Underground Garden Hose?

Question

For a part of a diy home project me and my mates need to bury a length of standard garden hose underground permanently.
My question is will the hose biodegrade? if so.. is there a specific type of hose that wouldn't biodegrade that i could use?


Thank you in advance

Answer 1

You can just bury a length of PVC or black plastic pipe, as it is much less expensive than a garden hose. By looking around any hardware store, you can find fittings to attach it to the outlet of a standard faucet. My favorite way is to put in a 2 way off the faucet,
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and set up a short section of hose with 2 female fittings. On the PVC pipe, you put a pipe to hose adapter.

Answer 2

Being in the position of house poor and newborn twins to take care of, my husband did the same thing you are considering. We used the same black hose you would use for installing a regular sprinkling but when you diy all you need is the connection to the water. My hubby is not handy but this is a job he completed in just a few hours. We lived in that house 7 years before moving on and no leaks or problems or winterizing and we live in Michigan.

Answer 3

Easier to bury PVC or black plastic pipe and add a male hose adapter on the ends. I did this and used a washing machine hose (two female hose fittings) so I could disconnect it (from the outside hosebibb) in winter and blow it out to prevent freezing.

Answer 4

You could try using black pipe. It's a kind of flexible hose. It's great for going around things like trees and shrubs because you don't need fittings like you would with rigid pipe. It also works well in cold climates, but needs to be buried at least 18 inches deep to avoid freezing.

Answer 5

Have you ever heard the saying " anything worth doing is worth doing right" there is a reason they have building codes and that is so you don't kill yourself or someone else, the codes are minimums so you should at least meet those standards. If your too lazy to do it right then buy the battery operated lights for the shed or don't build it because it will be a hazard for anyone that may be so unlucky as to buy your house after you leave. I've had to come in behind too many hacks that tried to short cut when it is just as easy to do it right. Get a permit so you at least have someone to check your work so you don't end up electrocuting your dog.

Answer 6

every thing biodegrades as time goes on, but i put a hose under ground about 7 years ago, and it is still working

Answer 7

Well, mate, if it were me, I'd transition the buried section to a PVC schedule 40 piece of pipe. Fittings are widely available, unless you're in the Outback? (Or, perhaps you aren't in Australia at all - in that case, my apologies!)

If you can't find the necessary fittings, e-mail this Yank with your needs - I'll try to ship it to you!

Answer 8

You can get poly tubing which is used for drip irrigation. It is meant to be buried. Where you need it to re-surface you can put a MHT (Male hose thread) end on it to re-attach to the hose.

Answer 9

That is what PVC pipe is used for. The same stuff that sprinkler systems are built with.

Answer 10

it takes about 1000 yrs for plastic to decompose. pcv pipe works really well.