I posted about this in another place when I found it but the process needed a different place.
So I was at a light and looked over and saw on the edge this fire hose.
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It's an inch and a half hose which winds up being 3 inches wide when flat and 50 feet long. It must have fallen off someone's truck. It has obviously been used and was very dirty but the texture was not ripped, worn or tattered.
The first thing I did was throw it out on the lawn and spray it with the garden hose. Then I put it on the driveway which is on a slope and folded one end over and stretched it out down the concrete. Then stuck the hose in the high end and let it fill up. It got really stiff then so I sprayed it well while inflated.
After that it spent a couple of days in my two person jacuzzi tub loose so I could do the wine making/grape treading thing with my feet a few times. Sorry, no pictures of me doing an I Love Lucy.
Next step was to put it in a wash tub on the porch and fill it with water for a soak.
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First few soaks were just water but then I started with laundry soap.
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This is after about 5 soaks overnight and some manual agitation, dump, rinse repeat. It is still a little dark but getting clearer with every cycle. Once I get the water to soak out to clear I have more methods to get it all cleaned up and usable.
Tune in next episode to see what comes next