Wanted: an easy to use hosepipe that won't make a nuisance of itself

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New hosepipe needed.

Doesn't need to live in it's own housing; longish; will last a couple of years or so; prepared to find it a place in the shed to live over winter.

Simply want a hosepipe that will function as and when needed. Any ideas about such an elusive product?

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Pay the money and get a Karcher. We have had ours since 2016, it gets near daily use and hasn't let me down once. It's bloody brilliant. Ours does have it's own housing, mind.

Also, why not get it on a reel? It will look after itself mich more easily and less likely to kink??

I got an expandable one. It shrinks back to nothing and is easy to deal with.

Mine is this one, it’s great, you get shorter sizes, the only thing I’d say about expandable hoses is go for a decent quality one like this one, don’t go for the cheap ones, they last about one or two uses then burst.

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Ooh I have that one @Bluntness100, it's really good.

NickMyLipple I hadn't realised Karcher did hosepipes. Which one do you have?

Had one on a reel long ago that was an ordeal to rewind but maybe need to reconsider.

Bluntness100 expandable ones had appealed but had read that they had a short life expectancy.

We have a hoselock retractable one. Its brilliant for being easy to tidy up !

I think if you get a good quality one it’s fine, I have two, one is now in its second year and no issues. It’s the cheap ones that are crap. The decent ones are also guaranteed.

Hozelock. Have had it for years and it never kinks or has had any other issues. Also stays out over winter. Expensive but well worth it in my opinion. Needed another one recently and couldn't afford hozelock so got a homebase brand one. Nowhere near as good and kinks all the time!

I've recently bought a Gardena flexible hose and I am living it

It never kinks and is really light weren't for a basic holder as we don't want a great depth and it's actually easier to fold away than the damn blasted Hozelick reel

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After years of battling with the hospice, I got a Gardena one last summer and it is the business. Ours has a reel though. And it is yellow!

I have this one www.screwfix.com/p/hozelock-auto-reel-30m/54338 and I love it! It makes the tedious task of watering a little easier. Mine is as good as new in spite of being 3 years old and well used.

This Gardena one

Wall bracket ideal for us as it takes up little space as the path is narrow where the tap is. You can fit all the spray heads etc at the front

I have an expandable one. I got it after my Mum's had lasted 3 years so thought it was worth a go. Hers is now 5 years old and mine is 2. Both going strong. I love it being easy to deal with but I was shocked how much water it needs to expel after the tap goes off! Mine is long enough to get all round the house and garden though.

Aldi cheap one. It's tidy and great

I have the same one as @tealady, it's fantastic. I was after a reeled one for years, and when we were in a garden centre DH saw that the staff were using this one (although they had a few of them, not just one!). We thought that if it gets lots of use and still works well after a few years it will be worth it. And it has been! It's genuinely made a HUGE difference to watering. The landscapers who did our garden makeover made appreciative remarks as well, I assume they used it for making up cement etc. Worth every penny, but I hated the hose looped around the tap arrangement I had before; the hose was forever kinking and looping back on itself and twisting...

Totally agree with Noodles that the auto wind prevents kinking and makes the hosepipe last longer. I'll happily admit that before I had this, my hospeipe was sometimes left in situ just to have a break from winding the thing up! Now its quite satisfying to start the auto winder and let it do the job much more effectively than I ever did!