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Hose pipe

jasondurbinjasondurbin Posts: 12
in Tools and techniques
Looking for recomendations on a new hose pipe, It needs to be 50meters. I have had a few cheap ones now and they are pretty naff, become a tangled mess and not very nice to use.
Is there any really good plyable hoses out there? Budget is £50 but would spend more if it is extra special. Thanks in adnance.

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Hozelock ultimate  50m. Manufacturers 30 year guarantee. (save your receipt) should be able to get it for £50.   My last one has been abused around the garden for five years now and is fine.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Have a look at Gardena. Good quality, non-kink hose and excellent non-leak fittings. I inherited two with my house and judging by the rusty state of the hose reels they were fairly elderly already and now wouldn’t have anything else. 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • jasondurbinjasondurbin Posts: 12
    Thank you  :)
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I am another in the Gardena fan club. Mine is retracting and wall mounted but is likely to cost c.£125
    Rutland, England
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I used to be a Hoselock fan but I am moving to Gardena too, at least 2 GC's I visit have said same. sadly Hoselock fittings especially not the quality they used to be.
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Gardena here too
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited September 2019
    Bought a Gardena no-kink hosepipe and reel when we left Harrow for Belgium in 1991.   By the time we left Belgium, 3 years ago, it had been out in all weathers and was starting to kink so we left it behind.

    10 years ago I bought a Hozelock automatic reel and hose-pipe.   It's been great but has recently started to kink and no longer re-winds.

    Gardena for me next time too.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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