Can You Use A Hosepipe For Building Work (Hosepipe Ban 2012)

[EViS]

Can builders use a domestic hosepipe to carry out their building work (e.g. mixing concrete in a mixer)?

 

[^woody^]

Yes.

And don't forget to accidentally spray the garden too

 

[xdave]

Is that the same for homeowners doing DIY builds?

 

[^woody^]

The concept is that you don't use [waste] lots of water via a hosepipe

So its not the use of the hosepipe which is banned, but what you do with the water coming out of the end

So using a hosepipe to put 1/2 a bucket of water into a mixer is not really something which the authorities are concerned about

 

[Zulley]

Its mainly washing cars and watering the garden. As woody said, using a hosepipe to wash your car uses loads of water compared to the old 2 bucket wash.

Builders will be alright, car wash people (whos actual job is washing cars).

They are stopping people wasting water, not banning the use of it all together,

 

[kevindgas]

they should close down the "carwash" the ones run by groups of immigrants with buckets excetera