Hogging taps
I've stayed on several CLs this last year and I'm beginning to get a bit fed up with some caravanners who think they have exclusive rights to the water tap and semi-permanently connect their hose to it either directly feeding into their van or into a barrel
fitted with a ball valve. Fine on a fully serviced pitch, not so great when it's the only tap to be shared by everyone. I'm getting tired of having to turn the tap off, disconnect their hose, fill my water carrier and then reconnect them. It's sorely tempting
to leave them disconnected but I suppose that might create issues with water heaters and pumps running dry.
Am I the only one to have come across this issue? It certainly seems to be getting more widespread. I think this sort of behaviour is unacceptable but the CL owners seem to just want an easy life and not do anything about it.
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Not had it happen, but if it was the only tap, I don't think I would re connect it.
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I've stayed on several CLs this last year and I'm beginning to get a bit fed up with some caravanners who think they have exclusive rights to the water tap and semi-permanently connect their hose to it either directly feeding into their van or into a barrel
fitted with a ball valve. Fine on a fully serviced pitch, not so great when it's the only tap to be shared by everyone. I'm getting tired of having to turn the tap off, disconnect their hose, fill my water carrier and then reconnect them. It's sorely tempting
to leave them disconnected but I suppose that might create issues with water heaters and pumps running dry.Am I the only one to have come across this issue? It certainly seems to be getting more widespread. I think this sort of behaviour is unacceptable but the CL owners seem to just want an easy life and not do anything about it.
I would certainly not reconnect. I would ask them politely to first keep it unconnected, but if they don't then so be it. When I come to use it, it doesn't get reconnected. Simples
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Take said pipe off, fill aquaroll up then replace said pipe,simples...lifes too short.
I agree, but some people do only think about themselves and no-one else. Must admit that I've not see it on all the CL's we've used but do not doubt that it happens.
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I would have a word with them - and if they didn't take notice then I'd have a word with the owner of the CL or CS. If that still didn't work then I might be tempted to find a small animal to knaw through their hosepipe in the middle of the night?
Or are you a secret 'pollster' conducting a survey about the type of replies you get on this forum and others.....................?
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Hogging taps - not for washing pigs then?
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Deja vu
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Only ever stayed on CL's , I have never come across this , each to there own , but filling your Aqua rolls , emptying yr waste master etc , is it not part of what we caravaners do ???
If I came acrossed it , I would remove the hose and then put it back on I guess , most sites I come across cos I like to "tuck " myself away the water tap is a good distance away , so I hook my Aqua roll on the tow bar sometimes .
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At least that’s not likely to start (water) pistols at dawn, except that you need a female connector on the tap-side port. If someone has beaten you to it, you will need to remove a tap connector to get to the thread. What will you do with the tap connector?
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Fortunately I have never come across selfish behaviour like described on any CL. If I did, I would disconnect their hoselock connector and put it down on the ground, fill my rollerball and leave the tap for others to use.
Water taps, unless dedicated to a specific pitch, are for everybody to use.-- Not just for the ignorant selfish character who couldn't give a damn about anybody else's needs.
K
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I have to admit, if we are close enough, we Will leave our hose (unconnected) near the tap and to our van but we ALWAYS tell other vanners to help themselves if the hose reaches to save them rolling their container to the tap. I wouldnt dream of leaving
it connected. Very selfish and very rude And indeed, like others, I would simply disconnect and let them wonder where their supply was.0 -
We've run our CL for nearly 14 years and have never seen guests hog a tap as you describe.
Ian Kelly
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This was the very reason why I put water on every pitch, so that folks don't have to trail water about and have their showers in peace. Not an expensive or hard job to do with UPVC piping and connections.
David www.perthshirecl.co.uk
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You're spoiling 'em. You'll be offering silk underwear in lieu of hair shirts next.
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You're spoiling 'em. You'll be offering silk underwear in lieu of hair shirts next.
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What size are you Cyberyacht, got some empty chicken feed bags I could maybe resize !.
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Seen many a farm worker in a fertilizer "Waterproof" == just crop the corner for arms and clip a hole for head and keep them thar paid staff graftin' by 'eck !!
Then the Vanners will be clamouring for their own samples == that will take their minds off the taps & who is Hogging them.
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Is it acceptable/permitted to connected a splitter to the tap and leave your water pipe connected to one side of the connector, leaving the other side available for others to use?
That wouldn't bother me, I expect an outlet to be available where I can turn a tap and water emerges and that would allow it. It's not the extra 10 seconds involved when someone hogs it completely, but my annoyance at their selfishness that would have me leaving it on the ground.
But in all honesty, I have yet to come across it.
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Is it acceptable/permitted to connected a splitter to the tap and leave your water pipe connected to one side of the connector, leaving the other side available for others to use?
Never come across anyone doing this. OK I suppose if only you and one other on the site, but if only one shared tap and more than 2 vans, I think you could be thought of as taking advantage unfairly.
(As in....you have done it but nobody else can)
Is it so difficult just to connect up the hose when you actually want to use it? Or do as most do and take the water container to the tap?
If you want, or need, a serviced pitch, there are CLs that provide this.
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