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My outside tap.... thoughts?

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VC:
Giving up on it now so thought i would put a post up here for ideas as autoperfection will be landing on my doorstep to detail 2 cars soon, so need to solve this

my house was built in the 70's and 2 years ago i moved in. the tap had an orange adaptor on it to allow me to click a hoselock hose end onto it and therefore meant i could wash the cars and buy a pressure washer.

well, the adaptor snapped.

the tap is a brass thing, not old, with a threaded end. i've been scouring for a new adaptor everywhere and nothing fits! i've bought almost everything from B&Q and Wyevale garden center and no joy, none of the adaptors, step ups or step downs etc will go on.

the closest i found was a 19mm one and that seems to be almost right but is just a fraction too small, almost as if it could do with being 19.5 or 20mm (a 21 is too big)

i know this is an odd question, but officially stumped now. currently suffering with a push-on-and-clamp-rubber-adaptor-piece-of-rubbish that sprays half the water up the wall and not down the hose
 
by some freak of nature has this happened to anyone else? am i just being dumb or do i need to get a plumber in to put me a new tap on?

:chicken:

VC:
the offending beastie:



(and yes i know the brickwork needs repointing  :smiley: perils of living on the coast)

autoperfection.com:
We've got a local company to us called Building and Plumbing supplies who do all that sort of stuff - we could pop in and see what they've got... if there's anything that looks like it might be right we could always pop it in the post for you to try?

VC:
this is the trouble with living in an area without decent shops like that  :ashamed: the views nice tho

i'm wondering wether its a metric/imperial issue?

i am worried you wont be able to use your gear

autoperfection.com:
Well we can pop into BPS and see what we can find - if there's something that fits then hey-presto, problem solved... if not though, we'll work something out for when we're down there  :happy2:

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