Garden tap fittings query

[HydraulicsContracting]

In Australia, nothing is allowed to be touched in water supply plumbing, unless its being done by a licensed plumber or a registered plumber under the instruction of a licensed plumber. DIY's shouldn't be playing or attempting any of this stuff. Go home. Call a professional. If you need a tap to your backyard - then buy a long garden hose ie 50m or whatever you need. Its a bit annoying given the training plumbers have had to go through, plus the expensive license fees, and public liability insurance required in some states ie Victoria. You can be prosecuted for "bodging" plumbing as well and on top of working on plumbing pipes without a license (even if you are doing a perfect job). My apprenticeship was hard work and so was my plumbing license studies. I don't like the sound of tampering with water supply pipework unlicensed at all. In England and throughout Asia its all open slather isn't it?

 

[Basher]

I had to look up "open slather" as it's not a term I'm familiar with. "Slather" has a completely different meaning in the UK!

For the benefit of any others interested:

What does it's open slather mean -
Australian and New Zealand slang. a situation in which there are no restrictions; free-for-all

Fair comment? There are plenty of regulations In UK!

 

[Deleted member 120897]

There are plenty of regulations In UK!

Aye, true, but not always adhered to and not policed very well

 

[Ric2013]

I've seen enough bad work done by those who ought to know better (i.e. 'competent persons') to start worrying about a DIYer who makes the effort to come on a web forum and take advice on how to carry out the work in a sound manner.

Any such system is a kind of cartel in a sense, but sometimes necessary for safety. The fact that there is one in Australia for basic water plumbing doesn't make it a good system for the UK. Australian law does not apply here as the OP is from Bedford UK and not Bedford in Australia, however much you may dislike the laws in the UK. In North Korea, you wouldn't be allowed to criticise the law, but that is equally irrelevant. I'm not quite sure why someone in another country, quite independent of the UK, is annoyed that, in the UK, people are DIYing work that he has to pay a lot of fees to be allowed to carry out because he's in a different country governed by different laws.

In any case, under UK law, even attaching a garden hose counts as a plumbing installation and has to meet certain requirements, obviously easier to enforce by engagement than by threatening people with fines.

So long as the OP fits a £5 double-check valve before his proposed pipework as he has described, and he's not proposing to run underground hoses, soaker devices, or similar high risk installations but just a tap, he could use old inner tube to plumb it in as far as the main risk here, viz. contamination of water, is concerned (not that I'm suggesting that idea would work: it wouldn't).