Best hose for supply to Karcher pressure washer

[Gogs]

The current hose I use for my pressure washer has seen better days and its a nightmare to coil up to.

So I bought one of that recoil hoses...this one to be precise :

fits on my tap fine and appears to fit onto the Karcher fine too after removing the spray head, however once you put the water on it just blows off the Karcher end....

Any ideas and yes its seated on properly.

The connections I have used on the other hose and the hozelock ones and never had a problem, however not sure these ones come off in the same manor as the hozelock ones.

Anyone got any experience in using thiis recoil hose for a pressure washer

Thanks

[Phil L]

> It fits on my tap fine and appears to fit onto the Karcher fine too

Get the hosepipe and cut it into pieces, about 6 inches long will suffice, then throw them all in the bin - these are inventions of the devil - I struggled with one for 2 years before finally having a fight with the piece of crap and hacking it to bits, they kink all the time and no water get's through and you can't get the kinks out - they just move down the coil, the fittings at each end are like no others on earth - forget attempting to connect it to anything - I had to chop both ends off when I first got mine and affixed the hozelok ones on, - Oh, and the coils of it will wrap around themselves into a tight ball that will take a fortnight to untangle, it will also snag on bushes, blades of grass, everything you posess etc until you finally do as I did as mentioned on line 1, a sharp knife works a treat.

[Gogs]

I only need to as a supply to my washer which is never rolled out that far and its a straight run usually but its no good to me if the connections blow off....

So the hoze lock ones go on ok but you need to cut the others off?

I had a go at removing them like you would the hozelocks but it didnt want to budge and didnt want to force it too much....as if the hose is not fit for puropose then I will have to go back to using other stuff but try and get some that may be anti kink.

The connection do seem to be fit fine, just the one on the washer just flys off under pressure.

Anyone recommend a good supply hose?

[ironer]

> It fits on my tap fine and appears to fit onto the Karcher fine too

Just a thought - many hose pipes are fitted with connectors wihich incorporate a check valve. IIRC it says somewhere in the instructions that Karcher pressure washers require feed hose pipes with straight through connectors. (and no other obstructions to flow anywhere in line). This may not be your problem, but may I suggest it is worth a look?

HTH

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[Gogs]

Thanks for the reply, is there away of telling if one of these connectors has such a valve?

[Doki]

Generally hozelock type connectors are made so that if you remove the rose or whatever tool from it, whilst the water's still on, water doesn't come out. That's what I think the bloke's getting at.

[david lang]

Spot on mate. Not just Karcher - any make will suffer from a fitting with a check valve. THe suction from the pump pulls them closed so you get water starvation.

[david lang]

Look down the end, you should be able to see right through it or poke something right through it.

[The Wanderer]

>>> It fits on my tap fine and appears to fit onto the Karcher fine too

Whilst I agree completely with your comments about using connectors with check valves - I've had exactly that problem with my elderly Kew - if I've read the OP correctly, that ain't his problem.

The problem seems to be that the female hose connector *appears* as though it's fitted onto the Karcher properly, but as soon as he turns on the water, the hoze connector parts from the male spigot on the Karcher.

To the OP, first, check to see whether the rubber sealing ring on the spigot is showing any signs of wear, if it's compressed with age. You can get repair packs of O rings for these at most of the sheds. Alternatively buy a new (hozelock) connector for the end of the pipe, assuming that Hozelock fittings on the old hose worked OK.

Err, you did try swapping fittings between hozes to see if that cured the problem, didn't you?

On my Kew, the male spigot is a screw-on fitting, like a tap connector. It might also be useful to consider changing that.

[Gogs]

Thanks for the reply, I checked the connection on the Karcher and it looks fine and the hozelock connection on my old hose never comes off.

I didn't try putting my hozelock connecitons onto the hose as I had a look at it and didnt want to force them off so looked here for help and if you look at the first reply, they seemed to think it wasn't possible?

I unscrew the connecitons on the recoil hose as you would with the hozelock ones but the connection doesnt seem to come off so didnt want to force it and certinally didnt want to butcher it to see if the hozelock ones fit without clarification that it is possible.

The recoil hose does appear to be thinner than your standard hose so not so sure the hozelock kit I have would fit anyway.

Any ideas on whats best to do?

Would be interested if anyone has this draper hose hooked upto a pressure washer with success and if so how they got round it.

[The Wanderer]

Then I can only guess that the Draper fittings aren't fully compatible with Hozelock fittings. In which case, buy a Draper tap connector (assuming that's what's used on the Karcher) and use that.

[Gogs]

The draper goes onto the hozelock I have at the tap end and doesnt blow off and it appears to fit very well on the karcher side but just blows off and thats without starting the washer, thats just with turning on the water to feed the karcher

[The Wanderer]

Well, I've given you everything that's occured to me. You seem reluctant to try a bit of swapping to see if different fittings will solve the problem. That would have been my *first* move before even asking here for help.

[Gogs]

No I would swap them and that is what I set out to do before even considering asking for advice.

However when you screw these fittings off, they appear to be different from your run of the mill ones and as you can see from the first reply, the person says he has not seen fitting like them before.

I just didnt want to force it or butcher it what with it being a brand new hose hence looking for advice on the matter, hoping someone else has had the same issue and managed to make the hose usable for this purpose.

The recoil hose seems to be 3/8 so that smaller than your standard hose I think.

How do you suggest I get different connections onto this hose, force the existing ones off or just cut them off and try to get the hozelock ones to fit?