Hosepipe ban, serviced pitches
A hosepipe ban is due to start in an area I am visiting on 26th August. How will this affect my connection with the tap on a serviced pitch?
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The ban does not apply to using hosepipes for matters of health and safety. What is using water in a caravan if personal hygiene, cooking, drinking, toilet flushing are not classified as H&S?
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Have thought about this since I regularly ‘plumb’ the van in when it’s on the drive at home and we have a ban coming in, in 4 days time.
Although you’re using a length of flexible pipe - it’s not being used as a hosepipe. What’s the difference between what we all use and doing the job ‘properly’ with rigid pipe and plumbing fittings?
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Yes I think using a hose pipe to water your garden or wash your car is totally different to using a hose pipe to supply water to your outfit.
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The Smart Alec reply is that your connection at the tap will be unaffected. Once you have turned the tap on these are the things that you will not be able to do.
Use hosepipes - or anything that connects to a hosepipe or an outside tap - in order to:
* Water a garden or plants
* Fill a paddling or swimming pool
* Clean a car
* Fill a pond
* Clean walls or windowsBBC website used as the source of the information.
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If you are on a caravan site then then they are paying for the water on commercial and not domestic rate. It should be the same as our son's situation where he runs a small farm in Devon. When hosepipe bans come into force they are allowed to continue with the use of hoses for business purposes. The caravan site is a business.
Colin
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I see no difference to normal domestic water usage if you were to hire a holiday cottage in the same area. Changing the subject slightly, we are using a serviced pitch for the first time next month and just wondered if anyone has any useful tips?
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Have you got the tap connectors? each site uses slightly different ones so just buy a cheap garden set from Aldi like I did for under £3 to cover all bases? Enough blue and waste pipe length? The length will depend where the tap and drain are the site itself will help out. Also a Y splitter tap connector is useful so that you can still access water without having to take off the connector from the tap.
And once you've tried a SP it might be difficult to go back.
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Don't have to be expensive there are non-aquaroll products now available.
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Ok was not aware but just in case geoffeales, you are not sure what we are refering to, you can buy a ball cock device that screws into the side of the aqua roll that then attaches to the tap via the hose, you have to have this, no more topping up the aqua roll does it all for you , enjoy
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Fair point Ruffs, also GF you can do without getting the aquaroll out altogether by using a pressure reducing attachment and hose that goes straight into the pump socket on your caravan. Get the one that matches your system, Truma or Whale.
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I don’t. I’ve seen others ask the same question elsewhere. The whole thing is woolly.
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The first time we used a service pitch we just had the waste pipe and filled the aquaroll manually with a hose. As we decided we liked them we bought the ball cock device at great expense. This broke after about 3 years and I replaced it with one from B&Q for about £8, utilising the old screw cap. So if you happen to have a spare cap, you can drill a hole in it and make one up yourself.
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thanks for the advice guys, especially about having a variety of connectors. You'd think all sites would have a standard fitment, especially CAMC. I'd be a little nervous of connecting directly, if the pressure reduction failed wouldn't I get a flooded van? Anyway, I've ordered a complete kit for £20 on Ebay which includes stop-cock, seals, connectors and 5m flat hose. I just need to get some waste pipe and I'm sorted.
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Depending on where the tap is situated 5 metres might not be enough. If it’s at the back left hand corner, as on most new services pitches, it might just depending where the water inlet is on your van. However, older service pitches may have a bollard on the grass a bit further away. When we caravanned we had two joinable 8 metre lengths, 80% of the time one length was sufficient.
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Very wooly, TW. The wording of hosepipe ban seems to include pumping one's domestic house waste water into the garden. So bath water, for example, has to go to waste down the drain or be bailed out a canfull at a time to save the plants.
Which raises the question of should caravanners perhaps allow their Wastemasters to leak a bit onto the grass? Certainly on CLs distributing waste water along the hedgerow will be a saviour.
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Agree Steve - I carry 20m - split into 10, 7 & 3m lengths with connectors. We plumb into the water on a few of the CLs / CS's we go to regularly (I object to paying extra for the facility when I am providing all the kit!) and I also carry a 4-way tap splitter so that others can do the same from the same tap if they wish. Most of the time I can get away with the shorter lengths but on the CS we are on at the moment, where we always go on our favourite pitch, I need the full 20m.
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We use Flexi Wate pipes and the Fresh Mini kit from Colapz. Very rarely use the aquaroll and wastemaster these days.....
https://colapz.co.uk/collections/water-containers/products/fresh-mini-starter-kit
https://colapz.co.uk/collections/flexi-waste-pipes
They're not the cheapest solution, but once you've bought them, you won't need to buy them again!
David
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good tip, thanks, I have about 10m in the garden which I'll take just in case.
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Geoff - I also agree with David's (DSB) recommendation re the Colapz waste pipe. It IS an expensive solution but it is SO convenient. I have 8 metres which is stored in its own small draw-string bag and is in the van permanently - 'just in case'. It is so much better than having a great long coil of waste pipe to contend with.
Also - keep a few spare "O"- rings for the connectors. Over time, they go brittle and crack and the connector can pop out under pressure - as I found out this week, but fortunately I had a supply to hand.
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We purchased some waste plastic pipe and different fittings the same diameter as used on the caravan cut the pipe to convenient lengths and of course the elbows fit nicely on the caravan outlet plus we bought a set of those Velcro pipe supports that fit in the skirt rail and being ridged no water lies in the pipe
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Another vote for the colapz waste pipe. We have 8 metres in our MH, so much easier than the coiled stuff, which particularly in cold weather can be impossible to get straight. We use it both on a service pitch and for some awkward disposal accesses, particularly on small sites abroad. 4 year old granddaughter really enjoy stretching out and plugging them together on our recent trip. Saved me a job.😂
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