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You see, once upon a time there were great coil garden hoses manufactured in the United States. The best materials and manufacturing techniques were used and the people with years of polyurethane coil hose manufacturing experience
worked to produce very high-end products. Once the flood of the low-quality imports hit the stores, however, you know what happened next. The good news. Quality coil water hose is back. Some of the same people who brought you a great product before are doing it again. Why? Because American consumers deserve better and the owners of Water Right love what they do. Check this out. Shall we continue? Water Flow Rates Many of our customers have asked us to compare water flow rates between our slim hose and traditional 5/8 size garden hose. We thought we would have some fun with this and put together a low-tech "test lab" in our driveway this summer as a simple way to illustrate the difference. • A 0-150 PSI pressure gauge to verify our water pressure. (Actual pressure at time of testing each hose: 80 PSI). • 1 sharpie pen • 5 one gallon milk jugs full of water. (Subsequently emptied into our 5 gallon bucket to mark the 4 and 5 gallon marks) . • 1 five gallon bucket. • 1 each 5/8 garden hose 25 ft in length. • 1 each slim and light hose 25 ft in length. • Both hoses were all coiled up on the ground by the bucket. Here is what we did: • Both hoses were allowed to flow for exactly 1 minute into our 5 gallon bucket and we marked the final water line with our sharpie. Here are the water flow results: • 5/8 garden hose: 4.875 gallons per minute; our slim hose: 4.125 gallons per minute. Notes: The maximum water our hose bib/faucet flowed out (at 80 PSI) without any hose installed was 5 gallons per minute. You see, most homes in America are plumbed with ½ copper pipe and can only flow approximately 4-5 gallons (at 50-80psi ) per minute no matter what size hose you install on your hose bib (faucet). This is the typical plumbing in homes in the USA built after the mid 1960's. Some older homes have used 3/4 inch pipes for their water lines in the past but not anymore. Larger pipes deliver way too much force for bathrooms and kitchens which is why building code for residential is1/2 inch. Unless you are hooking up to an irrigation system in the yard, or off of a main line from the municipality (usually 3/4 or 1 inch), you can't get more water out of a garden hose than what our test results show. (Assuming 25 ft garden hose, 1/2 inch pipe and 50-80 psi). So with that said, if you are hooking up to a standard household faucet, our slim hose performs very, very well. Yes, if you use a 5/8 hose you will get the most flow. Is it that much more…not really. It just really depends on what your needs are and what the application is when you choose hose size. If you are wanting to clean off the pool deck as quickly as possible and you don't mind lugging a very heavy hose…use 5/8. If you want a multi-purpose hose that is very lightweight and easy to use, can also clean, water and fill things up relatively quickly, our slim hose does an amazing job.. The other thing to keep in mind is flow rates over distance. Our next text will cover just that. We will do a test with 100 ft of hose and we will provide those results when we have them completed. Our experience tells us that we will lose about 10-15% water flow at that 100 ft distance but our testing will provide actual results for you. The other factors that influence water flow are hose attachements. Nozzles? Wands? Twist nozzles? Fire Hose style? Etc. Some restrict flow even further, some do not. We will test those as well using both diameters of hose and will report those results as well. Please keep checking back for more test results from the Labratory. AKA...Our Driveway. Bayer MaterialScience is one of the largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics in the world. The thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) Water Right uses bridge the gap between rubber and plastics. The materials Water Right uses comes in grades that go from very soft and flexible to very rigid. Depending on the product Water Right is developing, their engineers put a selection of materials through rigorous testing before deciding which polyurethane is best equipped to become the perfect polyurethane garden hose. They do not use off-spec material to lower their costs. They do not use contaminated regrind to produce inferior grade products. They use only top grade USA made materials that are 100% virgin grade. Nothing less. To learn which Texin TPU resins are listed to NSF/ANSI Standard 61 Drinking Water System Components - Health Effects, click here (link to NSF Web Site). |
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