a hose that won't knot ?

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I'm tired of having my garden hose get into knots after ravelling it and unravelling it on one of those wall mounted mounts from home depot..



is there such a hose that won't knot ?
 
Bill D said:
There's a consumer version of a flat hose, an "As Seen on TV" product you can even get in Walgreens



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I haven't had much luck with those cheap "flat hoses". I bought one and took it to a car show in Indiana and washed my street rod in the hotel parking lot, but it was a real pain to roll back up w/o kinking. The couple that my wife uses for her flowers seem to develop leaks rather quickly also, but for $10 she doesn't seem to mind replacing them because they are a lot lighter than a normal hose. She just coils them up behind the bushes rather than try to roll them back up on the reel they come with.



Since I have to take buckets with me anyway I think this year I'll just drop by the coin-op and use the rinse with my own stuff, or do a QEW in the hotel lot.



I have seen some garden hoses at Wal-Mart that aren't supposed to kink, and there was another thread here a while back on good hoses.
 
Lowes and Home Depot carry hoses that are reinforced with a metal mesh layer between the inside and outside. I believe that they come in 50', 100', and 150' lengths and are actually labelled for construction/contractors. A friend of mine has one like this and it came threaded with a brass hook-and-release valve. It never does kink but the downside is their price which is absurdly high.
 
I can not remember the actual price but I want to say it was just over a hundred dollars. It is 100' long and came with all of the brass adapters and whatnot but it was still alot for a hose.



Edit: Just talked with the owner, it was $60.
 
Wow, I haven't seen that one,at any hardware store for that matter, but I will keep a look out for it just to see what this $100 hose looks like. Do you think Home Depot may have gotten a Griot's shipment by mistake? ;)
 
Eliot Ness said:
Since I have to take buckets with me anyway I think this year I'll just drop by the coin-op and use the rinse with my own stuff, or do a QEW in the hotel lot.
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Swing through Muncie, I bet my mom would give up her driveway for an hour or two.. I bet the neighbors that share the driveway wouldn't mind a couple hot rods :) The front end would be slightly less buggy when you get to Gas City, probably get away with just S&W.



Mom got tired of rolling the hose up, so she bought a water powered auto-reeler from Lowes for like $60. Flip the handle and the hose winds right up! I must admit, it makes life much easier.
 
I'e used a lot of "good" hoses, including the red (sp? "Swan" :confused: "Swann" sp?) agricultural ones. I have the exorbitantly priced Griot's ones too (hey, they were a gift).



*Any* hose will kink/knot from time to time. But the "better" hoses don't do it as often (at least when they're new). I'd just by the best Flexogen or Sears hoses you can get locally. Get as large a diameter as you can find and take advantage of the lifetime replacement warranty.



I had some of the flat fabric "fireman's" hoses. They had more problems than any other hoses I've ever used! I sent them back, huge disappointment, those.
 
blkZ28Conv said:
I like my Sears/Craftman RUBBER hose with the lifetime warranty. Does not cramp or tangle when under pressure. :xyxthumbs
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Me too, they are very resistant to knotting, though any hose can knot if you twist it just right. Just make sure you get the all-rubber one. They are great hoses. :)
 
Aurora40 said:
Just make sure you get the all-rubber one...
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This seems to be the most important factor. I *will* say that I've taken full advantage of the Sear's replacement warranty though, and more than once. In a garage environment I seem to go through hoses no matter what I buy.
 
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