How to Connect Two Different Diameter Garden Hoses
A garden hose is a flexible, rubber tube that allows you to carry water from your spigot out to your plants and flowers. You can connect sprinklers and other items to the hose in order to effectively irrigate your lawn. Connecting more than one hose together can be as simple as screwing the two threaded ends together. A hose connector allows you to connect hoses of different sizes together, and is easier to screw onto the ends than continuously turning the hose to screw the ends together.
Measure the outside diameter of the end of your garden hoses. This will give you the size of connector that you will need to connect the two hoses together.
Write down the two measurements for your connector. Purchase a connector with two different sized ends at your local home improvement store. Ask a store assistant if you are having trouble finding the correct size. Choose a durable connector. Plastic connectors will crack easy and cause the hoses to leak at the connection. Brass connectors are durable, will resist weather and are less likely to rust.
- A garden hose is a flexible, rubber tube that allows you to carry water from your spigot out to your plants and flowers.
- Plastic connectors will crack easy and cause the hoses to leak at the connection.
Screw the connector onto one end of your garden hose. Then add the other hose by screwing it into the other end of connector. This will join the two hoses together.
Turn on your water supply and check for leaks at the connector site. Hand tighten the connection or use a wrench to tighten the connection until you no longer have a leak.
Connect Two Hoses
It isn't difficult to figure out how to join two garden hoses together if they already have standard fittings; you just screw the male connector of one hose into the female connector of the other. You can find parts to solve both connection problems at any garden center, and it's easy to modify your hoses yourself. Each connector comes with a 3/4-inch male or female hose thread connection, a barbed rod designed to fit inside a 3/4-, 5/8- or 1/2-inch hose and a crimp ring with screws for tightening it. To install a connector on a hose: 1. Fit the crimp ring around the end of the hose and join the two halves with the screws provided. You can join them instead with a coupler, which consists of a barbed rod that fits inside both hoses and a pair of rings for crimping the each hose onto the rod. Release the ring on the female connector to lock the two halves together.
- Screw the connector onto one end of your garden hose.
- You can join them instead with a coupler, which consists of a barbed rod that fits inside both hoses and a pair of rings for crimping the each hose onto the rod.
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