How to identify a high-quality fire hose

Fire-fighting products are kinds of lifelines, which are used to help people escape when breaking out of a fire.While using fake and inferior fire-fighting products will not only be useless at critical moments, and even become an accomplice to the fire. During the putting out process, inferior fire hoses will lose the function of rescue due to leakage. So, how to choose a safe and reliable fire hose? ZYfire will make some introductions for you:

01 Check the product logo on package

The product marks should be clear and durable on the surface and package of regular fire-protection products. The product logo may include the manufacturer's name,product name, product model, technical data sheet, trademark, production date and standard code.

The appearance marks of counterfeit and shoddy fire hoses are often vague and rough, with incomplete content that consumers can find problems as long as they pay close attention.

02 Check the size

Length:the length of ZYfire’s fire hose is not allowed to have negative tolerances.  However, many manufacturers' products on the market claim to be 20 meters, and the actual length is only 18-19 meters or even shorter, which is obviously an unqualified product.

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Check the appearance

Traditional fire hoses are lined with rubber/PU and with polyester filament/yarn as weaving jacket outside. Fire hoses have metal fittings at both ends, which can be connected to another hose to extend the distance or nozzles to increase the liquid spray pressure.

Nowadays,the outer layer of the commonly used fire hose on the market is woven with polyester fiber, and the qualified fire hose with woven evenly, smooth and flat surface, neat and oil-free, and no jumping, broken double warp, no jumping dew weft and without scratches.

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Check the inner lining

The lining of qualified fire protection products should be smooth and flat, wrinkle-free, have good elasticity, and have good adhesion strength between the lining and jacket.The common lining materials on the market are plastic (PVC) and polyurethane, polyurethane lining hose with a better environmental adaptability, longer service life. There are some simple ways to distinguish these two materials:

(1) Fire method: Judge the color, smoke and smell of the flame when set a fire to the hose.

(2) Touching method: use your hand to press and rub the lining.

(3) Stretching method: Cut a small section of the lining from the hose and  stretch to find the differences of the tensile strength.

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Check the price

Any qualified product should use qualified raw materials and under production in strict process. Price is always determined by quality. ZYfire’s fire hoses have competitive price and excellent quality.

ZYfire is a national high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development, manufacturing and sales of layflat hose made of polyurethane, rubber and plastic alloy and other polymer materials. ZYfire has passed ISO9001, ISO14001, hoses are approved by UL, FM, NFPA, GL/MED, DIN14811, EN14540, EN694, BS6391, CCS, CE etc. Hoses with diameter from 13 mm~1500mm, length up to 10,000 meters, widely used in oil and gas industry, fire emergency rescue, agricultural, mining, no-dig rehabilitation and other fields, which exported to Europe, America, Australia, the Middle East, South America and other more than 100 countries and regions.