Best Garden Hose - Garden Hose Thread If you have ever ventured into the gardening department of any large department store, home depot, or the like, you might have felt bewildered by the large selection of garden hoses, sprinklers and sprayers, and not least - garden hose fittings. There are just so many at first - that it seems impossible that they could all be useful, right?
Garden hoses are actually the simplest method of irrigating your garden. But if your garden is very large, you might benefit from having multiple garden hoses attached end to end.
Hoses are typically classified depending on usage, toughness, durability, and quality of the materials used. The Garden hoses can be either of three kinds:
Light Duty. Light duty garden hoses are made of lightweight material and can be handled very easily. You can use a light duty garden hose for fairly light gardening chores or light house cleaning. This type of hose is easy to move around and drag to different places. It can be wrapped around in a spool after use. It is usually made of hard plastic or rubber.
Medium Duty. Method duty hoses are suitable for general watering requirements. Resistant to kinks in addition to generally durable in addition to flexible, medium duty hoses are good for watering your yards or washing your car. Most also have a minimum of a five-year warranty.
Medium duty hoses can give out enough water pressure to take out the hardened dirt in hard to reach corners.
Although a bit heavy, this is extremely useful in working with big lawns or gardens.
Connect to tap
The most basic kind, which allows you to connect a hose to some tap. Just one kind, right? No, sir! Not only exist more than one standard size of tap/pipe to connect to; there is also a corresponding hose size. You could easily find yourself needing to connect a 1/2 inch hose to some 1 inch tap, or vice-versa. You will find types for connecting to outdoor taps - usually only a matter of screwing onto a thread - and also types for indoor taps. Indoor taps can be tricky to connect to, as they are often quite imaginatively shaped, but the company Hozelock has a special fitting which solves that just fine. You may also get connectors with check valves which prevent dirty water from flowing into the tap from the hose.
Connect with a hose
These are things like hose repair connectors which will connect two separate lengths of hose, as well as standard connectors for fast connecting to some tap-connector. Even the y-connector belongs here, allowing you to split a water supply in two for distribution.
Connect to guns or sprinkler
These are the connectors used at the business end of the garden hose - where you want to put a sprayer or sprinkler. These likewise have quick connect mechanisms, relieving you from endless turning of nuts, when you want to disconnect something.