Cut a piece of timber to this depth and around 75mm wide and fix it to the wall using screws and wall plugs behind the back plate and then screw the back plate to this. You can replace the washer on the outside tap, but sometimes it’s so much easier and less of a headache to just replace the tap. Expansion and contraction can cause the water pipe to rub across the masonry and over time weaken it to the point is bursts. With the new T-joint in place for the pipe branch you can then work out exactly where to drill the hole through the wall to run the pipe through.

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If it freezes and expands inside a pipe it can very easily cause it to burst which can be a nightmare in terms of leaks and also having to repair it.As with all things in the building industry there are a huge range of products that exist to help make given jobs even easier and this is no different.

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The height doesn’t really matter, whatever works for you but I like to be able to at least fit a bucket underneath. When the brass backplate is sitting against the wall, sit the tap straight and mark the 3 screw holes on the outside wall with a marker.

If the leak is coming from the packing gland nut below the handle then this can be tightened up with an adjustable spanner to fix a dripping tap. Replacing an outside that has already been fitted is very easy and I would definitely recommend a DIYer to give it a go. If there is an isolation valve before the pipe you are hoping to cut to take your feed from, turn it off here, if not you’ll have to turn it off at your mains stopcock. There are no outside tap kits that use everything I like to use, but if you can make it work then go for it.

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The first thing to do inside is cut the copper pipe from the new outside tap down to the correct length. If you haven’t done much plumbing before, cutting water pipes to fit an outside tap may seem rather daunting, however, by following the guide below it’s a job that anyone can do, read on. Plastic doesn’t tend to do too well in extremes of temperature and will degrade quickly so copper is best. The tap outlet is suitable for standard garden hose pipe, or it can be replaced with a quick connect hozelock type fitting (available separately).Once you have drilled the 10mm hole and checked it’s in the correct place, you need to drill through the 10mm hole with the 18mm SDS drill bit. During the colder months of the year, the chance of the temperature dropping to the point of freezing is quite high and as you probably know, when water freezes it expands.