One format, more than one material
Layflat is a format before it is a material: a textile-reinforced tube that lies flat when empty, rolls compactly for transport and storage, and works on the discharge side of a pump. The company's layflat line is published in full for its PVC build on the PVC layflat hose page, and its own site lists related constructions alongside it — PE, PU and TPU layflat hose. The PE entry in that list is a polyethylene layflat offered in the same family, for buyers whose programmes standardise on polyethylene or who are comparing the two materials for the same discharge duty.
General material background, stated as general knowledge rather than company data: polyethylene and PVC are different polymers with different handling character. Polyethylene layflat is generally the lighter, stiffer-feeling tube; PVC layflat is generally the more supple one in cold conditions and the one with the longer published record in this catalogue. Neither general statement rates a specific hose — wall build, textile reinforcement and pressure class are construction facts, and for the PE build they are the facts an enquiry confirms.
What the published record fixes — and what it does not
The record fixes the listing itself: PE layflat hose stands in the company's layflat family, next to the PVC build whose published family data is set out on the family page. Those figures belong to the PVC build alone. They are not restated here as PE data, and no bore, pressure, temperature or roll-length figure for the PE construction is published in the company's data this site is built from.
What an enquiry therefore confirms for the PE build, in the written quotation: the bore range actually offered, the working and burst pressure at your bore, the service temperature range, the roll lengths and colours offered, and the minimum order. State the duty the hose will see — the medium, the pump pressure, the bore and the metres per roll — so the quotation answers for that specification rather than for the format in general.
Duties the layflat format is listed for
The layflat family's recorded uses, published for the family on its own page, run to irrigation, drainage and pumping — including drip watering, lawn sprinkler systems, flooding watering and firefighting. A PE build ordered for one of those duties is specified against the same facts: medium, pressure at the pump, bore, run length and the ground the hose will lie on. If your duty involves a medium other than water — a slurry, a light chemical, an oil-bearing flow — name it and its concentration in the enquiry; material suitability is a compound question, and polyethylene and PVC do not answer it identically.
Is PE layflat hose the same product as PVC layflat hose?
No — they are two material builds of one format, listed side by side in the same family. The PVC build carries the family's published specification table; the PE build's figures are confirmed per enquiry in the written quotation.
What sizes and pressures does the PE build come in?
No size or pressure table for the PE build is published in the company's data. State your bore and working pressure in the enquiry and ask for the offered range and the rating at your bore to be confirmed in writing.
Can layflat hose feed the suction side of a pump?
No. Layflat hose is not offered for the suction side in this range. State the pump's inlet size, the lift and the run in the enquiry, and ask for the intake construction to be confirmed in the quotation.
Request a Quotation
Send the hose family, bore size, working pressure, length per roll and total quantity. MOQ, packing and lead time are confirmed in the written quotation for your exact specification. If the hose will be supplied as a finished assembly, name the coupling standard you need (for example camlock type and size, flange or thread) — or state that you need bare hose only.