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tap attachment for French taps
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23-04-2013 9:24pm#1
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My experience is that a lot of the taps over there, especially the ones in the aires, are a non standard type which will not allow easy attachment of a hose. Some are like bathroom taps and you simply have to try and get the rubber seal around it as best you can. The other problem is opening the tap. Many of the aires ones are push operated, meaning you have to stand by it and hold it down for the length of time it takes to fill. Frustrating...but if it's sunny you don't mind
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Yeah, thats what I've seen too
As said in my previous post, the taps have a metric thread and the imperial thread units you can buy here sometimes won't fit properly, which is why you need to buy the metric screw-on adapter as well.
I have the two imperial sizes, 1/2" & 3/4" (I find that the 3/4" does fit a lot of the French taps) and the two metric sizes, 25mm & 30mm (which I only have to use on very rare occassions), in my 'bag of bits' and have never found a tap I couldn't connect to.
As regards the push taps, many of those have to be kept pressed in while filling as they are set to cut off immediately they are released, a pain in the ar@e in know, but it's to prevent water wastage.
Tip: use a short length of wood with a squere of something non-slip stuck on the end to press in the button, it's much easier on the hand, for a de-lux model screw a little pad to the other end and you can just lean against it
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well they don't all have a screw connection by any stretch of the imagination. I came across loads last year that were of the type in this pic - I know the taps at the toilet emptying points are mostly like this, but loads of fresh water ones are too. I guess another type of adapter is needed for those taps!
Not doubting your experiences.
Often there are more than one tap one of which is for rinsing out the toilet cassette, as a rule this tap does not have a thread so people will not be tempted to use it for drinking water. You don't want a tap which is contaminated to come near drinking water.
Hope you weren't selecting this tap for you filling you water tank :eek:
My own is of filling up hundreds of times in France over the last eight years and never coming across a tap that didn't have a thread. We spend many weeks there every year and over 90% of the time use 'Aires',
I would add however, that some of the chrome taps can look like they don't have a thread unless you look closely and quite a short thread can be seen, but it's enough to make a watertight connection.
Referring the the OP I think he/she should now have enough information to answer his/hers original concerns
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AutostratusEB wrote: »I've found that a watering can overcomes almost any tap in any European country...:-)
Ferrying 120 litres by watering can would give me very long arms
not to mention what it would do to the ould back :eek: 0 -
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