Black outdoor tap

This tap has two outlets that do different jobs. The top spout, curved downwards, lets water flow freely: fill a watering can, a bucket, the dog's bowl. Just below, a ribbed nozzle takes the garden hose.

So the hose can stay connected permanently while you draw water beside it. On a terrace, near a vegetable patch or at the entrance to a garage, it saves unplugging and replugging ten times a day.

The matt black of the body and rosette goes well with anthracite window frames and metal fences.

Each outlet is controlled by its own cylindrical head and thin stem lever. The top lever opens the spout, the middle one opens the nozzle: you can tell at a glance which to use.

The supplier diagram gives 130 mm in length and 70 mm for each of the two heads, to within 1 or 2 mm. The set stays compact on the wall.

The two outlets are independent: you can open the spout without pressurising the hose, or run both at once. Handy for watering with one hand and filling a bucket with the other.

The male inlet thread screws onto a wall supply. Its diameter is not stated in the data: compare with your current outlet (15x21 for 1/2″, 20x27 for 3/4″) before ordering. PTFE tape, tighten with a spanner on the body, then the rosette.

When frost approaches, turn off the water upstream, open both levers until nothing more runs and remove the hose from the nozzle. A damp cloth is enough to keep the matt black clean.

In spring, close both levers before reopening the indoor valve, then check the inlet thread.