Bought an unbranded version of one of these today at TKmax for 12.99. It's brilliant, light weight, stretches the whole length of my garden. It has a spray fitting with all different settings on and where as my old hose just seemed to drizzle, somehow this one blasts out the water.
The main problem I've heard about with them is that they can't be repaired. I've seen a couple of reports of people cross threading the connector and the hose then being unusable. With a conventional hose you would just get a new connector.
I ran an old hose down the garden and attached it at intervals to the fence and then to an external tap at the greenhouse. That way I only need about 30 feet of hose to wind in and out. BUT it is very hard to handle the old fashioned hoses they are so stiff and they do kink. I'm thinking of one of those flat wind out ones. I've got a spiral one but it constantly gets wound round itself.So I'm interested in this discussion.
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Sorry you've been having a sucky time too Pinky
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Thanks panda.
Bought an unbranded version of one of these today at TKmax for 12.99. It's brilliant, light weight, stretches the whole length of my garden. It has a spray fitting with all different settings on and where as my old hose just seemed to drizzle, somehow this one blasts out the water.
Oooh, a trip to TKMax is in order... Ta for the tip!
You're welcome, I got the smaller one, they had a larger one for 16.99
The main problem I've heard about with them is that they can't be repaired. I've seen a couple of reports of people cross threading the connector and the hose then being unusable. With a conventional hose you would just get a new connector.
The TKMax one just split, well that is going back.
I ran an old hose down the garden and attached it at intervals to the fence and then to an external tap at the greenhouse. That way I only need about 30 feet of hose to wind in and out. BUT it is very hard to handle the old fashioned hoses they are so stiff and they do kink. I'm thinking of one of those flat wind out ones. I've got a spiral one but it constantly gets wound round itself.So I'm interested in this discussion.