I've just installed an old laundry tub free standing in my brewing room (spare room in the main house). It's temp installation as it's a rental so I've just run a drain outside through a floor level window and the tap is fed of an outdoor door tap. I've got garden hose running in through the window and it's clamped onto 1/2" copper pipe (two hose clamps to be safe) from the back of the tap. The whole thing is leak free and I've left it for a few hours with the garden tap on and it seem ok but I'm getting the heebie jeebies about it now. There's only about 1/2 metre of actual hose inside the house but I'm wondering about the risk of it bursting. If it did inside it would be a bit of catastrophe, the floor is lino in that room but the adjoining room are all carpeted.
I've had a few old garden hoses burst before, this one is brand new and never exposed to sunlight. But I want to leave the outside tap on permanently and I've never left a garden hose under mains pressure full time before. So the question is, can it handle it? Has anyone tried something similar and could tell me how it went?
Next job is to run some hot water. Not quite sure how to do that on the cheap. Pretty sure garden hose is a bad idea. I often attach short lengths to indoor hot taps for cleaning etc and the hose gets really pliable with a bit of heat, I'm sure it's leaching unspeakable things into the water as well.
I've had a few old garden hoses burst before, this one is brand new and never exposed to sunlight. But I want to leave the outside tap on permanently and I've never left a garden hose under mains pressure full time before. So the question is, can it handle it? Has anyone tried something similar and could tell me how it went?
Next job is to run some hot water. Not quite sure how to do that on the cheap. Pretty sure garden hose is a bad idea. I often attach short lengths to indoor hot taps for cleaning etc and the hose gets really pliable with a bit of heat, I'm sure it's leaching unspeakable things into the water as well.