Attaching vinyl hose to overflow without restricting flow

[Harry Muscle]

I'm planning the plumbing for my upcoming tank. The tank will be in my living room with the sump in the basement. There's about 6 feet between the tank overflow pipe and the spot in the wall that connects to the basement.

Originally I thought I would use flexible PVC to make this 6 foot connection but after looking at videos of this stuff it looks like it's actually not that flexible and more often tries to revert back to a straight or differently curved shape.

So I'm thinking of using vinyl tubing instead or maybe the black pond tubing that Flex PVC sells. Either way these hoses usually connect via barbed connectors but these are really bad at restricting the water flow. So I'm wondering if anyone has ever figured out a way to connect a vinyl house to a PVC pipe without restricting the water flow via barb connectors?

Thanks,
Harry

P.S. I'm trying to avoid plumbing this 6 foot section with rigid PVC in case the tank needs to move a few inches based in my wife's feedback. Having a flexible connection would make things easier. [emoji1]

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

Use a heat gun to make the spa flex more flexible. .. our I should say to take the pre-existing flex out of it

 

[ca1ore]

I have used flexible PVC on all of my drains and it is more than pliable enough. Just get the ultra flex stuff and you will be fine. Should you decide to go vinyl, you can just oversize the tubing with a few PVC adapters so that the hose barb is not restrictive.

 

[sleepydoc]

+1 to the above comments.

IME, vinyl tubing is also prone to kinking. You can get reinforced vinyl tubing that won't kink as easily, but it doesn't bend as easily and has a memory like flexible PVC. I would suggest getting some flexible PVC and see how it does for you after heating it up. It will probably be just fine for your needs.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

on a side note be very careful heating the pipe up….PVC fumes are toxic. do it outside if you can.

 

[jonwright]

Use a heat gun to make the spa flex more flexible. .. our I should say to take the pre-existing flex out of it

This.

I'd exhaust all efforts with PVC before I went to vinyl. I mean last resort.

Also I'd see what I could find at us plastics. Silicone is really flexy. Easily crushed though. PVC man.