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Any reason why I should not buy toilet hose at £4-6 a metre instead of the Tek-Tanks stuff at just under £12?
 
mick said:
Any reason why I should not buy toilet hose at £4-6 a metre instead of the Tek-Tanks stuff at just under £12?
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Depends entirely on the quality of the £4 to £6 stuff, the stuff that Tek Tanks sell is very high quality, if you have any runs (no pun intended) to speak of then poor quality PVC stuff can start to smell really badly in a relatively short time due to standing efluent.
 
Our toilet was equipped with spiral wound, probably cheap hose. It performed reasonably well for many years during fairly heavy leisure use but became smelly once it was used full time. We replaced it with expensive butyl hose with wire reinforcement, bought in La Rochelle. Within a few years it was very smelly, the contents evidently leaking through the inner lining, corroding the wire and then dripping out of the cut ends. We replaced it with Tek-tanks stuff, which appears to be identical to the Lee Sanitation version. As well as being far easier to fit than the wire reinforced stuff it has not smelt at all in the five or six years since.
 
£12 per metre sounds cheap to me :)

I used ASAP's sooper-dooper butyl stuff at £22 per meter (fortunately I only had a very short run to do) based on jfm's recommendation. Despite the price, I'd use it again - it seems convincingly smell-proof and it's also a joy to work with as it's really flexible.

Pete
 
My hoses are 14 years old, they are a light brown colour. You would think they are smelly, but they are not.

However, I recently cut one in half to install a vented loop; once I scraped off the 3mm layer of crud, they were shiny white inside. I later started some tests on the removed crud, more in another thread when complete.

The only smell I get in my heads is from the inlet pipe. A Milton tablet in the filter sorts that out in minutes.
 
The problem I have had with the really heavy duty stuff is working with it- wont bend, won't really stretch to o over fittings. It's like wrestling a python. Think I would rather go with lighter gauge stuff and replace regularly. Pertinent because. A about to do the job myself (old out, awaiting fitting the new)
 
I put in some cheap hose (Aquafax bilge green hose) when I had a blockage and needed to replace there and then using spares I had on the boat. I didn't bother to change with the proper stuff. Has worked for 3 years, no smell. I do flush regularly with fresh though, and always when I leave the boat.
 
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