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Hosepipes
PottingPeat
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Hi Everybody I need a new hosepipe and been looking at the expandable ones, has anybody one or tried one are they any good. thanks.Potting Peat.
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if you mean the x hose, there was a few threads around about them splitting after a few months use.
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/xhose-collapsible-hosepipe-bursting/737074.html
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/tools-and-techniques/xhose--any-good/289528.html
Thanks Figetbones I won't be buying the X hose, the one I've been looking at is the Hozelock model, has anybody tried these. thanks.
I would suspect that the underlying problem with expanding hoses will be the same irrespective of manufacturer. With a standard hose it's easy to repair if damaged accidentally. Expandable hoses seem to be a write off if damaged in any way.
I've recently replaced mine with a Fitt NTS Wintech hose and it's the only one I've ever had which hasn't kinked on me.
I bought a Gardena non kink hose in 1991 and it only started kinking in the last couple of years. I had kept it on a reel all that time which helps. Having a large garden at front and back of our last house, one hose wasn't enough and I've found none to match it since despite keeping them on reels but the latest is a Hozelock which automatically rewinds into its wall mounted housing and that's good so far.
Now all I need is some leak proof connectors. Tried all sorts, plastic and metal.
Thanks folks I have bought a hozelock on a reel,won't be using it this as rain is forecast all week,still will be ready when it hots up! PP.
Obelixx - I have a Hozelok - bought far too long really but because I don't have an outside tap. Also the hose has to be attached to a bathroom tap, be pushed up through the high bathroom window and it has to cross over descending steps over a fence into the garden.
We have taps which I haven't been able to ever find a fitting for - so the hose is held onto the tap with an old fashioned hair wash spray rubber socket thing which fixes on to the tap. The hose slides onto the end of this but I have to have it wrapped around with various tapes and I also have thick garden wire holding the whole bit onto the tap. It's the best way I could get it to work at all and I spend the entire summer fiddling with it as I have to wrap a towel around the tap join as water always escapes.
I've yet to find a remedy. I was given an x-hose but never used it because I couldn't fit it to the tap.
That all sounds very complicated. Can you not get an outside tap fitted?
I do have an outside tap and a dooberry that lets me attache 3 hosepipes and have a spout for filling watering cans. The problem I have is that the connectors on teh ends of hoses to which I attach sprinklers or spray guns always end up leaking and/or blasting off the end of the hosepipe and the hoses mounted on ordinary reels always leak at the side of the reel. I've tried Hozelock and Gardena connectors and some French make but no luck so far.
The next trick will be attaching hosepipes to the water butt taps........;
Last edited: 05 June 2017 15:35:10
Yarrow2, wouldn't a jubilee clip be easier?