How to Make a Spray Bottle That Works in Any Orientation

Everyone knows it. Your spray bottle is almost empty or you have to be in a corner where the bottle can't reach in the right position and the spray bottle no longer sprays properly! The hack I show in this Instructable will get you rid of this annoyance forever! By replacing the hard suction tube with flexible tubing and adding a weight to the end of it, the suction tube will naturally fall to the lowest point of the bottle. This will allow end of the tube to stay submerged regardless of how the bottle is positioned.

As always, I've made a short video tutorial again where you can watch this project and see the result in action.

Most of the credit for this idea goes to my grandmother. Unfortunately she is not active online and therefore cannot be tagged! She has been using a similar idea for years and I wanted to make this Instructable from it. As weight, however, she used a stone with a hole in it. Although this idea (but with a small stone as weight) has been used by my grandmother for years, I must certainly give credit to "DIY Hacks and How Tos". Because of his Instructable I replaced the stone for nuts, with a small improvement!

• Spray Bottle
• Flexible Tubing
• 5 titanium M6 Nuts (or stainless steel)
• Scissors
• Super glue

To start, unscrew the spray head from the bottle. Cut the original suction tube a few inches below the spray head. Be careful not to get any splashes of the cleanser in your eyes or on your skin. If necessary, rinse everything well with water and wear glasses just to be sure.

As the title of this step says, we are now going to mount the flexible tube. Slide the flexible tube over the original tube. The flexible tube should be slightly longer than the original total length of the tube.

Luckily I found a tube with 1/8" inner diameter in my shed that fits exactly over the original and closes well. If the tube you use is a bit too small, you can heat it up. If it is too big, you can secure it with some superglue.

Now slide the 5 titanium nuts over the flexible tube and attach them to the end of the flexible tube with some super glue.

1/4 inch nuts should be best to use because they conveniently fit on the flexible tubing without any adhesive. Unfortunately I didn't have these in titanium so I used a slightly larger size.

Most of you won't have titanium nuts lying around at home. Stainless steel is of course also great to use! The only downside is that most stainless steel nuts will corrode over time. Titanium, on the other hand, is much more resistant to chemicals.

And finished! Just screw the spray head back onto the bottle and you can use the upgraded spray bottle!

As you can see in the photos and in the video, the bottle can now be used in any position. The nuts act as weight. This will allow end of the tube to stay submerged regardless of how the bottle is positioned.