Hose Connector - not sure what to look for

Marakith

Marakith

Marakith

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Hello! Just bought a spray irrigation kit to install discretely on my sedum roof so I can water it when there's not much rain. There are no instructions with it, but it seems to be push fit. It comes with a 20m hose. What I want to do it run spare standard garden hose up to the roof, then connect it to the irrigation kit. The kit comes with this connector that push fits to the hose and it meant to screw onto a tap. I'd rather run my own hose up there and connect it somehow. The problem is that I don't know what I need to search for to connect a hose to this instead of a tap.

Even so - would I be better running a thin tube up to the roof or the full sized hose and then connecting to the irrigation system? I ask because I wonder if the water pressure would work out better with one as opposed to the other.

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Marakith said:
Hello! Just bought a spray irrigation kit to install discretely on my sedum roof so I can water it when there's not much rain. There are no instructions with it, but it seems to be push fit. It comes with a 20m hose. What I want to do it run spare standard garden hose up to the roof, then connect it to the irrigation kit. The kit comes with this connector that push fits to the hose and it meant to screw onto a tap. I'd rather run my own hose up there and connect it somehow. The problem is that I don't know what I need to search for to connect a hose to this instead of a tap.

Even so - would I be better running a thin tube up to the roof or the full sized hose and then connecting to the irrigation system? I ask because I wonder if the water pressure would work out better with one as opposed to the other.

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And in response to your question about pressure, no it makes no difference. Flow rate is affected by the bore of the pipe, not pressure. So running it on a larger bore pipe up to your roof to then run it through a smaller hose won’t be any different to running through a smaller hose the whole way.

It would be beneficial if you wanted to tee off the big hose and run 2 smaller lines (because the larger hose has more capacity to supply sufficient flow). But I’m assuming you don’t want to do that.
 
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Thank you both!

Yes I think I'll need 2 smaller lines (maybe 3 to completely cover the roof) so will look at options for taking the big hose up there and installing a tee.
 
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