I have been working w/ Joe Dunn on a whole house design, which also includes roof located hydrants - V2 hydrants, a H/C hydrant at the garage and in a few months ground mounted hydrants around our home. Each time I have needed design or install assistance, Joe has been there EVERY time. I have also needed on a few occasions to request his support on some urgent shipments along the way, and again Joe has always come thru. He has been excellent to work with and I will be reaching out in a few months to plan the in ground hydrants around the house. Looking forward to trying them out in a few months, and while the house isn’t finished, we have had a number of people ask about them and I know when we are done, they will be a great addition to the value of our home. Thx, Rob
Opted to get an additional connector with flow control to have better management of how much water comes out the hose. This does the trick. This is a tough polymer-based material. Even still, I intend to keep this out of the intense Texas sun when not in use.
You may want to order a few different depths of these to have on hand for your installer and then send back what you don’t end up using. Aquor’s return process is excellent.
In some cases you may need a standoff mounting box like this, depending on your wall construction material and thickness. The 3" depth looks great and is unobtrusive.
Ended up choosing the brushed stainless steel cover version of this to withstand the insane Texas summer sun.
Even though V2+ is mostly advertised as meant for new construction, you can absolutely use these as a retrofit; you just need to open up your wall from inside the house to tear out your old bin and connect this new one.
Definitely recommend you find a YouTube install video for your plumber as these are not particularly common to most plumbers. Our plumber was impressed with the ingenious design and quality materials though.