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Quick Tip: How To Keep Your X-Jet Suction Hose Secure In A 25L Drum

A Quick Fix for Keeping Your X-Jet Hose in Place

While using Sodium Hypochlorite on a number of pressure washing jobs, I kept running into the same annoying issue, the hose from my X-Jet wouldn’t stay inside the 25L storage drum.

It might sound like a small problem and very specific, but when you’re in the middle of treating surfaces like block paving, pattern imprinted concrete, or anything else where you use an X-jet in this way, it quickly becomes a bit of a pain.

For anyone not familiar, the X-Jet has a hose that connects to the trigger and draws the chemical solution through it at a set ratio, mixing it with water from your high pressure hose. When that hose keeps popping out of the drum, it interrupts your flow, slows the job down, and can waste product if you’re not paying attention.

In this short article, I’ll show you a cheap, fast, and easy tip to stop this from happening, and keep your workflow smooth and hassle-free.


A Quick Fix for Keeping Your X-Jet Hose in Place

40mm Plastic Pipe: A Simple Fix That Works

To avoid the hassle of my X-Jet hose popping out of the drum, I started using a piece of 40mm plastic tubing that I found down the side of the garage. I cut it to around 600mm in length and dropped it into the 25L container.


The Benefits

Using this simple bit of pipe has solved the problem and brought a couple of added benefits too:

  1. Keeps the hose in place
    The hose, with the filter on the end, now sits securely at the bottom of the drum. No more popping out while you’re in the middle of applying solution.
  • Better consistency
    With the hose staying fully submerged, you get a more consistent draw with things like Sodium Hypochlorite through the X-Jet, which leads to more even results across the surface.
  • More usable hose length
    Because I no longer need to feed loads of extra hose into the drum just to weigh it down and keep it in there, I now have more hose length to work with when moving around on jobs.

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The Drawbacks

Normally, I like to point out at least one or two downsides to anything I recommend, becuase usually there is at least some kind of drawback, but in this case, there really aren’t any.

If you don’t already have a spare bit of plastic tubing or pipe lying around, then buying a 1 metre length might cost you a few quid. But honestly, the benefits far outweigh the cost, and it’s made such a difference to how I work with the X-Jet that I’d say it’s a must-have.

Simple, cheap, and saves you the hassle, can’t go wrong.

All I’ll say is make sure to measure the size of the filter on the end of your X-Jet hose before you go out and buy any tubing. That way, you’ll know exactly what diameter pipe you’ll need to fit it properly.

Luckily for me, the 40mm tubing I had lying around fits perfectly, and it’s saved me from having to coil loads of hose inside the barrel just to keep it submerged. I think the max diameter of tubing you could have to fit in the types of drums shown above is about 50mm, so keep that in mind and measure up before hand.

It’s a small tweak, but it makes a big difference.

ScrewFix 40mm Pipe £4.49 for 3m


Exterior Cleaning, England, South Yorkshire UK

 

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