Garden tap costing hundreds any suggestions on how to water plants?

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I have just been quoted £1000 for an outside tap at the front of my house.
I have a tap in the back garden but it’s not possible to take it round the back due to the long alleyway.

The plumber said I would have to have a pipe going from my downstairs toilet to the front and it would be a days work.

I don’t want to pay a grand just so I can water my plants.

I did take the hose through the house but it just leaked everywhere and made it very messy.

Any suggestions please?

I use a watering can but I am always going back and forth multiple times.

Screw fix…. £20 for a DIY one.

Not sure if it’s regional but where I am I can have a hot and cold one fitted for about £100!!! Get a few more quotes

Rainwater butt in the front garden?

Water butt? Not much good right now but it will be.

So the tap costs 20 or less?, what about the extra pipe work and the labour

Do you have a gutter downpipe on the front or side of your house? Get a waterbutt, there are slim ones available. You'd still have to use the watering can but less walking backwards and forwards. If it gets empty, you could use the house to fill it and just use it like a water tank to save the backwards and forwardsing

Where Is this downstairs loo, if it's at the side, could you put the tap there, and reach the front garden, we need a diagram

Or a waterbutt as PPs have said

The toilet is at the back next to the kitchen.
I was expecting a couple of hundred quit not a grand.

I will look into buying a water butt.

£1000?!

Are they piping the water in from a stream on Everest? 😂

Can't you run the hose down the alleyway?

I'm assuming you have no water at the front of the house?

I mean our extra tap cost about £50 total, but it was a case that we had water the other side of the wall as it were.
When we had an extension at the back of the house, the cost of putting water into it was much more because they had to lay pipes from the bathroom, under our bedroom floor to reach the new kitchen.

Use a watering can

Bigger watering can? We have a 10 litre one which waters 2-3 pretty big containers at a time.

Or yes, a water butt.

We fitted a water butt last month. 240 litres and it filled with one night of heavy rain. I emptied it last weekend, then it rained enough to fill it two thirds.
I love it. Free water and better for the plants.

We have all the plumbing at the front, so wanted a tap in the back garden. My plumber took a feed from the cold water supply to the bath upstairs, ran copper piping through my kids bedroom along the skirting board with it boxed in, through to the outside and then down the wall outside. It's well lagged and boxed in outside and has an isolation valve in the bedroom just before it goes through the wall so we can drain it down for very cold weather. Front and back outside taps cost me £250

I fill my water butt with the hose pipe every couple of months. It’s on a stand so you can use a hosepipe.

Yes getting a waterbutt seems to be the best plan as your toilet isn't in a suitable place for ease of fitting a tap

Get another quote. I had one fitted for a couple of hundred

We managed to get a water butt in the front garden. We have two plastic buckets in the house so in the summer when the weather is warm we capture cold water:

1. we capture the cold water at the start when running a shower (unless it’s so hot we want cold showers!) that usually yields about a bucket (or so) of water a day

2.we capture waste water from the kitchen for example if I’m rinsing vegetables or salad, I will do it over a washing up bowl and then empty that into the bucket in the kitchen. The amount this yields varies as we can’t obviously capture soapy water. But again if we are trying to run hot water then we might end up drawing off some cold first - all that can be captured.

We empty the buckets into the water butt and then the water is available when needed.

Can’t you get a hose extension?

1000 quid what bollox. Get more quotes. Mine cost £200.

I'd get more quotes just to make sure no one else can do a better price.

Otherwise get a better and longer hose. The hose shouldn't leak. If you get a decent hose, attached properly to your back garden tap then you should be able to run it around or through your house without any leaks or problems.

I have an expandable hose that I run from the back garden tap through the hallway out to the front, they are £40 from Screwfix (Hozelock brand).

To add to the hozelock expandable hose option, you can buy adaptors to fit various types of internal taps. Fyi the one called 'kitchen tap adaptor' doesn't fit all kitchen taps, so check what you've got first.

www.hozelock.com/product-category/watering/fittings-and-connectors/tap-connectors/indoor-connectors/