welcome back to steve rob reviews today is going to be a real interesting project for all of you
out there who want to make yourself one of these items and it's to me it's very inexpensive because
over the long term it's something that you could make customized to yourself this watering wand
is i would say quite unique you're not going to be able to go to the store and buy one of these
but you can custom make it to yourself the whole reason behind this is well i'm going to show you
actually watering some flowers and the difference between watering flowers correctly or watering
your vegetables correctly and not because most people you know what they do they put a sprinkler
out they water their whole what whatever size garden they have or flower bed or whatever
and guess what you got a whole flowerbed full of weeds in a matter of minutes right well not
quite minutes but real close to it so i'm going to show you how to make one of these watering wands
very easy you need some kind of well plumbing tools but you know you can
more likely borrow plumbing tools from your friends everybody you know has a little bit of
ingenuity to be able to make something and i think everybody could make one of these themselves
i make them and i just give them away to my friends and you know now just imagine the average
person standing there with a garden hose like this and they're just spraying everything right
and then you can buy these wands but they all come in like this length a custom length is not
something you can buy they're either like 36 24 28 i like to make for the person so that's what we're
going to do today i'm going to show you all the materials here and how easy it is to do yourself
first of all you have to get a roll of this pex plumbing now this pipe is half inch and i get it
for under thirty dollars for a hundred foot roll so you can imagine how many of these you could
make so if you know somebody that's handy at all and does a little bit of plumbing well guess what
they got lots of just just sitting around so you have to have some some pex plumbing fittings and
i was always going to use brass in the past but now i've had quite good success with the
using the plastic it's much cheaper and i've got a project coming up we're going to show you all this
and you know quite a unique project i got going on up my camp so i like to use these quick connectors
and a lot of people you don't need to use a quick connector and this is just one of these pecs
and it's all half inch so this is a half inch and this is just an old shower head
that i've taken off and of course we replace our shower heads every once in a while right
and of course it's got a swivel on the end here so you can swivel it
and you loosen this collar off and you can tighten it down to whatever position you want so this is
you know the most this is very cheap you can buy these online for like under 10 bucks anywhere
and when i insert this into here i like to use the uh the paste not the teflon tape i like to use the
paste better and here is your crimper i'm going to show you how this all works and all you have
to do is buy one of these like i went to my home depot and this was five dollars and fifty cents
you know and it's got the pecs fitting at one end and your garden hose fitting at the other end so
if you don't use these quick connectors yeah you can just screw on your garden hose no problem i'll
show you how that works and these are the tools you need and this is the pex crimper that i like
and just the pex pipe cutter so how do you know how long of a wand you actually need well i'm
going to show you how i measure every person that i give one of these to and let's see how i do it
so the best way to do this i found just getting a measuring tape one that you can extend that
doesn't you know like limp over or anything so what i do is i just i've made like a lot of these
so i mean i have a good idea how tall somebody is but you can just imagine the taller you are
the longer the wand has to be right because you're holding your arm out and you're watering so i mean
the whole idea behind this ergonomics the last thing you want to do is be all bent over
and a lot of people don't like being bent over when they're watering so what do they
do they get the garden hose up and they spray everything right like i said all you do is
you're spraying the earth you're not spraying you know your particular vegetables or your
you know your plants or your flowers you're spraying the top surface of your soil and
all you're doing is encouraging weeds and weeds and weeds so you just take your measuring tape
and you just put it out and you just hold it like where you would normally hold it
like for me i find 48 inches is fine for me but i know the person i'm giving this to well 36
is ideal for them because they're a lot shorter so the person is about five foot four
so you know 36 is just perfect for them so i've already measured them and they find 36 is fine so
we're going to make this one 36. now this is going to go together real fast i'll show you
how easy this is and these will last you well you can't buy anything that that even resembles this
so these will last you a long long long time compared to just trying to buy one that is
close to the you know the size that you actually need because measuring it is 10 times better than
just getting something that just doesn't fit right so let's get to it and i'll show you how easy it
is to put together so here's the uh the pex pipe cutter and you know this comes in a kit i bought
