This seems to be the most suitable forum for my kind of enquiry, as Gardening does not seem to be appropriate.
I am hoping that some genius out there can help with a problem that has just arisen with a Hozelock fitting.
Fixed to the outside wall of our house is a Hozelock reel. This allows the hose, which is stored inside a plastic case screwed to the wall, to be pulled out to the required length. After the watering of the garden has been done, it retracts with a spring mechanism. The outside water tap, which supplies the hose has a Hozelock push-on connection between it and the hose, which hose, when connected, runs from the tap and into the plastic hose-reel casing. Attached to the end of the hose that is pulled out from the reel-casing is a “lance”, with a trigger to control the water supply to the garden. Seemple!
For many years, there never has been any difficulty with this set-up. However, this being the start of the gardening season, today, I turned on the stop-tap, inside the house, that allows the outside tap to be used. When turned on for a test, the outside tap worked just fine and did not leak — when it was turned off, not even a drip came out. It still does not leak.
HOWEVER, when I pushed the Hozelock connector (on the hose) back onto the outside tap, then turned the tap on, water started leaking (in enough measure to be a nuisance and to cause a pool to form) from the top of the Hozelock connector. It was as if the connector was blocked. Yet, it was not blocked, because when the trigger of the “lance” was pressed, it sprayed water onto the garden, just as it ought to do. The trouble is that it is not possible to turn the outside tap on and use the hose, without an expanding pool of water forming underneath the tap/hose connector.
I examined the connector carefully, and there was nothing wrong with it that I could see (no blockage, and everything seems fine). When it is pushed onto its tallying half, on the end of the tap, it goes “ker-chunk” and plainly, it is seated correctly. I even swapped this connector for a similar one (made by Hozelock), but this made no difference — the leakage continued as before.
Logic would seem to suggest that there is a blockage somewhere, but that logic seems to be defeated by the fact that the lance and hose work perfectly.
Can anyone offer any helpful comment on this mystery?
L.L.
I am hoping that some genius out there can help with a problem that has just arisen with a Hozelock fitting.
Fixed to the outside wall of our house is a Hozelock reel. This allows the hose, which is stored inside a plastic case screwed to the wall, to be pulled out to the required length. After the watering of the garden has been done, it retracts with a spring mechanism. The outside water tap, which supplies the hose has a Hozelock push-on connection between it and the hose, which hose, when connected, runs from the tap and into the plastic hose-reel casing. Attached to the end of the hose that is pulled out from the reel-casing is a “lance”, with a trigger to control the water supply to the garden. Seemple!
For many years, there never has been any difficulty with this set-up. However, this being the start of the gardening season, today, I turned on the stop-tap, inside the house, that allows the outside tap to be used. When turned on for a test, the outside tap worked just fine and did not leak — when it was turned off, not even a drip came out. It still does not leak.
HOWEVER, when I pushed the Hozelock connector (on the hose) back onto the outside tap, then turned the tap on, water started leaking (in enough measure to be a nuisance and to cause a pool to form) from the top of the Hozelock connector. It was as if the connector was blocked. Yet, it was not blocked, because when the trigger of the “lance” was pressed, it sprayed water onto the garden, just as it ought to do. The trouble is that it is not possible to turn the outside tap on and use the hose, without an expanding pool of water forming underneath the tap/hose connector.
I examined the connector carefully, and there was nothing wrong with it that I could see (no blockage, and everything seems fine). When it is pushed onto its tallying half, on the end of the tap, it goes “ker-chunk” and plainly, it is seated correctly. I even swapped this connector for a similar one (made by Hozelock), but this made no difference — the leakage continued as before.
Logic would seem to suggest that there is a blockage somewhere, but that logic seems to be defeated by the fact that the lance and hose work perfectly.
Can anyone offer any helpful comment on this mystery?
L.L.
