The one number nobody else publishes
Maximum 1 bar, in order to achieve even watering.
No other product on this shelf states a maximum pressure. One states an
operating range of 3 to 6 bar, and another states 4 bar.
The reasoning, which this listing also gives in effect, is worth setting out
because it is the whole physics of a soaker hose.
A porous hose leaks along its entire length. Water leaves fastest where the
pressure inside is highest, and the pressure inside is highest at the tap.
Run one at mains pressure and the first five metres pour while the last ten
barely damp the soil. You then leave it on longer to fix the far end, and
drown everything near the tap.
Run it at a fraction of a bar and the pressure along the length is far more
even, so the water going out is too.
That is why this listing caps itself at 1 bar, and it is the most useful
sentence on this shelf.
6 to 8 litres per metre per hour, at 0.6 bar
Published properly: a rate, a unit that includes length and time, and the
pressure it applies at.
And then the shelf refuses to agree with itself.
Converted to the same unit, the other soakers here give about 20 to 39
L/m/h at 3 to 6 bar and about 46 to 76 L/m/h at 0.7 bar.
Two recycled-rubber soaker hoses, at 0.6 and 0.7 bar — a difference of a tenth
of a bar — publishing outputs that differ by roughly eight times.
Different porosities would do that. So would different measurement methods. So
would one of the figures being wrong.
Nothing on either listing says which, and this page states both rather than
choosing. What it does say is that anybody sizing a system from these numbers
should use the manufacturer’s own figure for the hose they bought, and not
assume it transfers.
What 6 to 8 litres per metre per hour means in a garden
On a 50 metre run, 300 to 400 litres an hour.
Slow, steady, and unmistakably the profile these products are supposed to have:
you turn it on and leave it, and the water goes in at a rate the soil can
absorb rather than running off.
That is the case for the low-pressure approach, made in litres.
The pressureless version, mentioned honestly
The listing says: this hose needs a low water pressure to work satisfactorily
over time; if you want to water from a water container without pressure, look
at our pressureless offers.
A manufacturer pointing a customer at a different product of its own, because
this one will not do what they need, is unusual enough to note.
It also tells you something real: a soaker fed from a water butt by gravity has
perhaps 0.1 bar at the bottom of the tank, and that is a genuinely different
hose. Buying this one for a butt would be a disappointment, and the listing
says so before the purchase rather than after.
100 % recycled, and winter-proof
Both stated.
Recycled is how these hoses are made rather than a claim added later:
ground rubber crumb, bound and extruded, with the gaps between the particles
forming the pores. Three of the five soakers here say so.
Winter-proof means the rubber survives frost without going brittle, which
is a real property and a real risk for rubber crumb.
It does not mean water may be left in it. Water expands when it freezes and
splits any hose ever made, and a buried soaker full of ice is a spring
excavation. Draining before winter applies here as everywhere on this shelf.
Laying it under the surface
The listing is unusually firm: wherever it is possible at all, laying the hose
underground or covering it is always preferable to laying it purely on the
surface.
That is correct, and the reasons stack up. Buried, it delivers at root depth,
loses nothing to evaporation, is out of the UV that ages it, and is not tripped
over or cut by a spade.
The listing also ties its 70 % saving figure specifically to underground
laying, which is more precise than the same claim on the other four listings
here — all of which print a percentage with no baseline at all.
Availability
From 40 € to 53 €, that being the spread across the German and French Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Listed and unsold: the Italian Amazon catalogue holds the reference with nobody behind it.
Nothing came back from the American, British and Spanish Amazon stores at all; the buy button there runs a search rather than opening an empty page.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
