Garden Hose fitting

[cusccrstud21]

Hey guys. I was just pondering on how to make water changes faster for myself (instead of having to carry buckets of water out of the basement to dump out outside and without buying a pump or something else because my budget is low right now. I was just at Ace Hardware and they had hoses laying in the first aisle. It got me to thinking that if somehow I could get my gravel vac hose somehow spliced into the garden hose then i could run that hose into my sump pump while doing water changes and cut out the trips with buckets and save those for putting the water back in....lol. They had a 50' hose for 11.49 or they also have the polyethelene tubing at $0.49-$0.79 per foot. How would you all go about joining these two different tubes and how well do you think this would work?

Thanks for reading my rambling!

 

[Rivermud]

Well, it's not all the hard, they have adapters you can buy that are already threaded as male ends for garden hose. If your tubing is roughly 5/8's (common size for gravel vacs) then you simply need to go to home depot/lowes/plumbing center and buy the adapter, shove it in your hose, and screw the garden hose to it.

 

[KaiserSousay]

This is all you would need, if just draining for a water change..cut the open pipe to the depth in the tank, of the water you want to remove..run the hose to your drain.

 

[Rivermud]

That addresses water changes, but his question was specifically adapting his gravel cleaner to the hose to do water changes and cleaning at the same time. Otherwise I would have posted an image of my overflow system with the adapter for the garden hose built in.

 

[KaiserSousay]

I could get my gravel vac hose somehow spliced into the garden hose then i could run that hose into my sump pump while doing water changes and cut out the trips with buckets and save those for putting the water back in

but his question was specifically adapting his gravel cleaner to the hose to do water changes and cleaning at the same time

I`m getting confused

 

[flstffxe]

As mentioned adapters are available at most hardware stores. Push the gravel-vac hose over the barbs and screw the threaded end on to the garden hose. http://www.westmarine.com/1/1/4996-brass-female-garden-hose-3-4-1-2-barb-from-seafit-plugs.html

Or use a barb to barb type fitting to join the gravel-vac to the polyethylene tubing.

 

[Rivermud]

I`m getting confused

heh, maybe so am i.. the question doesn't seem clear.. shrug.. either way, your picture and the description should get the idea acrossed.. lol

 

[cusccrstud21]

LOL, like i mentioned, thank you for reading my rambling. I'm specifically looking for how to adapt the end of my gravel vac hose to a garden hose so the water will flow out the garden hose into the drain while i'm gravel vaccing. I do water changes while I'm gravel vaccing.....but these responses should get me going. I really appreciate the answers!!

 

[KaiserSousay]

while i'm gravel vaccing

OK..gotcha!
Cut off an inch of your vac hose, head off to HD/Lowes, check out the drip watering section, test fit the hose barbs..they have barbs with pipe threaded ends(1/2"&3/4"npt),look for the npt to garden hose adapters(many styles, male&female)...if you can`t find them(last resort for me;-])ask.

 

[cusccrstud21]

OK..gotcha!
Cut off an inch of your vac hose, head off to HD/Lowes, check out the drip watering section, test fit the hose barbs..they have barbs with pipe threaded ends(1/2"&3/4"npt),look for the npt to garden hose adapters(many styles, male&female)...if you can`t find them(last resort for me;-])ask.

Awesome! thanks for this! appreciate all the help guys!