a hose that won`t knot ?

**s2skimon** · 03-22-2005, 08:30 PM

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 ?

**MongooseGA** · 03-22-2005, 08:33 PM

Flat hose, I believe...

**Bill D** · 03-22-2005, 08:38 PM

There`s a consumer version of a flat hose, an "As Seen on TV" product you can even get in Walgreens

Rollahose

**Eliot Ness** · 03-22-2005, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by Bill D

There`s a consumer version of a flat hose, an "As Seen on TV" product you can even get in Walgreens

Rollahose

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.

**Bill D** · 03-22-2005, 10:21 PM

I do the same. I leave the reel alone.

**MS22** · 03-22-2005, 10:32 PM

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.

**Bill D** · 03-22-2005, 10:34 PM

If those are the ones I`m think of,they`re in the $40+ range

**MS22** · 03-22-2005, 10:40 PM

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.

**Bill D** · 03-22-2005, 10:42 PM

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?

**Thomas Dekany** · 03-22-2005, 10:59 PM

I just saw one at Wal Mart for $17.00 - they claim that iit is the last hose you`ll ever buy.

**Eliot Ness** · 03-22-2005, 11:13 PM

Originally posted by Bill D

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?

:chuckle:

Here`s the other thread where they mention some good hoses:

http://autopia.org/forums/showthread...highlight=hose

**imported_perry** · 03-22-2005, 11:20 PM

Originally posted by Eliot Ness

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.

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.

**sgo** · 03-23-2005, 12:10 AM

I`ve picked up some good hoses at Costco.

**foxtrapper** · 03-23-2005, 09:16 AM

The red agricultural hoses you buy at a farm supply store.

**Accumulator** · 03-23-2005, 01:16 PM

I`e used a lot of "good" hoses, including the red (sp? "Swan"

"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.