| | |  | Bowls | Home » » » » H20 Animal Hydration Flow Automatic Waterer | | | | | | | Description: | | Sir Aqua 1-4/5-gallon stainless steel automatic waterer attaches to any garden hose, providing fresh water for your pet. | | | Features: | |
• Attaches to any garden hose to provide constant flow of fresh drinking water for your pet
• Made from heavy-duty stainless steel with high-density polypropylene cover
• Ideal for cats, dogs, sheep, goats, and other outdoor pets
• Largest drinking area of its kind
• Mechanical float valve provides safety and reliability
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 90 reviews |
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37 of 37 found the following review helpful:
 Best auto fill dog water bowl for the money ever!Nov 09, 2006
By George Gabriel
"DCJP Company"
I had purchased a smaller, made from plastic self filling water bowl for more money at the beginning of the summer. It lasted 24hrs before the fill valves went bad. Two weeks later my Labs had destroyed it.
This bowl is so heavy duty that in order to drill a hole through it to secure it to my deck, I broke a drill bit. I am happy to say that despite my Labs best efforts to destroy this bowl (they try to play with it) it is going strong, fills like a champ, turns off when it is supposed to and carries a ton of water.
I am very satisfied. If need be, I would defiantly purchase another.
High Quality
Priced correctly
Shipped Quickly
5 Stars all the way, thanks
25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect for dogs of all sizes.May 23, 2008
By Jason B
This bowl is nice and sturdy and the edge of the bowl sits pretty low allowing access to both big and small pets. So far so good, I haven't experienced any leaks. I definitely would buy this item again if I needed another.
My only gripe is the connection for the hose is made of plastic. I'm sure that after repeatedly screwing/unscrewing the hose you may end up messing up the threads. To remedy this I just added a quick connect to make cleaning/moving easy.
Since a hose doesn't come included, be sure to purchase an appropriate "ok for drinking" hose; such as the ones used for RV's. Don't just buy any regular hose...those can contain cancer-causing chemicals that can leach into the water!
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Very pleased with the Sir Aqua bowl ...Sep 09, 2006
By BearCreek Man
We're very pleased with our Sir Aqua water bowl. At first I was a bit skeptical since our 100lb German Shepherd pup has a tendency to put his paw in his old water bowl and tip it over. Due to the size of the bowl, it's impossible for him to tip the bowl. With three dogs (plus a 75lb Akita/Shepherd and a 30lb Lhaso Alpso), we never have to worry again about keeping the bowl filled. A real plus during the summer. The only drawback is cleaning out the bowl when that 100lb pup puts his dirty paws into the water bowl and dirtying up the water. Highly recommended.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Secret to no leaks and placement ideaJul 18, 2011
By J. S. Carr
For years we used a plastic watering bowl that had a "top tank" and filled the part the dogs drank out of. Eventually it got to the point where the plastic could no longer be cleaned and, having had some knee problems that complicated daily life, decided to replace it with this automatic filling bowl instead of a similar design (price is about the same).
Size: This bowl is 13-14 inches across and about 5 inches high. That's big. I have a couple of stainless water / food bowls that are maybe 10" across and I assumed this would be comparable. It's not. We have a couple of medium-to-big dogs so it's fine but if you have a dog who is, say, 20-30 pounds or less, this bowl will look ginormous. Note that because the float valve and associated plumbing are enclosed in plastic the full "face" of the bowl is not available for drinking, so the available surface area is comparable to a smaller bowl.
Placement: I wanted to place the bowl so that if any parts fail or get tipped over in some worst case scenario like we're heading out of town it doesn't cause any flooding. I settled on placing it by the drain in the basement that goes to the sump well (and only turning the supply on part way). This is out of the way floor space that isn't useful for much else anyway. I then ran a drinking water hose (bought locally to save a few $) to the washing machine supply. I leak proofed everything (see below), including a Y connector, put the Y connector on the cold supply faucet to the washing machine and hooked everything up.
Leak-proofing: There is a very easy secret, actually 2 secrets, to making hose connections leak-free in general, and there's an extra gotcha for this water bowl.
- General hose connections: First you need a decent gasket in the female connector. Soft plastic is okay, but some hoses and sprayers come with hard plastic gaskets. Replace them with a rubber one. You can get 12 of them in the lawn & garden section for like $3 and they will save you loads of time and hassle (and water!). Second you need to lubricate the gaskets. I have a kegerator so I have Lubri-Film Plus around anyway and it works perfectly (if you can find something like that locally it will cost about half that much, try a homebrew shop if nowhere else). You probably don't want to run around town for something called Lubrifilm though so alternately you can just use KY Jelly - it won't work quite as well, but it's a million times better than a dry gasket. You only need to squeeze about 1/8" inch out of the tube to do a gasket or two so one tube will last you indefinitely (been using mine for 5 years and counting)
- This specific bowl: This bowl has a male GHT (garden hose thread) connector coming out of it and a female-to-female adapter on that to connect to a hose. BOTH female sides have a gasket. Lube BOTH of them. The included gaskets were soft enough to seal but before I connected the hose I removed the adapter, pulled out both gaskets, lubricated them both (it just takes a very light film of covering), and popped them back in. The whole process takes about 2 minutes and will save you a lot of headaches and screwing around. I believe that most of the users who have experienced leaks with this bowl can fix them by performing this procedure as maintenance. No matter how hard you tighten a hose on a dry gasket it will not seal! But a lubed gasket will seal perfectly with moderate tightening.
If the connectors on the hoses in your yard drip doing this will likely help those too. I've used this stuff on other plumbing fixtures like showerheads too. It makes o-rings and gaskets and things like that seal the way they're supposed to.
I can really believe that if the gaskets weren't lubed it would be impossible to get the proper tightness on both sides of the adapter and one or the other would invariably leak. I sympathize with the other reviewers who've had problems! No production line is perfect and I can believe some deliver that leak no matter what but I think an extra minute's care of the gaskets will prevent or solve most problems. Garden hose connectors are pretty low tech. They will NOT seal if you tighten them as hard as you possibly can but they WILL seal with a dab of petroleum jelly on both sides of the gasket.
I check comments frequently so feel free to leave one with any questions otherwise please click Yes if helpful and thanks for reading!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Rust ProblemsMay 22, 2009
By S. Powers
The bowl rusted within 30 days..... not what was promised.....
Would recommend a plastic bowl version...
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