Oxygen Concentrator Supplies - Lung Conditions C...

Lung Conditions Community Forum

55,236 members • 66,012 posts

Oxygen Concentrator Supplies

•

10 years ago•15 Replies

Having now been put on Home Oxygen I wish to install more tubing to avoid it trailing over the floor. Anyone know where the tubing can be obtained, along with connectors etc.

TIA

Alan

The ability to reply to this post has been turned off.

15 Replies

•

Mocarey10 years ago

I imagine your supplier would suppply it. I have plenty of spare here which they gave me. I'ts handy in case mine gets damaged. I just give them a call when i need cannulas. when they come every three months to check out my concentrator i would ask them for more. M x

Toci10 years ago

As Mocary says, the tubing is supplied on demand. I had mine lengthened so I could get to the bottom of the garden. Just ask.

marypink19 in reply to Toci10 years ago

after bitterly complaining and after a nurse asking for more piping I did get some extension but not enough to make life easy and in some parts of the house have to use a bottle they say its because they have been sued for compensation after someone tripped over piping still chasing for more piping

10 years ago

Many thanks for the replies, will do that

kimmy5910 years ago

My concentrator is supplied by Dolby Vivisol they install and service it. Who's your supplier maybe they would know.

Kim

Puffthemagicdragon10 years ago

As the others have said your oxygen provider will supply the tubing. They will also fix it around the house so it does trail everywhere if you want that.

Puffthemagicdragon10 years ago

I get my spare tubing when I stay with my grown up children on the south coast. The provider only throws it away so don't mind me keeping it. Comes in handy for replacing car screen washer pipes and suchlike !

happyfeet5910 years ago

As puff says - your oxygen provider will fit tubing all round your house for you if you want them to. They will take it through walls/floors to get it to where you want it and also provide a switch so that you can choose which room you want it in. Then you just 'plug in' in that room. This reduces the amount of spare tubing you have trailing around.

The engineer offered to do it for me on his first visit but I didn't know how it would 'work' for me so choose to have the trailing tube until I work out what would be best. He said they prefer to attach the tubing themselves as we might punctire the tubing and cause leakages. (Also they can charge nhs for the work)

marypink19 in reply to happyfeet5910 years ago

landlord will not allow this so piping it round the house is not an option had I not had the freedom from the previous supplier I would not be any wiser thank goodness for forums like this

DozyDormouse10 years ago

The length of tube that has been fitted is the maximum length for safety and maintaining the correct flow rate. If you need more then your supplier will come in and come up with a plan for you to get to all parts of your home.

marypink19 in reply to DozyDormouse10 years ago

my supplier Bywarter will not allow this

marypink1910 years ago

My supplier is new and has replaced the supplier I had for 5 years they are insisting that you can only have 6ft of tubing so and to get around the house I have to carry my portable cylinders around the house can you imagine the problems with this after much arguing they relented to having more tubing but still not enough to make life easy anybody else having these problems in the Shropshire area.

Fanacapan9 in reply to marypink1910 years ago

Yes Mary pink, I'm with bay water too

happyfeet5910 years ago

marypink, I have about 30ft of tubing which gives me oxygen from upstairs room, where concentrators live, to the corner of my kitchen downstairs. Frustratingly this does not allow me to reach the farthest corner of my lounge - which is why it has a mountain of dust in it! lol! . As dozy says there is a maximum allowed for maintaining flow rate.

For my portable cylinders I have about 6ft of tubing. I believe this is for safety. I put my cylinder in a wheeled bag so that I can wheel it around the garden etc. And, ok, I do dust the lounge!

My provider has changed from air products to baywater but no one, as yet, has told me I need to give up any of my tubing. It is a bit of a safety hazard though as I wander round, getting it caught in doorways and nearly strangling me!!

RibvanRey10 years ago

The Pulmonary Nurse Specialist who supervises my care told me that the max length of the tubing possible was 15 meters. I queried this with my supplier when the engineer came to service my concentrator and I asked him about this. I wanted to know whether it was that the NHS would only pay for 15 meters or if the supplier was limiting the tubing length. I said that I was happy to pay for the extra length. The engineer explained that 15 meters was the maximum length because more than that would cause the concentrator to malfunction. I would not get the O2 level that I was set at and the machine would start setting off the alarm for fault warnings.

My solution was to roll my concentrator to the socket nearest my outside door on its tiny but handy wheels. I can now go outside with 12 meters of tubing to set me free.

Hope this helps. Regards Rib

The ability to reply to this post has been turned off.