I know some here have used air hose instead of the WFP tubing sold here. Costco has a very nice 50’ air hose with male/female fittings for $20 (in Canada). Can anyone who has experience using air hose for WFP work tell me if the fittings/connections leak at all?
I would like to buy three and link them all together for 150’ of hose, but am concerned they may leak at the connection. I would apply plumbers tape to the connections. i guess I could always return them if there is a problem.
Thanks
I plan on using hose that I’ve used for years with air tools at 120 lbs pressure. The fittings I think will need to be brass or they will rust, and I don’t think you will need plumbers tape.
Just my 2 cents.
I use 300’ of 1/4" polyurethane air hose from HomeDepot.com. I’ve experienced some pinholes in the hose, but I think that may have been due to letting it freeze, or running it over with a vehicle on blacktop. The fittings are all brass, and they have held up well- no leaking.
I would suggest staying away from PVC hose. It has terrible memory (it wants to coil up on you all the time), and it gets real stiff in cold weather. The Polyurethane has been a nice mix of flexibility and lightness, it stays flexible down to pretty much any temp. Rubber is durable but heavy to pull around all day. Flexzilla or a similar product would probably be nicest if you want to avoid kinks all together, but its usually the most expensive.
as far as linking hoses- try to find longer lengths of hoses. The less connections, the less places for error and back-pressure (every fitting will constrict the flow a bit). If you go with 2 100’ lengths, you can add another 100’ down the road. more than 3 sections of hose, and I think you might start experiencing pressure loss from all those fittings.
I have added some of my own fittings to my Pure Water system and simply used tiny hose clamps to secure them, works like a charm.
I stopped using the heavy breaded hose for WFP. No need to use it if you keep your system pressure low enough. 5/16 hose is all you need. We have 4 reels with 100’ on each and we can Y out and run two poles off my trailer with no problem. The heavy hose I used for a couple years off of a Cox real. Last year or so I came to realize it was much more efficient to go completely to 5/16. Quick connects in each one makes connecting and reconnecting a breeze.
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I have some air hose that i use when i need extra hose. Works fine.
do you have a pic of your set-up?
I use air hose as well and bought most everything from Amazon and another source. The hose is called Flexilla. I use the 1/4 size. The Flexilla is a fire engine green if you know what that looks like. You can get 25, 50, 100 or mass roll lengths to suit your needs. I personally have 3- 100 ft per truck and we connect up as needed. I tried a portable hose reel but it was a pain to roll up for me at 6"3" so I just hand loop each hose and secure then with velcro straps. You can get the fittings in your choice of colors (red, green, blue and one more) My set up is all quick connect with no leaks at all. I connect my 5/16 hoe from aqua-dapter right into the Flexilla with quick connects also.
Yeah I’ll shoot a pic in a little while and post it. It’s not that the air hose doesn’t work but for wfp work you don’t need anything that heavy IMO. If I was pressure washing, well then yes absolutely.
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Is that one section of 300’ or a couple sections making it 300’?
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We use 300’ ft 1/4 inch from HD too. Its blue. Never kinks and durable. It is 3 100’ sections per set up.
Yep, 3 sections. Would love to find a continuous hose for a reasonable price. Then I’d probably have 350’ just for good measure 
3/8" OD rubber air hose has held up well. We’re pretty tuff on stuff, but one continuous 300’ real has lasted 5 years, and we had 100’ lengths as needed. As stated, it behaves well in cold weather, can be run over with no effect, and drags over multiple sharp roof edges with no trouble. It is a bit heavy, especially at 500’, but it works for us.
I got 100’ of tubing used in food service that is very tough and has worked great for me to start running a dual pole set-up. It is very similar to Aquadapter hose but wayyyy cheaper.
He already posted the pics of his set up
I need some help finding quick connect fittings.
My air hose is 1/4 thick, I have the brass fittings that came with the hose to connect each 50’ section of hose to one another but am finding it hard to find fittings to connect to my DI tank which has a garden hose size male end and WFP which came with a male quick connect end but is too large to fit the coupler that came with the 1/4 air hose.
Wow that’s cool with the small reels, I love it!
