Hydrant hook up

@AquaTeamPowerWash here ya go. I don’t want to steal @Innocentbystander’s thunder, but there are a ton of videos available. Figured I’d save him some time.

It’s pretty easy too. It’ll take all of 3 minutes to hook up and be ready to roll.

Hopefully those that have used hydrants will drop some experience here too.

For example, every hydrant we hooked up to the water was red for a solid half hour or more before it started to clear up even after flushing it onto the street for a couple minutes on full blast. I use a double filter so we ran it that way and had no problem.

The water district told me to pick up a wrench and one of these fittings because some came ready for a garden hose and some needed this and it was a crapshoot. We got lucky with one that was ready to roll.

They gave us a jack stand to support it with and the last one they didn’t. The jack stand was too small for one of the hydrants so I’ll start carrying a large one.

Other than that, from my experience only using hydrants twice ever, it’s pretty easy. You’ll pay a few hundred dollar deposit. The most recent water district charged a $5 daily rental fee and will refund the deposit minus any water used and daily fee or I’ll get a bill for a few dollars for water.


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Thanks for this man much appreciated Ill have to buy these and give it a try.

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Update. The meter deposit was $300.

It was $5/day fee. 8x$5=$40

It was 8 days instead of 5 because after the first 7 buildings the residents told me they pay for their water and never even knew we were going to be there. The project got shuffled on the calendar to correct. Only used the hydrant for 20 buildings for around 670 gallons of water.

After the fee was deducted and water usage paid for the refund was $125.

So water cost was $135. Dirt cheap on a 5 figure job.

Don’t be afraid to use hydrants.

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Hey Squid, Do you use the garden hose meter or the fire hose meter?

@squidskc maybe you can make a video of how you hook up your rig to the hydrant. I am sure i’m not the only one who would love a video on that. look at me making work for you to, so rude of me lol.

Can i use this to rinse?

:stuck_out_tongue:

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You can put an adapter on it and use regular old hose IF the meter has a ball valve on it to choke the flow. You can’t choke it at the hydrant as I learned.

You can get decommissioned fire hose too if you want and install a fitting on your tank if you want more flow, but I’d still recommend choking it with a ball valve of some kind so you don’t turn your tank into a bomb. @Innocentbystander would definitely get a text from me if I had this question so I’ll bug him here to see what he says.

No worries. There’s really no need to make a video though. I just hook up to the meter just like I hook up to a house. :slight_smile:

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There’s a discussion somewhere about folks using this to rinse flatwork at max speed. As far as houses, you’re on your own. Report back. :slight_smile:

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@squidskc hey man thanks for all this info… I have never hooked up to a hydrant yet, or wash apartments yet hopefully thr near future i can

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