I have a 200 ft fixed position garden hose extension that got poked and sprung a couple leaks, but I can't shorten it with a repair kit, so I'm looking for some kind of miracle utility repair tape that would seal some small punctures in the hose to prevent it from spewing water where it doesn't need to go. Regular duct tape won't cut it.

Is there anything like that I can find at my Walmart or hardware store ? Or some Television miracle tape, or anything else I could use to seal those leaks ?

Maybe a bicycle tube repair kit to seal and duct tape to hold pressure?

Alternatively, the foil tape for duct work is pretty neat stuff.

Self-fusing (sealing) Silicone tape might be able to do the job.

Hmm. I don't think tire tube patch could work, which is vulcanized rubber chemistry sticking to vinyl garden hose. The HVAC tape you mentioned I think is for air handlers, probably not watertight nor strong enough. But thanks.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Self-fusing (sealing) Silicone tape might be able to do the job.

Sounds interesting, does it have a more generic trade name or something like that ? What trade uses that type of tape. I might get too many blank stares asking for self sealing silicone tape.

Buy more hose and replace the entire section that has the leaks. IME, there is no tape that will seal a water leak under pressure.

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Originally posted by wrightd:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Self-fusing (sealing) Silicone tape might be able to do the job.

Sounds interesting, does it have a more generic trade name or something like that ? What trade uses that type of tape. I might get too many blank stares asking for self sealing silicone tape.

Proxicast is one brand name; Rescue Tape is another.

Two hose clamps and one of these? Appropriate size and all...

Repair at the holes length shouldn't be impacted.

Flex Seal tape or Gorilla Tape (not the duct tape, they make a silicon/rubberized tape as well)

Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Ace...

If not, I guess it's time to get a new hose.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:

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Originally posted by wrightd:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Self-fusing (sealing) Silicone tape might be able to do the job.

Sounds interesting, does it have a more generic trade name or something like that ? What trade uses that type of tape. I might get too many blank stares asking for self sealing silicone tape.

Proxicast is one brand name; Rescue Tape is another.

That’s about the only “tape” that has a chance of working, I think.

For those that haven’t seen it, it’s not a normal adhesive tape at all. It’s a strip of silicone, and you stretch it quite a bit as you wrap it in multiple layers around something, then it all kind of melts together into one solid piece (the “self-fusing” part).

Note: many of them do not work AT ALL if you don’t stretch them enough as you layer wraps.

There are some self-fusing tapes sold in plumbing for leak fixing and others sold in electrical for totally encapsulating wire splices and stuff like that, and some are marketed for both purposes.

Flips is right. Go to a hardware store. They sell hose repair kits.

I’ve had good luck with FlexSeal tape. I’d try that first as it’s readily available and relatively inexpensive.

Silicone tape would work, I've used it on plumbing emergencies before. A pipe repair clamp would probably be a better idea than tape.
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I have had great experiences with Gear Aid’s Tenacious Tape. For a hose the area needs to be perfectly clean (wash with acetone or alcohol) and it’ll bond like nothing else. I have a hole in a down jacket. That hole happened in 2016. I sealed it with Tenacious Tape and it’s been washed at least 50 times. Tape is still holding, has been a perfect repair. I have fixed quite a few things with it.

I’ve only bought the “repair patches”. I haven’t used any of their other products, but I’ll swear by the repair patches.

I’ve always found it in the camping section at Walmart.

https://www.gearaid.com/collections/all

Looks like they also have some repair kits for water repairs too.

Self bonding silicone tape. I've fixed pipe with it.

Flex seal appears like it would work too.

You could also just sub in a new length of hose long enough to replace the beat up section. You would use the hose repair fitting, but use two sets rather than one and make a bypass length. You'd need a bit of donor hose, or a third set of fittings to take a piece out of another functioning hose.

For a temporary fix, gorilla tape does pretty well. Had one hose get “tired” and spring a leak (~95# at this location). Fixed with gorilla tape. Held fine, but after a couple of days the hose sprang another leak. Fixed that one with gorilla tape as well. When the hose sprang a third leak a few days later, tossed it and moved on.

Several good ideas above to seal the leak area.

If I did that, then I'd take a piece of good quality hose, maybe 3 or 4 inches long, slit it lenthwise, slip over the afflicted area, and use all the hose clamps I could to completely clamp down over it, each clamp side by side touching.
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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Buy more hose and replace the entire section that has the leaks. IME, there is no tape that will seal a water leak under pressure.

This. The flex seal/tape type products are useless for this application. There are brass in-line barbed connectors, used with clamps that shorten the hose very little, just cut the hose directly across the leak and insert. You don't usually need to patch in a length of new hose, but this can be done if circumstances require. I have also used PVC pipe of appropriate diameter to bridge flexible hose sections, but you really need to torque down the clamps to stop bypass leaks.

Of course, the right way to fix this is to replace the fixed-in-place flexible hose with plumbing designed for this purpose, e.g. iron pipe, or PVC. (Says the guy who permanently has a leaky vinyl hose stretched across his carport roof to water the garden.)

I have used Duct tape with good results. Most guys have it laying around somewhere.

Readily available, hw stores, auto parts store:


www.rescuetape.com/

i have used it on a kitchen sink hose, it lasted for months before i got around fixing the sink
and also repaired a hot cooling hose on my boat.

The boat being more important than the kitchen sink- I repaired that promptly!

Follow instructions, it works great!!