How do YOU dry the hose?

[Rustyolddude]

You could always make something like what is used to dry the inside of clarinets. Attach a piece of clean, absorbent cloth that fits snugly into the hose to a string that is a bit longer than the hose. Attach a small weight to the other end of the string. Drop the weight into the hose and use the string to pull the cloth through.

This is the same solution I had in mind. You could pull a disinfecting wipe thru, then a lintless drying wipe. Kinda like a "Hose Swiffer"
They have a similar product for cleaning firearms called a Bore Snake.

[WearyOne]

I use a heated hose and rinse it out occasionally (as the instructions suggested), hanging it up on a wire coat hanger-type contraption I made. For daily drying out, I just pull the humidifier tank out of the chamber and leave the door open so some air can get in there during the day. Someone here suggested that and I works well for me.

[6PtStar]

I took a hose connector and DUCK TAPED it to the end of one of my wifes old hair dryers. Used it for a while. Then got the bright idea. Extra hose cost $9.99 from cpap.com. Use hose every other day and just hang it to dry. By then it is completely dry with out all the fuss. Just don't wash both hoses on the same day!!

Jerry

[jasminechichi]

I was taught by my DME to wash the hose every week. Although I will confess I wash it about once a month because I did not see a need to do it that often....

Thanks for the information.

[rosiefrosie]

I don't get it - if it IS clean (as in just cleaned) why worry about drying it? Why not just put on and use it? You will just be adding more moisture to the dry hose, no?

To me drying it in room air will likely add many more impurities than you had before the cleaning.

On another note - doesn't Resmed make some models now that when turned off, leave the blower on to dry out the hose for a time?

Yes, when I turn off my machine, it continues to blow air (at a much lower speed) to dry out the hose. I don't wash mine all that often either and have not noticed any problems.

Rosie

[GumbyCT]

Thanks rosie - do you know what that feature is called? Or maybe I should be askin carbonman??

[BeanMeScot]

I hang mine over a door hanger for a few hours and then blow through it for about 10 minutes with one of those pumps to blow up an airbed. There is too much moisture in the whole thing if I don't dry it some before I used it.

[Jason S.]

I don't get it - if it IS clean (as in just cleaned) why worry about drying it? Why not just put on and use it? You will just be adding more moisture to the dry hose, no?

To me drying it in room air will likely add many more impurities than you had before the cleaning.

On another note - doesn't Resmed make some models now that when turned off, leave the blower on to dry out the hose for a time?

I run very hot water through it, shake as much as I can out, hang it to dry (which it never does), then run air through it for a few minutes (doesn't dry it either). But I don't hook it up until I'm ready to use it, in which case filtered humidified distilled water will be going through it, so I don't worry about the excess tap water that didn't dry completely.

[joeydan]

I hang the hose end to end vertically instead of over a bar in an inverted "U" which is how I store it.Interestingly, the bottom half will dry first after which you can reverse the ends. Depending on the relative humidity, it should dry within one day.

[mattman]

I've never once cleaned a hose in the 3 years I've used a cpap. Just don't really see the point!

[rosiefrosie]

Thanks rosie - do you know what that feature is called? Or maybe I should be askin carbonman??

I'm not sure what the feature is called. Came with my machine. Sorry, I'm sure this is no help at all.

[pitrow]

Thanks rosie - do you know what that feature is called? Or maybe I should be askin carbonman??

I'm not sure what the feature is called either, but mine does it too. In the morning when I take my mask off it continues to blow, just enough that I can feel it if I put my hand at the end of the hose. I just use this to dry out the hose. It also does it again at night when I hit the "warmer" function to preheat the humidifier, blows just enough air to keep things moving through the hose.

[wrenn]

When I take my mask off in the morning there are water droplets in the hose so I just disconnect the mask and let the machine continue to run for about 10 minutes or so and it dries. I then disconnect the hose from the machine and drape it over a shelf for the day.

[kopoloff]

I recall seeing on this board a home made system that used a light bulb in a box and convection from the air that is warmed by the light bulb to dry the hose. I wonder how well that worked out in the end.

This is what you were looking at
viewtopic/t39373/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39 ... 05#p341005

It works a treat. Even in the coldesst weather, when the house gets down to about 10deg C during the day, when there's nobody home and the heating is off, it seems to completely dry the hose in about 90 minutes.

I was going to put a blower on it too, but in the end I found some more productive things to do.

Cheers

K

[dels]

I always wash it, and for good reason. I was in hospital and picked up the nastiest antibiotic resistant pseudamonis, I almost died from it, and it was crawling inside of my tubing masks and so on. One poster who wrote we do exhale is very right! I picked the infection up in hospital, and contaminated my things in the process. I wash my tubing twice a week, along with the mask and every other "part" that is able to be cleaned.

When I do the tubing, I hold it tight and kind of shake it hard, I find that removes most of the water, I then hang the tubing over a hanger to drip dry. It has always worked well for me.