How to Repair Drip Irrigation Tubing

Drip irrigation tubing is tough stuff and tin withstand a lot of abuse (e.grand., being walked on, existence left in the common cold or heat), simply information technology isn't impenetrable. So knowing how to repair a bad section of tubing comes in handy the next time:

  • An errant shovel grazes information technology while doing some DIY backyard piece of work.
  • Man'southward (and adult female'south) best friend uses it as a chew toy.
  • The neighbour kid (whom you hired to mow your lawn for $v) mows the tubing too.
  • Burrowing rodents decide that the buried tubing is a great identify to become some h2o.
  • You idea you had all the water out before the freezing atmospheric condition striking.

The list could proceed and on, but accidents exercise happen, and luckily tubing repair is pretty easy. One note here is that repairing tubing is much easier if it is above ground. A lot of people like to bury baste irrigation tubing (which doesn't alter the integrity of the tubing), merely nosotros practise caution nearly burrowing rodents and how they accept a knack for finding buried drip irrigation tubing. Spotting and repairing a bad spot in buried tubing is more hard.

Once the Bad Spot is Located, You will Need iii Things:

  • A tubing cutting tool or sharp household pair of scissors
  • A coupler fitting (all fittings barbed, pinch & perma-loc volition work)
  • A department of like tubing (if the bad spot in the tubing is longer than two inches)

If the Bad Spot is 2 inches or Less:

Starting time by cutting out the bad spot in the tubing. Take care to make even, clean ends in the good sides of the tubing. Next, push ane side of the adept tubing onto the coupler. Once secure, push the other side of adept tubing onto the remaining open up side of the coupler. That's it; the tubing is repaired.  Bank check out our video on repairing tubing. (Annotation: It's not the greatest product, but information technology gets the point beyond :)


For Tubing with Bad Spot Over 2 Inches:

You volition need the three materials listed higher up, simply yous'll demand two couplers instead of i, as yous volition be splicing in a department of tubing instead of connecting the two pieces. Again, beginning by cutting out the bad section of tubing. Then cutting a length of extra tubing that will match what you lot cutting out minus the extra length of the exposed part of the couplers. Next, apply the couplers to join the sections of tubing together. Voila! Repaired tubing.