Hosepipes

[dave45]

I have an outside tap and a semi-permanent 50 meter hosepipe to the veggie patch and greenhouse. I have tried various "Hozelock" ends over the years and to be honest none of them are of any long-term use - you know the cute little sprayer ends - the screw-on clip-on connectors etc. They ALL leak sooner or later - even the brass ones. The plastic connectors and attachments seem to be deliberately UV degradable and don't last a summer. Originals and pouns-shop equivalents seem identical in (crap) perfomance. I have also noted that the hosepipe itself also bulges under continuous water pressure, stretches and evades the compression thingy in the connectors to cause a further leak source.

I'd like to have the hosepipe under pressure with no leaks at the tap end, intermediate connectors or sprayer end. Something like a semi-permanent jubilee clip end would be good !

What do other folk do?

(and the cold weather has caused a micro leak in my outside brass tap - now squirts a 3-foot pin-diameter jet from the brass casing when the taps is on!).

And I am useless at plumbing.

[Millymollymandy]

I have a mental block and can't remember the name of my brand, but all their tools are orange and turquoisey blue! They make the spray connectors for hosepipes too and we don't have any leaks or problems. Ah ah ah I think it is Gardena! Yup that's them and they have a UK site too.

http://www.gardena.com/opencms/opencms/ ... index.html

[Odsox]

I use light weight alkathene pipe to get to the various taps dotted around my gardens, in some places laying on the surface and in other places where I'm likely to trip over it, I have buried it about 6".
That uses fittings that stay put and will take a frost as they are all semi flexible.
Then from the taps I'm the same as you, with a hose pipe jubilee clipped to the tap and a spray head at the other end.

[Millymollymandy]

I've just checked with my OH. On our tap the gardena widget screws on to the brass tap threads. We have a double widget which allows you to have a hosepipe on one side (clicks into place) and run water out of the other side i.e. to a watering can. Each of the two 'taps' has a thing that closes it. No leakage and has worked perfectly for years.