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Garden hose
"MiamiCuse" wrote: I have two of the home depot variety "kink free" garden hoses. They are far from kink free, in fact they kink all the time when you stretch them out. When you roll them back up you have to keep flipping the hose the right way so it won't kink. All brand new hose is prone to kinking. Hose needs to be broken in, so that it loses it's factory "memory" (from being tightly wound in its sale mode), with use it will become softer and more flexible (lower quality hose may never become soft and flexible, and in fact over time tends to harden). And when you say "roll them back up" do you mean on the ground or on a hose reel? Winding hose on the grond automatically causes hose to twist, whech will caue it to kink in use. It's best to use a hose reel, and still there is a proper way to wind hose on a reel. However, I have a very old hose probably more than 15 years I found in this garage and it never kinks. It does not kink because it does not flatten not even a little bit. I think it's made of rubber. Are those better hoses than the modern day vinyl hoses? Rubber hoses are not better, they're different... they're more abrasion resistant and can better withstand being constantly driven over... but they are less flexible and are much heavier to drag around than vinyl hose. Were I going to be using a hose mostly over a paved area and/or where there are sharp protruding objects like inside a factory building, and over reletively short distances I'd choose rubber... for garden and lawn areas I'd choose vinyl. Generally for home use vinyl hose is a better choice. For commercial use rubber hose is generally a better choice; rubber hose costs more but can withstand the rigors of hard use and abuse much better than vinyl. |
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