I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard.
I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much.
Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy
I haven't tried this but...................... Can you unroll it as much as possible, then air it up with a compressor close to the hose's maximum pressure?
I assumed that he was talking about curls in the hose - not kinks. Getting P-O'd at the curls often causes kinks. John T.
How can you air up a water hose with an air compressor?
The fittings are incompatible.
Andy
I am not talking about kinks.
Just those curls that were present when it was coiled up at the store.
Andy
Lay it out in the sun for a few hours and it will soften.
Use the same curls that the hose came with to hang up the hose.
You certainly don't want the hose straight so you have to hand one end
50' from the other end.if the hose were straight, you'd have to make those curls.
micky expressed precisely :
Many hoses become quite pliable if you let the sun heat them up. I don't think the coiling can be prevented or undone completely though.
+1 That's what I do.
My hoses never get hung up and have been laying in the yard for years. They've long ago forgotten about any curls they used to have.
I would do that, but I live in an apartment.
Andy
I bet your hardware store has garden hose to plumbing adapters. Garden hose thread (ght) to national pipe thread (npt).
Indeed.
New hoses come coiled pretty tightly; to straighten you have to take the twist introduced in the coiling process out...straighten it out and keep twisting one end until have it straight -- it's convenient if it happens to have enough of a design on the cover to be able to see when it is actually straight.
Give it some time in that position to relax...of course, when you get ready to roll it back up, you'll reintroduce the twist for each coil, but if you don't use a hose reel and use large coil size it'll be a much lower number of twists overall...
As another says, on the farm we've got acres of yard so just leaving them out is easy; in an apartment tough to do that...
Of course, if they stay out in the hot sun and UV for too long, many will then also harden from the UV damage...can't win for losing. That may not be such an issue in more temperate climes...
How about one of those weird hoses that grow in length when you turn on the water, but shrink back down small enough to fit in a bucket when you turn the water off?
I'm not normally a fan of those things but they could be OK for an apartment dweller.
I have a couple of rubber hoses from Sears. They are the best hoses I've had, except they are heavy.
My wife has a big garden and we tried a couple of those. They are really nice - light weight and easy to store. But both developed leaks in one season, with no abuse. If you can find one at the right price, it might be worth it.
On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:07:38 -0400, FromTheRafters posted for all of us to digest...
+1 Or fill it with water and let the sun heat it and straighten then release pressure.
My wife bought one on impulse about 6 months ago. It lasted just a few months before the end exploded and blew off. Then again, we have unusually high water pressure here. The neighbor's lawn sprinkler easily shoots water about 75-80 feet and would easily do more but he limits it. The irrigation and sprinkler guy recommends adding a pressure regulator to each hose spigot but we haven't done that yet. Meanwhile, in addition to blowing the end off of the cute retracting hose, we've blown up two other garden hoses and a third is on its last legs. I expect it to blow any day now. We're having sprinklers put in and that should mostly stop the heavy use of hoses.
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