Water nozzles

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On these here French aires, there’s a water outlet, looks like a chrome plated hozelock.
Not that I’ve got one with me, is it a hozelock fitting? It looks a bit smaller. I use watering cans to fill up when I’m away from home, or who ever has been silly enough, no sorry, kind enough to leave a hose handy.
My question. Is it a standard male hozelock , or a specialist piece of Campervan kit? And therefore three times the price of normal stuff. If that’s the only way off getting water I’ll be in a fix within the next couple of days.

Recommendations for purchase in France, see voo plat. Murky buckets.
See, I’m getting a hang on the language
 
From your description it appears to be a hozelock type push in connection. If so I use this to connect my hose to it.
 

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Any that I have encountered use the standard hozelock fitting as shown by Rayc. Should be available from Mr. Bricolage (diy) or a jardiland (garden centre chain). Probably available at the larger, super U, le cleric etc.

Tip. Make sure you have the fitting inserted into your hose before connecting to male fitting on the service post. As soon as you start to insert the fitting water will start to flow and if the pressure is good you could get a shower!

Davy
 
I bought the watering cans to save having to carry wet hoses. Got that wrong, again. Thanks all.
Another on the the plastic. My flexible friend.
 
Look for a Bricomarche Del, that fitting is only a few Euros but I carry a hose and a few other adaptors as well to get water from any outlet
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Campervanannie said:
I’m so glad you’ve gone before me i can learn by your mistakes ???
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I specialise in mistakes. I’ll try to keep you updated. I’ve plenty more to make before I’m finish .


Tezza33 said:
Look for a Bricomarche Del, that fitting is only a few Euros but I carry a hose and a few other adaptors as well to get water from any outlet
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Thanks Terry, I’m alright for now, still got over half a tank.
Would I need to buy some hose as well. Yes I know that sounds stupid, but I’ve got the watering cans and I’m not that keen on having wet hoses in the van. Suppose I could hang it on the bike rack
 
It depends where you get the water from, sometimes it is timed and you cannot use a watering can so a short hose is useful, if you hold it above your head and swing it around most of the water comes out, I have an external locker so that it doesn't need to go in the van but it isn't that wet to start with, I wipe the outside of it dry which helps and you could join the two ends together for storage by using this

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and putting one of these on both ends
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they are things I always carry anyway
 
I have one of the hoses that expands when you fill it with water and a selection of many fittings. You can still get caught out by weird connections.
 
Over the years I kept thinking I had adaptors for all taps, only then to fund yet another size. The nesting set of three covers three diameters, but these were not bought as a set but acquired at different times. The middle (green) one and the separate yellow one are the usual UK fittings. The rubber flexible fitting can be useful for taps without threads. However I am sure another size / type will appear on my travels to trip me up.

I used to manage with a 1m hose, one used to connect a washing machine to a tap, which worked ok as with many aires you can get pretty close. However having been caught out a few times I now have a 3m hose, stored in plastic bag, plus a collapsible 15l container and funnel.

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TeamRienza said:
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Tip. Make sure you have the fitting inserted into your hose before connecting to male fitting on the service post. As soon as you start to insert the fitting water will start to flow and if the pressure is good you could get a shower!

Davy
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Actually, it's a female fitting on the service point, because your adapter is male/male. Just as important as how you connect is how you disconnect! Make sure that you push in the sleeve on the service point to disconnect; if you push on the sleeve on your own fitting, you'll leave the adapter in the service point and the water will continue to jet out.
 
UFO said:
<snip> The rubber flexible fitting can be useful for taps without threads. However I am sure another size / type will appear on my travels to trip me up.

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Another very useful fitting can be seen at https://www.espares.co.uk/product/es510008/washing-machinedishwasher-hose-tap-adaptor

Useful for those short, non-circular outlets that require you to hold in a push-button, where the flexible rubber filling probably won't grip. Must also make up something to hold in the push-button!
 
I got myself a nice selection of fittings from The Range, including a couple of the male/male ones which by the way are extremely expensive if you buy the
Hozelock version. Even eBay ones are only a quid or so.

If you get a couple of the male/male ones you can join together a couple of hoses for extra length. Mine are on a 25m runflat and a shorter 5m length if I can get alongside the borne easily.
 
Now got a full range. Got everything, really . That is of course until I haven’t, and desperate for water. ?
 
Filled up this morning, and yes I needed the jubilee clip one. Not got one of course. Reverted to watering can. Luckily I only needed 20 litres or so. I’ll have to look for one next time l’m near a Chinese shop. From what I can see they’re Spain’s answer to a pound shop. Nothings a pound of course, but mega cheap .
 
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