Hose connection

Rekusu · July 2023

What ho one and all,

I am not a fan of all the various plastic 'Hoselock' type connectors as in my opinion, they are rather poorly designed. However, given that the choice is rather limited, or even non-existent, I have to use them.

Foolishly, when building the house, I did not provide sufficient outside mains taps to access all areas of the garden, principally because I installed a very large rainwater collection thank, and did install taps for that. Unfortunately, when it runs dry, we have to use utilise mains water.

I have installed some remote taps which are supplied by the original outdoor tap that has a brass splitter thing for the Hoselock connectors. One short section of hose, from the tap to the underground pipe, is as the photo. But the arrowed part is an on-going problem, mainly because the very short section of hose (about 10mm) is only held into the connector by plastic 'teeth' that does not withstand the mains pressure. Result is that is frequently 'pops' off.

My question is, is there a better, or more solidly made connector to connector a hose to a 15mm brass pipe that will hold the mains pressure?

Thanks and toodle pip.

steephill · July 2023

I have just replaced all my plastic connectors with brass versions from here - https://www.waterirrigation.co.uk/hoses-and-accessories/tap-and-hose-connectors/brass-connectors.html They are better quality and cheaper than the plastic versions from the usual suspects.

Pete.8 · July 2023

Have you checked the O rings on the connector.
I had a leaky one recently and it was only on very close inspection that I noticed one of the O rings was very slightly damaged - it was barely noticeable, but was the cause of the leak.
So I ordered these and now no drips

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0011JDAQ0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1200KMXDQ3NF7&psc=1

Topbird · July 2023

Would also suggest using better quality fittings. I am not a fan of Hoselock - good for a few weeks and then not.

Gardena fittings are still plastic but definitely seem to be a superior quality.

I also have some decent quality brass fittings (probably the same ones @Steephill has suggested). They are also much better than Hoselock but (IMO) not that much better than Gardena. My head tells me that metal to metal and plastic to plastic fittings should work better than metal to plastic (different rates of expansion in heat and cold)

Not sure if you could cobble something together using a connector like this
https://www.waterirrigation.co.uk/hoses-and-accessories/tap-and-hose-connectors/brass-connectors/hydrosure-brass-threaded-tap-connector-3-4-x-19mm.html

or the sort of connector you fit over an indoor mixer tap?

Rekusu · July 2023

Thanks for the replies; the Water irrigation link is really interesting. Did not know there were so many brass fittings available.

Agreed about the use of better quality fittings. A few years ago, I installed some additional outside taps using the 22mm blue mains water pipe and have that blue pipe exiting directly to the remote taps. The problem is at the 'input' end, where the mains water tap feeds the extension pipe. I have a short length of hose from the tap to the ground, where there is a length of 15mm copper fitted to the 22mm water pipe in the ground. The first photo is one of those rubber connectors that clamps and jubilee clips to different diameter fittings. In this case, directly onto the 15mm copper pipe. I soldered an olive to the pipe and the jubilee clip prevents it 'blowing' off due to mains pressure.

The problem is the stupid short bit of hose that does not really 'clamp' tightly into the screw-down bit on top. Pressure just finds it way to cause a leak so I am looking for better solution. the hose is fine, just want a better way to connect the hose to the 15mm copper.

This is the set-up:

Hose connection

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