Hourleey 2-Way Brass Garden Hose Splitter Valve Connector

Nancy: I live in an apartment complex that includes utilities and the faucet is next to my neighbor's patio. He uses one branch and I use the other. My side is connected to a steel hose with a control nozzle so my side can stay on all of the time until the weather drops. this arrangement works great for both of us.

United States on Oct 12, 2023

palmettopeach: Using a Y valve like this with our vintage camper allows us to have a water supply hose going to the camper, and also have a six-foot hose with a spray nozzle to do messy cleanups and rinses outside.

It's all metal, no plastic, so it's a far better quality hose splitter than the chrome-looking one we had previously. And, it accommodated the pressure reducer valve that one park highly recommended we use (and that is probably a good idea to use at all the parks; who wants to blow out camper plumbing?).

Very happy with this purchase.

United States on Oct 06, 2023

KARENKAREN: I had a plastic Y before and I was worried about the sun causing the plastic to become brittle or perhaps a deer hitting it and breaking the plastic Y. If the plastic one failed I would lose water until I figured out there was a water leak. Being on vacation that would have been an expense disaster.

I checked the Y's at the home improvement stores and I wasn't real impressed, but I really like this one so far. It looks well made and the female fitting allows the Y to be turned anywhere in the 360° range, unlike my plastic one. Also the valves handles are extended on both sides on the mounting screw, making it easy to turn water on/off. This wasn't the case with the ones I looked at locally.

I would buy another one, they seem well made. It comes with teflon tape and 2 rubber replacement washers. I didn't require the teflon tape for this application, but will safe it for other projects.

United States on Sep 30, 2023

Dave Millman: All brass is the only way to go with valves like this. We are tired of replacing valves because the plastic parts break or freeze or whatever. These valves are all brass, they work great and they even included extra hose washers so we will never run out.

We also purchased a Hourleey brand 4-way hose valve a few months ago. That one is sitting on the ground in the middle of a newly planted orchard, working great. Happy customer.

United States on Sep 11, 2023

LH: My only concern is the need for Teflon tape. I’ve never needed this on an outdoor hose fitting before and my hose connections don’t leak.

I initially installed to the faucet without the supplied Teflon tape and hand tightened well. The new washer was in place and properly seated. Turned it on and it leaked badly.

Added the Teflon tape - just a few layers - and no leak at all. Makes me think that the threads on the splitter just aren’t that precisely machined. Hopefully they did not affect the faucet threads before the tape was applied but anyway it works perfectly now.

I really like the fact that it is solid brass - especially the splitter valve handles as the plastic ones are notorious for breaking off especially with UV degradation out in the sun all day.

One word of prevention - if your hose fittings are aluminum or another metal other than brass be sure to remove periodically as the metals other than brass can corrode making it very difficult to remove non-brass fittings.

A little petroleum jelly on the threads may help delay the corrosion - or in this case, the Teflon tape may provide some barrier.

United States on Jul 14, 2023