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Trumbull, CT 06611, USA

I just laid down 300 feet of soaker hose in my 1200 square foot patch. How can I increase the water pressure. Right now, the water is only making it to half of the hoses. The patch is 50 feet from the house. Thanks.....Ray

5/23/2004 5:39:37 PM

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Ray,

I found that with more than two in series & the third fails to work entirely. So rather than take chances, I put splitters between them all. Each one now has it's own supply line to avoid "issues".

Have you covered the plants? We're in for weather!

5/23/2004 6:01:27 PM

Trumbull, CT 06611, USA

So you would run all of them from a splitter that is attached to the main hose. Basically all 3 or 4 soaker hoses attached to the main by a splitter

5/23/2004 7:34:29 PM

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Not exactly. I got nervous about connecting even 2 hoses in a series after observing a reduction in output in the second hose & no output at all from a third. In their defense, the manufacturer warned of this on the package.

So the patch has one hose dedicated to each plant. Then a manifold feeds each "soaker zone". Each soaker zone is further split so that each soaker has it's own individual feeder hose.

I think I've become Terry's biggest hose customer. LOL

5/23/2004 9:03:14 PM

Midway City, California

Just my 2 cents. Water one zone at a time and have less than 100 foot of hose to a zone. Also it will make a difference depending if you have 1/2 inch or 5/8 inch hose.
Water

5/23/2004 11:00:42 PM

Western Pa.

Haven't tried it yet, but I purchased a drill driven pump that you can put "inline" to boost water distribution. (Around $14) I will use this too boost gravity pressure if necessary.

5/24/2004 9:24:09 AM

White Plains, NY

Ray do you have a well or public water?

5/24/2004 1:11:22 PM

Trumbull, CT 06611, USA

Public Water

5/24/2004 9:29:22 PM

White Plains, NY

Ray,

I would think you would have sufficient pressure, is the valve opened fully from your incoming service?
On my soaker hose(s) I increased the hole in the restricter washer. That increased the pressure. My hose going out from the house is a 3/4" This all worked fine for me until the soaker hose became plugged from the iron in my well water. I now use a filter on my soaker hose water.

5/25/2004 11:09:12 AM

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Ray,

Ours have a yellow rubber plastic flow restiction device mounted in the input end where it screws onto the hose-bib. I thought about removing this to at the point where the second has attaches to the first. But I didn't. You might want to try that.

5/25/2004 1:29:01 PM