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Best type of wall mounted hose reel?

dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
in Problem solving
My mind is boggling at the choice!
What on earth are latex magic hoses - what are they like?!
I have a very old, rubbish reel that kinks way too easily, doesn’t wind up onto its stand properly any more, has a winding handle that keeps falling off and it drives me mad.

What are your  recommendations please?
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not Hozelock in a cassette with automatic rewind.   Bought one of these for my last garden and it lasted just a couple of years before it needed persuading to rewind.  The unkinkable hose wasn't.   We brought it with us as it was expensive and less than a year later no rewind at all and now way to get in and fix it and the hose kinked worse than ever.

    Just use an ordinary manual wind hose reel now and it's fine.

    We did buy a Gardena unkinkable hose in 1991 with a manual rewind reel stand.  The hose lasted nearly 2 decades but the reel only a few years before one of its supports broke.  
    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
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I have a wall mounted automatically retracting Gardena hose and it is probably the best gardening purchase I have ever made. It doesn’t leak, doesn’t kink and rewinds effortlessly.
    Rutland, England
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    BenCotto said:
    I have a wall mounted automatically retracting Gardena hose and it is probably the best gardening purchase I have ever made. It doesn’t leak, doesn’t kink and rewinds effortlessly.
    Good to know Ben - May I ask how long you have had it for and which model you have please?
    A previous retractable type like yours, that we left in our old garden as it was so awful, just stopped retracting and wasn’t great at all. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Forgot to add the Hozelock hose sprung leaks all over the place so become useless as well as kinky and unwindable and was binned 18 months ago. 
    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
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Obelixx said:
    Not Hozelock in a cassette with automatic rewind.   Bought one of these for my last garden and it lasted just a couple of years before it needed persuading to rewind.  The unkinkable hose wasn't.   We brought it with us as it was expensive and less than a year later no rewind at all and now way to get in and fix it and the hose kinked worse than ever.

    Just use an ordinary manual wind hose reel now and it's fine.

    We did buy a Gardena unkinkable hose in 1991 with a manual rewind reel stand.  The hose lasted nearly 2 decades but the reel only a few years before one of its supports broke.  
    Can I ask which manual hose you now have Obelixx?
    Our current one is manual but kinks badly and is on a stand, so it’s nigh on impossible to get it neatly back onto the stand once fully unwound. Puts me off using it p. I would rather a manual wind up version, but within a cassette this time, if I have the choice, so it goes in easier, but without the kinking!
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Has anybody tried the weird, green, crinkly magic hoses? They look uncannily like snot coloured intestines...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Bog standard, generic and bright yellow from a garden centre.  We have a large garden so I leave 3 of them connected to each other and trailing down to the veggie plot.   The only time I wind them up is for winter so they don't get frozen.

    I have another bog standard green one from a local store that I wind up on a hand reel cos it's kept on the terrace for watering all the pots and the herb bed.

    I have given up buying brand name hoses after the Hozelock experience.
    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
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Not surprised.
    I have to be able to wind mine back on, as otherwise it would trail down a narrow side passage that we also use for other stuff, and would get in our way. It kinks particularly badly one it has been taken around slight bends or small corners. Lack of kink is crucial.
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    BenCotto said:
    I have a wall mounted automatically retracting Gardena hose and it is probably the best gardening purchase I have ever made. It doesn’t leak, doesn’t kink and rewinds effortlessly.
    Hi Ben,

    which Gardena one is it? Thanks.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’ll have a look tomorrow morning. We’ve had it since December 2016.
    Rutland, England
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