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Garden hoses - what’s best?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have two Hozelock and love them
  • MattyDMattyD Posts: 34
    Iamweedy said:
    We bought the Hoselock "starter hose" (the cheaper one) it is dreadful. We got caught out and it is far too thin it kinks very badly.

    You have to get the reinforced one £50 ish if you don't want to end up wanting to scream every time you use it.

    The thicker one is OK but does not wind onto the plastic Hozelock carrier very easily as it is difficult to wind up. We now have the old thin one as well and and don't know what to do with it.  I wish we had bought the Gardena instead.
    I agree, I bought the thicker one and it is a nightmare to wind up.
  • stuart.dotstuart.dot Posts: 127
    You need another pair of hands to feed the hose to the one winding it on. As I said earlier, fill the reel with concrete and it stays put as you wind
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    If you think coiling a standard hose is difficult, try coiling up a seeper / soaker hose when it's not needed!
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    The previous owners left me two Gardena 25m hoses on wheel-about reels and they are fantastic- I attach them to 10m long hoses (one end on the tap the other clicks onto the wheelie reel) so have a 35m range in total. One is clearly older, and is the better one because it is more bendy and rubberised - it never kinks. The newer one is slightly stiffer/more plastic and can kink where it joins the wheelie reel if you don’t reel the first bit in by hand, but both are good quality and would highly recommend them. Expensive though, I looked at the price recently in a garden centre and nearly fell over in shock.
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  • AlisonjayneAlisonjayne Posts: 111
    edited June 2018
    We had a kinky Hoselock (ooer) so bought a verve version from B&Q for about £40, its the best thing we have ever bought, its an absolute joy to use. I used to dread watering the garden but now look forward to it as it makes life so easy.

    This is ours but it was on offer for £42 I think.  
    https://www.diy.com/departments/verve-primoflex-wheeled-hose-cart-l-40-m/3663602891109_BQ.prd
    Must stop buying more plants, repeat, must stop buying....
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I think you have linked the hose cart
  • AlisonjayneAlisonjayne Posts: 111
    Fire said:
    I think you have linked the hose cart

    I have, that's what we bought as it comes with a 40 metre hose.

    Must stop buying more plants, repeat, must stop buying....
  • NiniSNiniS Posts: 18
    I'm sorry for hijacking this thread, but I am also looking for a hose in our garden. The problem is however, I am not sure what connector piece I need to connect a hose to my outdoor tap. I have measured the tap and it is 2.5 cm (0.98 inch). What connector piece would I need for this then?


    Also, this tap seems quite old (we moved into this house just over a year ago, so not sure how old it is), and I am worried about things like water flowing back in (is that possible? It's connected to the kitchen) and it freezing during winter. Is this type of tap fine with those things?
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    What has happened here. I have not been able to get onto the site and it kept not showing the password I had chosen and its an old thread. 



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