Spec me a hosepipe?

[danlightbulb]

Hozelock ultramax and brass fittings.

Ok that seems to set the quality bar. £44 for 25mx12.5mm. But Amazon also have 15mmx25m for £41? I take it 15mm is overkill for household use?

£44 is a bit much still id ideally like to drop to £30 ish and get the same quality.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Hozelock ultramax and brass fittings.

The only problem with using brass connectors on hoses is that all the attachments have to be metal as well or the sharp edges inside of the hose connectors with tear them apart in short order.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Ok that seems to set the quality bar. £44 for 25mx12.5mm. But Amazon also have 15mmx25m for £41? I take it 15mm is overkill for household use?

£44 is a bit much still id ideally like to drop to £30 ish and get the same quality.

15mm sounds overkill right until you have a pond to fill.

 

[BennyC]

Ok that seems to set the quality bar. £44 for 25mx12.5mm. But Amazon also have 15mmx25m for £41? I take it 15mm is overkill for household use?

£44 is a bit much still id ideally like to drop to £30 ish and get the same quality.

The amount of deliberating you've done over this, I would just buy the best I could afford and move on with my life I value my time more than the £10-15 difference.

 

[aVdub]

The amount of deliberating you've done over this, I would just buy the best I could afford and move on with my life I value my time more than the £10-15 difference.

Perhaps you should purchase this for the OP and end all this horror right now

 

[WJA96]

Ok that seems to set the quality bar. £44 for 25mx12.5mm. But Amazon also have 15mmx25m for £41? I take it 15mm is overkill for household use?

£44 is a bit much still id ideally like to drop to £30 ish and get the same quality.

The hose is just the conduit for the water. That sounds obvious and it’s what everyone forgets.

Unless you have 15mm or 19mm fittings end to end then you just end up filling the pipe and the restriction is whatever you plug into the hose at the other end.

I have a 12l/minute pressure washer. A 12.5mm hose will not carry enough water in 1 minute to feed that pressure washer. So I ended up with a 19mm hose and 19mm fittings including a 25.4mm tap.

If you don’t have everything matching then the first point in the path of the water that is smaller becomes a restrictor and may as well not have bothered. So make sure your hose fittings are all 15mm, your nozzle is 15mm, your sprinkler is 15mm or otherwise you may as well have just bought the 12.5mm hose. And there is almost nothing available in 15mm beyond the basics. And what is available is VERY expensive.

If you buy a high capacity hose (15 or 19mm) and you then use it with a 12.5mm sprinkler, you‘re just lugging around a huge amount of extra weight. You’ll get no more water through it. If you have extreme mains pressure, you might see a slight increase in hose pipe pressure at the end, but it’s unlikely you’d notice it.

Just buy a good quality 12.5mm unless you have some extreme requirement (like a massive pressure washer).

 

[WJA96]

15mm sounds overkill right until you have a pond to fill

Yes, so long as it’s 15mm end to end it will move substantially more water. Most domestic outside taps are only 12.5mm though.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Bought one of these a few years ago. Much better than any of the cheap junk I'd spent previous years messing about with. Great quality thick strong hose. Solid housing, smart mechanism.

Anyone saying Hozelock isn't any good anymore is buying the cheapest stuff they sell.

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[aVdub]

Bought one of these a few years ago. Much better than any of the cheap junk I'd spent previous years messing about with. Great quality thick strong hose. Solid housing, smart mechanism.

Anyone saying Hozelock isn't any good anymore is buying the cheapest stuff they sell.

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That looks perfect for what the OP was looking to spend

£155.95
PRP £313.33
Save £157.38 (50% OFF)

 

[jellybeard999]

I bought a Claber hosepipe a few years ago and found it better than your bog standard hozelock for the same money.

Claber Kiros Reel with 30m Hose

Compact hose reel, which can be hung from the wall with the specific brackets or transported wherever you wish, resting it stably on the ground. COMPLETE SET (30 M OF 1/2” HOSE) READY TO USE CAN BE WALL-MOUNTED COMPLETE WITH WALL BRACKETS

www.keengardener.co.uk

I've found all hosepipe kinks to some degree, but I've never bought any of the mega expensive hoses linked above.

 

[Cornubia]

Hozelock Ultimate is what I've used here for the past 5 years without any complaints along with brass fittings.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

That looks perfect for what the OP was looking to spend

Sometimes spending more in the first place is a better option long term. Wish I'd bought a better quality hose earlier, would have saved a load of cheap junk going to waste.

 

[aVdub]

Sometimes spending more in the first place is a better option long term. Wish I'd bought a better quality hose earlier, would have saved a load of cheap junk going to waste.

I agree and I do the same, but the OP was hoping to spend a lot less than what you quoted.

 

[chaparral]

Bought one of these a few years ago. Much better than any of the cheap junk I'd spent previous years messing about with. Great quality thick strong hose. Solid housing, smart mechanism.

Anyone saying Hozelock isn't any good anymore is buying the cheapest stuff they sell.

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This is what am looking at buying (but the 30metre one)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Auto-Reel-Hose-Yellow/dp/B078ZSXBCM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1E7RPGPTXSZ0P&keywords=hozelock+30+metre+auto&qid=1683581057&sprefix=hozelock+30metre+auto%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-2

I fitted a 25metre one of these at work a weeks ago

 

[Sin_Chase]

Im my personal experience Hozelock is trash.

I went for a 35m Gardena retractable which has been solid. Although, for the people who think £25 quid for a hose is too much the price I paid will make them weep!

 

[dave28]

NTS brand are worth it although i bought a cheap pipe about 8 years ago and it was tough as nails and i still use it.
Dont remember the brand but i think it was TW.

The sun and freezing it what kills them in the end in my experience, they go brittle or stiff etc...

 

[JayMax]

A vote for Gardena here, the only hose and fittings I buy after multiple failures of Hozelock rubbish.
You could spend £25 on some cheap kinky hose, but you won't be satisfied for long before spending more money on better quality hose.
And Gardena is the best imo.

 

[MattTheTall77]

Im my personal experience Hozelock is trash.

I went for a 35m Gardena retractable which has been solid. Although, for the people who think £25 quid for a hose is too much the price I paid will make them weep!

I finally picked one up from Costco last week after hankering after one for years, much nicer than my previous manual Hozelock reel.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

I finally picked one up from Costco last week after hankering after one for years, much nicer than my previous manual Hozelock reel.

What's the cost? I bought a gardena basket hose and it seems good but Amazon reviews werent spectacular.

 

[MattTheTall77]

What's the cost? I bought a gardena basket hose and it seems good but Amazon reviews werent spectacular.

£144 for the 35 metre, cheaper than anywhere else I could find for that length.

There is a fairly loud ‘clack’ noise when pulling out so not one for early mornings, and there’s a reasonable amount of resistance when pulling it out, but I suppose it is a lot of hose. I haven’t tried another auto reel before so can’t compare difference in resistance.