Brass to plastic piping

[mikeh391]

I've identified this pipe:

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What I'm wanting to do is put a plastic connector on so I can run a hose pipe off it occasionally. Can I do this, and if so what do I need?
Before I start dismantling this, I thought I better ask the question for piece of mind.

I have a horrible feeling this question is beyond simple, but my internet searching has just brought up sites where I can buy different connectors.

 

[handyman77]

You say you've identified this pipe! What pipe is it? Where does it come from? Where is this located? Could be hot pipe, could be for central heating. Wounldnt just presume better to do some investigation. If you wanted to run a hose why not put an outside tap. Or is it for an internal Dutch garden?

 

[mikeh391]

Okay, thanks for an informative and clear-to-understand response.
Accepted though, perhaps I needed to be clearer.

This is a spare cold water feed (I have a hot water one just like it, but out of shot in the photo ) that was set up in case we wanted to later install a second en suite. When I say I've identified it, what I really meant was that I remembered it was there.

Basically, we are looking at having a large fish tank in the office/spare room (which is situated near the loft hatch, and I was looking at an easy way of getting water to it. I remembered the plumber putting this water feed in, and had the bright idea of wondering if I could fill it straight from here (via hose pipe). If I could attach a hose pipe fitting, it would mean I could just attach a hose and run it straight out the loft and into the office on the rare occasion I needed to, saving me a lot of hassle with water containers.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Burnerman]

There's a few ways of doing this, but you sure don't want any leaks around there so consider removing the blanked off piece of copper pipe, adding a short length of copper to the lever valve in its place, followed by a compression coupling onto a hose union bib tap (Toolstation 95844) or similar.
This allows you to connect a hosepipe to the tap, but remove it again when not in use.
Its a good idea to fix the tap to a joist if you can, and you'll need a wall plate elbow for that. (74070).
John

 

[handyman77]

Do as the burner man suggests and you won't go wrong!

 

[Charnwood]

It has a yellow handle.
Yellow in my book denotes gas!! (My book, Pegler's book, Altecnic's book et al.)
Are you sure it's cold water?

 

[handyman77]

If it ain't his, fish ain't gonna be happy.
Have had these levers specified before on jobs.