Flexible Hose | 1" | Stainless Steel | Pressure Tank

A 1-inch flexible stainless steel hose for connecting pressure tanks to the surrounding plumbing - engineered specifically for the bend stress, vibration, and pressure cycling that rigid pipe connections handle poorly in pump-and-tank installations.

Why Flexible Connections at Pressure Tank Outlets

A pressure tank's connection point experiences three stresses that rigid pipe alone struggles with:

• Vibration from the pump cycling on and off, especially during startup transients
• Pressure cycling as the bladder fills, empties, and refills
• Thermal expansion and contraction with hot/cold cycles in heated installations

Rigid pipe transfers all of this stress directly into the tank's threaded port, leading over time to either pipe-side cracking or tank-port leakage. A flexible stainless steel hose absorbs the movement, decoupling the tank port from the rigid plumbing run.

This is the standard installation method on pressure tank inlets - almost every professional pump installer specifies a flexible hose at this connection.

Specifications

• Material: stainless steel (corrugated outer braid over the inner liner)
• Length: 1 metre
• Connection thread: 1-inch
• Internal diameter: 1/2 inch
• Maximum working pressure: 8 bar / 8 kg
• Temperature range: -10°C to 90°C

The stainless steel braid is corrosion-resistant for long-term operation in wet areas - outdoor pump installations, garage plant rooms, and exposed mountings won't develop the rust marks that mark out lesser flexible connectors.

Important Sizing Note

The hose's 1-inch threaded connection mates to the standard 1-inch ports on Bestank-Solar and similar pressure tanks. The 1/2-inch internal diameter sets the flow restriction - for low-to-moderate flow installations (typical residential pressure pumps at 20-40 L/min), this is well within the hose's flow capacity. For very high-flow installations beyond 60 L/min, factor in the inner-diameter restriction when sizing.

Where This Hose Fits

• Bestank-Solar pressure tank installations (12L, 19L, 50L, 100L)
• Solar hot water expansion tanks with 1-inch connections
• Pressure pump installations with bladder tanks on the discharge side
• Replacement of an aged or corroded flexible connector
• Vibration-isolation upgrades on existing installations with rigid connections leaking at the tank port