Garden hose: Seal the hole in the hose

What you need:

• Hose connector
• Hose clamps
• knife

In this way, the broken garden hose can be used again

When repairing the garden hose, it makes a difference whether you only use the hose for transporting Use water without it being subjected to pressure, or whether you use it to operate a sprinkler, a shower or Syringe.

• You can easily mend a pressureless hose with textile-reinforced adhesive tape. To be on the safe side, you can still compress the damaged area with a hose clamp.
• If water pressure is used, this solution is not sufficient. Then the patch must be just as pressure-resistant as the rest of the hose. Therefore, only professional systems come into consideration here.
• An easy-to-use solution is to use hose connectors. There you have to disconnect the garden hose at the critical point and put the two ends on the nozzles of the connecting pieces. It is attached with a simple screw connection.
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• Apart from a knife, no tools are required for this and the operation takes max. 5 minutes. The disadvantage of this system is the clunkiness of the patch, which is annoying when pulling in the garden and when winding up the hose.


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• A second variant for repairs is offered by simple connectors that are pushed into the hose ends on both sides. They are available in every common size in the hardware store and only cost a few cents.
• It is fastened here with the appropriate hose clamps, which are threaded onto the same place before the two ends of the hose are mated. Tightened firmly with the screwdriver, they reliably hold the patched area together.
• This type of repair also leaves a stiffened spot in the garden hose, but it is far less bulky and you only need a little more time for it.