Outdoor tap on house wall with no drainage

[Zengagoddess]

We have a tap on the outside of the house under the kitchen sink. It’s a holiday beach cottage and we use the tap for foot rinsing , washing wetsuits. We use a large 40l builders bucket to stop the water flooding the yard and then empty the bucket onto a flower bed. The yard is shared so I can’t create a permanent structure. We are very careful but worry about a tap left running by accident. Anyone out there have a solution? It’s in

Can you fix a piece of pipe running towards the drain?

Bit like guttering?

If you fancied ‘posh’ why not a Belfast sink and drain it that way?

You have a drain really near
You must be able to make some kind of plastic chute that would drain the water into the drain over those pipes

Length of clear plastic pipe attatched to end of tap.
Vintage drain hopper attached to house wall, beneath tap.
Clear plastic pipe sits in hopper when tap not in use.
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Then drainpipe, configured as above, to take water from hopper to grid if tap ever left on accidentally.

Or, you could do what we do and just tuck the clear plastic pipe bit into a vintage earthenware ale barrel - but there's only us live here and we don't leave the tap on - usually!

My last piece of drainpipe dropped off the design, but, you get my drift.

Google “outdoor tap lock” a few different options.

Buy some flexible pipe if you need it to be really easy, if not normal pipe will do, fix to the outlet at the wall, move the tap to over the grate. Fit lagging to stop freezing. Ensure there is an isolation valve inside in case of a sharp winter/leak etc?

I'm not sure it looks that complex?

Thanks for all the ideas. I’m going to try and find a Belfast sink and try and prop it up on bricks. I had thought about the barrel (plastic though) so at least I know that a beer barrel will work. I get anxious that someone’s toddler will turn on the tap unnoticed and will damage foundations .

OP, that seems like a ludicrously unlikely issue. Damage to foundations from an outside tap dribbling (of gushing!) wouldn’t happen in a couple weeks - it’d have to be a long-term issue. Just how long is it empty for???

That’s so reassuring- there’s usually someone in the other cottages and family members pop around to check our place, so wouldn’t be a matter of weeks on end . It’s pretty frost free - literally on the beach

I have no drainage under my tap outside. Is this compulsory? We use it to attach a hose

Same here LesLavandes