is moored under trees and washing it down takes a long time with lifting buckets of canal water up on a rope. I thought an outside tap and a hose would be useful to wash my boat with, after all it's what some people do at the water points

 

Simon

nb Bulrush

[Richard Bustens]

Hi

I have put one in the engine room but did not think of putting one outside.

[Glennbrown]

Hi

 

You do not need a outside tap for cold water.Thats what the canals for!.

 

Instead install a outside tap for hot water.

 

If you want cold water via hosepipe instead of lifting buckets

out the canal install a submersable pump hung on a chain from under you

mooring. Great pressure via 1 inch hose

(machine mart)

 

Glenn

Edited November 28, 2004 by Glennbrown

[DHutch]

If you want cold water via hosepipe instead of lifting buckets

out the canal install a submersable pump hung on a chain from under you

mooring. Great pressure via 1 inch hose

 

yeah, we used to have a old bilge pump that we used to use for that

 

- but thats got lost, so now i just dip the mop into the canal and use that

 

 

daniel

[onionbargee]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

[onionbargee]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

[bottle]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

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Thats a very good idea you could also have a

[Guest st170dw]

I was wondering if anyone has an outside tap fitted to their boat. I have opften felt would be a useful addition for washing down etc. Any pitfalls to fitting one ?

 

Simon Billis

nb Bulrush

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A brilliant idea but.......

 

Might it not freeze very easily in cold weather. You try it because if it works for a year I will follow!

 

Dave

[bottle]

A brilliant idea but.......

 

Might it not freeze very easily in cold weather. You try it because if it works for a year I will follow!

 

Dave

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You can buy little jackets for a tap. They sell in DIY stores.

[NB Willawaw]

Potable water is far too valuable for washing boats with.

We spend so much time filling our water tank in the course of a week, it really made us conscious of how much water we wasted when we lived ashore.

 

We just use a mop in the cut or wash using a bucket of hot and car wash stuff and then rinse with cut-water.

 

Best Regards

 

Mark

 

NB Willawaw

Sutton Bridge, Culham, R.Thames

[DHutch]

Potable water is far too valuable for washing boats with.

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Just use a mop in the cut [snip] and rinse with cut-water.

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Ditto (see my post above)

 

 

Daniel

[ChrisPy]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

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and you could post it twice

[sbillis]

Ditto (see my post above)

Daniel

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My boat is moored under trees and during the winter and spring time gets covered with sticky goo. I have to use buckets of water lifted from the canal. This is quite hazardous whilst standing on a wet roof. It seems quite sensible to use a short hose from an outside tap.

 

Simon

nb Bulrush

[NB Willawaw]

Fair enough. I think Daniels' and our use is slightly different to your requirements.

Different strokes for different folks !

 

 

 

My boat is moored under trees and during the winter and spring time gets covered with sticky goo. I have to use buckets of water lifted from the canal. This is quite hazardous whilst standing on a wet roof. It seems quite sensible to use a short hose from an outside tap.

 

Simon

nb Bulrush

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[Richard Bustens]

You can buy little jackets for a tap. They sell in DIY stores.

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Can you get scarfs and little booties as well, if so what is the choice of colours?

[bottle]

Can you get scarfs and little booties as well, if so what is the choice of colours?

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Only jackets and any colour you like as long as it's green.

[maffi mushkila]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

 

 

Whose Sherry? And what does the vicar want with her?

[maffi mushkila]

OUTSIDE TAP ! .........Sweet baby Jesus !

 

why dont you tow a butty filled with topsoil, and put a lawn , shed , and patio on it ? .......... Must go , the vicars coming round for sherry.

 

 

This is true, last August I was down at the Dundas Aqueduct, some of you may remember I mentioned helping a young lady through a swing bridge.

 

Well there was a boat moored on the opposite side of the A/duct to the SCC with a turf roof. No kidding the whole roof was covered in trimmed lawn!