To perform any outdoor task from washing an automobile to watering a garden, the one essential, critical piece of equipment that’s required is a garden hose. In order to select the proper garden hose you may need for any specific chores around the home, you need to understand the different garden hose diameters and how they relate to the amount of water that may carried through them while in use. Water hoses are available in 1/2″, 3/8″, 5/8″, 3/4″ and one inch diameters, and are typically available in lengths of 25′, 50′, 75′ and 100 feet. The word diameter refers to the internal diameter (ID) of the water hose through which the water actually travels. The internal diameter of a garden hose, in conjunction with its total length should be of the utmost concern to any homeowner or gardener, because both of these factors ultimately determine just how much water is allowed to flow through the hose within one minute. To understand the affect the inside diameter of a hose combined with its length has on the amount of water that can actually flow through it in one minute, Dultmeier Sales displays a graphic chart to help a layman understand this basic water flow principal. The most popular garden hose available to consumers today has an internal diameter of 5/8 inch. If you had a hose with this internal diameter, and the length of the hose was 50 feet, then the water will flow through the hose at approximately thirteen feet per minute provided the water pressure through the lines remains constant. Were you to purchase a garden hose that had a 1/2 inch internal diameter, that’s just 1/8 of an inch narrower, and it were to have the same length of 50 feet, then the water will flow through it at just seven gallons per minute. That’s six gallons less, per minute, than the 5/8 inch internal diameter hose will allow. For another example, let’s assume for a moment that you had a garden hose in the same 50 foot length with an internal diameter of 3/4 inch. That’s just 1/8 of an inch more than the 5/8 inch internal diameter hose. The water would flow through the 3/4 inch hose at a higher rate of 20 gallons per minute due to the greater volume of water the hose can carry. So, with this final example it’s easy to understand how the internal hose diameter ultimately affects the approximate amount of water that can flow through any hose of any diameter. Through these examples you can see that there is a relationship between the internal diameter of a garden hose and the total length of the hose itself. Were you to connect two hoses of equal length together, the flow of water will actually decrease considerably due to the extended distance the water has to travel from the primary source of pressure at the faucet. With this knowledge in hand it should be relatively easy to select a proper garden hose for your specific usage requirements. By selecting a water hose of the appropriate internal diameter and length, you’ll be able to fulfill all of your watering needs with the appropriate amount of water flow to all of your connected devices. Category:Home › Other • Pomegranates: A newly discovered superfood • Where did the joke why did the chicken cross the road come from and why is it funny? • Can mothers diagnosed with bipolar disorder make good parents? • Spiritual evolution of human consciousness • Tips for getting a college basketball scholarship • Living with Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) • Caring for the caregiver • Technologys impact on society
