will frost damage rubber garden hose?

hello, could you please tell me if leaving my garden hose out all winter would damage it.
thankyou.

 

Damage it/reduce it's lifespan certainly. To what extent depends on how it's used during the winter. Mine certainly lost it's anti kink properties

 

thanks, best drag it in to the shed then. frost forcast for tonight. roll on spring.

 

"anti-kink?"

"frost resistant?"


Just "sales talk."

 

I think if you drain it down so there is no water in it there is not much that can happen to it.

I'm thinking of buying a new hose for next year as my 15yr old one is now starting to spout holes due to the use of these modern spray nozzles that allow you to completely stop the water.

Puts mains pressure directly on the pipe, and an old one shows the strain.

 

Hi Crocus. I don't think that the cold itself will harm the hose. But, as Pete says, what could damage do the damage is if you leave water in it, which freezes and splits it. I have a buried one and just blow all the water out of it.

If the temperature were to get extremely cold a plastic hose will get more brittle and could crack it you try to bend it too much. Do you remember the demonstration at school of putting a rubber hose in liquid nitrogen and then hitting it on the ground - where it shattered.

Apparently, in northern Russia, temperatures in winter can get down to -50C, and it is unwise to hit a rock with your car tyres as they too can shatter. :D

 

As long as your hose is "open-ended" any ice formed should not affect it. The water will expand before it freezes and as long as it has room to move it should be OK.
In the cold weather I turn off the water that supplies my three outdoor water systems from inside the house. I then turn on all the outside taps, never had a problem with bursts in the copper pipe sections.