How to Repair a Garden Hose

Fix leaky garden hoses quickly and cheaply.

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Time

An hour or less

Complexity

Beginner

Cost

$5–x

Introduction

There is nothing more frustrating than a leaky garden hose. Half your h2o goes down the storm drain or onto your shoes and not on your lawn. It doesn't have to be that way. Read on to learn some quick, inexpensive and easy garden hose fixes.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • Garden hose repair couplings

Project footstep-by-footstep (five)

Step one

Where is the Leak?

  • If water is leaking from either end of the hose, such as at the faucet or spray attachment, the fix could be as unproblematic every bit replacing the rubber washers in the female person cease of the hose and or spray attachment.
  • If a leak is within a human foot of the male person or female connectors, cut off the end of the hose and supervene upon the connector.
  • If the leak is in the middle of the hose, cut out the damaged department and splice the hose back together with a repair coupling.

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Stride ii

Mensurate

  • Before heading to the hardware store for repair parts, measure what size garden hose you have. The 3 common sizes of garden hose are i/2-, 5/8-, and 3/4-inch. That is the ID (inside diameter) of the hose.
  • The OD (exterior bore) is typically 1/eight-inch larger than the ID. So a 5/8-inch hose has a iii/4-inch OD.

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Step four

Four Easy Repairs

Clench Hose Menders

  • Supervene upon the ends or splice the middle of a hose with clinch hose menders. Once you have the damage section cutting off the hose, stick the spinous end of the repair fitting into the hose. Curve the tangs down and into the hose, squeezing it evenly with a pair of pliers, aqueduct locks or vice grips.

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Clamp Couplers

  • Clamp couplers for ends and splicing hoses are some other easy hose fix.
  • Remove the screws and embrace from the coupler.
  • Stick the spinous end into the hose.
  • Supplant the cover and tighten the screws.

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Hose Clamps

  • Hose clamps and a 3-inch piece of 1/ii-inch copper tubing work well for a splice repair.
  • Sideslip a hose clamp over the end of the cutting hose.
  • Insert the 1/ii-inch piece of copper tubing into the hose, letting 1-1/ii inches stick out. At present, tighten the hose clamp with a screwdriver.
  • Skid another hose clamp over the finish of the other piece of cut hose. Insert the ane/2-inch piece of copper tubing and tighten the clench with a screwdriver.

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Pinch Mender

  • Compression mender probably is the easiest garden hose fix.
  • Unscrew and split the collar from the repair fitting.
  • Sideslip the collar over the hose.
  • Push button the repair plumbing fixtures onto the hose, then screw and tighten the neckband to the repair plumbing fixtures.

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Step five

Test for Leaks

  • Connect the hose to the faucet and turn it on, checking for leaks.
  • If a repair leaks, endeavor tightening the screws or neckband on the fitting.

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Originally Published: Baronial 06, 2022