Outside taps

[PinkDaydreams]

Hello!
I have outside hot and cold taps. I am wondering if there is a way of connecting a hose pipe to both at the same time using an adaptor? I can’t seem to find any when I’ve googled. Those shower heads from years ago keep popping up, the ones you push onto both hot and cold tap. That’s the type of thing I want but not a shower!
Thanks all!

have you got a hot water cylinder? What coloiur?

Why have you got a hot tap outoors?

Do you live in a country where outdoor temperatures sometimes reach freezing?

This might be against the water regulations unless non return valves are fitted.

You can make up one of those old shower things using different garden hose attachments there is a Y shaped one I think

Thank you for your help! Apart from asking what colour my boiler is it’s white by the way.
I’ve managed to find y shaped hose thing like you’ve said @KatyMac, thank you! If that doesn’t work then I’ll just swap the hose onto the hot tap part way through filling the pool.
Thanks all!

The reason I asked about the colour of your hot water cilinder (if any) is that connecting a hot-tap pipe to the cold water supply from the mains will cause high-pressure water to flow into your hot cylinder. If yours is a white cylinder, this will probably cause the pressure-release valve to open, and hot water will gush out and probably go down the drain. With most other colours, it would cause the loft tank to overflow, but might cause it to collapse if it gets hot enough.

Glad I was able to help.

Piglet John is always right!

@PinkDaydreams I too have hot and cold outside taps. I couldn’t find a way of getting both taps in to one hose unfortunately so just have an extra hose instead. The only y ones I could find for garden taps went the other way ie ability to fit 2 hoses on one tap. Have you found something better? I would love to be able to have warm water in one hose! (Though the old fashioned shower thing may work for that as would be for rinsing off dc mainly.)

@PigletJohn I don’t really understand what you’re saying about why it should be a problem? Mine are on the other side of the wall from the utility sink so just built on to that pipe work, therefore all perfectly functional I think. I know quite a few people with hot outside taps - it’s great for filling the paddling pool in the summer!

it's attaching a mixer that causes the trouble. I'd suggest you use separate hoses.

@stylinit

the point is that one of the taps (depending on how lots of factors, not least how far you open the tap) will be lower pressure than the other, if the resistance on the hosepipe is high and the pressure difference big enough, you could send hot water into your cold storage tank, or indeed cold water back into your boiler or hot water cylinder, and although I'm not an expert like @pigletjohn, doesn't sound like a good idea.

Incidentally I have hot and cold taps on the outside of my house (connected to the main combi), hilariously we only realised one was a hot tap after using it to fill a swimming pool on the day we moved in.

Oh fab thank you. Will stick with my 2 hoses then!