Someone who shall remain nameless backed the car over the garden hose squishing the end fitting so it was almost pancake flat and not very useful. Since the thought of throwing out a perfectly good ...

Save water and time with this easy garden hose repair. Patch pinholes and small hose leaks using parts and tools you probably have at home. Sometimes, a garden hose will spring a pinhole. Every leak ...

Broken and leaking garden hoses can be a source of frustration unless you know a few tricks to make garden hose hole repair quicker and easier. Unavoidably, garden hoses spring leaks or get run over ...

Like our economy, a garden hose can only stretch so far before it springs a leak. We may not be able to repair the economy, but we can sure help you repair your garden hose. There is no economy where ...

Don’t throw out that leaking or broken garden hose — repair it with a barbed hose fitting or some self-fusing tape designed specifically for water-tight repairs. Step 1: If the hose is leaking at one ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

I'm all for saving water wherever I can, and the garden is one of the best places to start. With the exception of an irrigation system, the biggest opportunity outdoors to save water comes from the ...

Hydraulic hoses are literally the lifelines of most construction equipment. Nothing can grind productivity to a halt faster than a ruptured hose. A little time invested up front to monitor the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mr. Fix It Lou Manfredini joins us at WGN to ...