it in the kit a long time ago you just place it over top and cut it off and that's as easy as that
okay so here we are now i got you all zoomed in and here's one of them pex rings now these
are copper and you just slide it over top like this now you can fit your hose fitting in there
and i mean that's pretty easy right and one thing i like about pex is even after it's tightened up
you can move this so i mean it's not like you have to actually orient it in the right position
or anything so i got that on there now all you want to do is bring it back from about an eighth
of an inch from the end and then we just take our crimper you slide the crimper over top like this
crimp it down now you can't see me that but the the uh the top here i'll show you here
when i'm crimping it yeah you can see here i'm just crimping it like this so i mean
and it's fool proof so i mean this is the die here at the end for the uh half inch and the
next one down is for three quarters so we got that one on now i'll show you what it looks like
before we go any further well this is what we've got so far and you can see it's got a bend to it
and here's the end that i just finished putting on and the great thing about this pex is yeah
it comes in a roll and it's going to be in this shape but you know what it doesn't take much just
to kind of bend it back a bit it doesn't take long not much of an effort and uh you know you can just
how long did that take right and there it is right there so you could imagine
so now i have actually cut this a longer than 36. so now i can straighten it out
measure it to 36 cut off the end and that's what i'll do
then i'll bring you back and i'll show you how to put the uh the opposite end on well we've
got it all cut to length and all we have to do now slip on another ring like this
you slip the ring on to about an eighth before you get to the end of your hose and
this here you'll get a better idea of how this crimps on you just put this on here
and that's it now is that easy or what so what i'm going to do now is
you take your shower head and the shower head screws on right but like i said i like to use
this first so i don't have to show that right but what i'm going to do is i'm going to screw this on
and like i say the shower head itself the end if you adjust this collar
you can move this to any direction you want and then tighten up the collar and it will stay like
that now of course most people they're going to want it facing down towards the ground right
just like that so i mean that wasn't hard at all so at the other end what i'm going to do
is this is so easy i mean you just put one of these on and i've got one of these already on
the end of my hose and of course you've all seen these quick connectors and that is pretty much it
and i mean i think it's you know terrific just like that so i'll take you out and i'll show
you how i actually water my flowers so here's the front of my house here
and you can see how i planted them flowers now a lot of people what they seem to do is
they just have it like flat across what i find is if you put i make a ditch all the way around
so when you're only watering in there what happens is it forces the roots to go deeper for water over
time rather than just on the surface so when you get a dry spell well they all just don't dry
up and die on you right so that's what it looks like there in the front and you can see over here
what i've done as well between me and my neighbor the exact same thing right so i
mean i think that's the most efficient way and of course in between each one of them flowers
guess what you're not watering all the dirt and just having a big giant weed bed so i think that's
the best way to go right there so let's show this in action and i'll show you how easy it is so you
can stand up straight and do your watering so here we are here just turn the valve on
and that's it just fill it up i mean that's a lot better than being bent over now for
myself i'd have one a little bit longer so i'm i'm standing in this position and the watering
head would be down here i mean for me this is a no-brainer i'd rather do this all day long
than be all bent over watering your flowers well what do you think i mean it's as easy as that
and uh it's nice to have a shut off valve at the end here and all you have to do is
just match it up to the end they sell lots of these conversions you know where you can go
from depending on the end of your hose what you have my hose is different than others i've got
the quick connects on so i use the quick connects but on a regular hose yeah you'd have to get the
connector that just goes from this fitting to the male fitting on the end of a regular garden hose
it's just an investment of like well maybe three four dollars just for the one little fitting at
the end here so it'll fit on everybody's garden hose but i like using the quick connectors and
you can see at the end here how easy it is just to stand up you know in water and of course you can
shut it off very easily i just use my thumb off on you know very easy and it's easy on the back
i mean when you get to my age like i'm like 106 now so i mean you know you don't want to
be bending over all day long it's too hard on the back and maybe if you're not 106 maybe you could
you know have your back last longer by not bending over and crouching and
you know like i mean if you're six foot six you got to go with a five foot wand right
and you can just stand here nice and straight and water all day long
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