How to Repair a Garden Hose

Fix leaky garden hoses quickly and cheaply.

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Time

An hour or less

Complication

Beginner

Price

$5–10

Introduction

At that place is zip more frustrating than a leaky garden hose. Half your water goes down the tempest drain or onto your shoes and not on your lawn. It doesn't have to exist that way. Read on to larn some quick, cheap and easy garden hose fixes.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • Garden hose repair couplings

Project step-past-step (5)

Stride ane

Where is the Leak?

  • If water is leaking from either end of the hose, such equally at the faucet or spray attachment, the fix could exist as simple as replacing the prophylactic washers in the female finish of the hose and or spray attachment.
  • If a leak is within a pes of the male or female connectors, cut off the end of the hose and supercede the connector.
  • If the leak is in the eye of the hose, cutting out the damaged section and splice the hose back together with a repair coupling.

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Step ii

Mensurate

  • Before heading to the hardware shop for repair parts, measure what size garden hose y'all take. The 3 common sizes of garden hose are 1/2-, 5/viii-, and 3/4-inch. That is the ID (inside bore) of the hose.
  • The OD (outside bore) is typically 1/8-inch larger than the ID. So a 5/8-inch hose has a 3/4-inch OD.

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Step 4

4 Easy Repairs

Clench Hose Menders

  • Replace the ends or splice the eye of a hose with clinch hose menders. Once y'all take the damage section cutting off the hose, stick the barbed end of the repair fitting into the hose. Bend the tangs downwards and into the hose, squeezing it evenly with a pair of pliers, channel 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 terminate into the hose.
  • Replace the cover and tighten the screws.

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Hose Clamps

  • Hose clamps and a iii-inch slice of 1/ii-inch copper tubing piece of work well for a splice repair.
  • Sideslip a hose clamp over the end of the cutting hose.
  • Insert the 1/2-inch slice of copper tubing into the hose, letting 1-1/2 inches stick out. Now, tighten the hose clamp with a screwdriver.
  • Slip some other hose clench over the end of the other piece of cut hose. Insert the one/two-inch slice of copper tubing and tighten the clamp with a screwdriver.

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Compression Mender

  • Pinch mender probably is the easiest garden hose ready.
  • Unscrew and carve up the collar from the repair fitting.
  • Slip the neckband over the hose.
  • Push the repair fitting onto the hose, then screw and tighten the collar to the repair fitting.

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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, try tightening the screws or collar on the fitting.

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