Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Leaky Hose Connection

If you’ve ever connected a hose to a hose bib and lots of water spray out from the connection, it’s probably because you are missing the O-Ring or rubber ring that looks like a washer. Now I recently purchased a hose and when I was taking it from the car to the hose bib the washer fell out. So lots of leaks at the connection. I looked on the packaging and couldn’t find any directions or warnings on what to look for so I thought I’d do this post to help you out.

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To fix the leak find the O-Ring, if you don’t find one take it back to where you purchased the hose and exchange it for a hose set to that has one. Sometimes the O-Ring is attached to the hose packaging, so make sure you don’t loose it as you get the hose ready to use.

Next take the O-Ring and place it in the end of the hose that connects to the hose bib.

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Once added the hose connection should not leak.

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The sprayer connection to the other end of the hose should also have the O-ring or some other method to prevent water from leaking from connection. So know you know how to stop the leaking and save yourself some money.

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