Visit www.amazon.co.uk for more information about this product The ultimate in hose management, this wall mounted reel combines a self layering mechanism with automatic hose rewind. An internal spring system does the work, allowing the user to walk the hose effortlessly back to the reel, while the self layering mechanism feeds it neatly back onto the drum. A simple ratchet ensures that the hose only rewinds when you want it to. The wall bracket and pivot tube allow the reel to swivel through 180 degrees to supply the hose at any angle from the wall.

Visit www.amazon.co.uk for more information about this product This Hozelock fully enclosed wall-mounted Fast Reel is perfect for medium to large gardens. The reel’s wall-mounting means you can fix it next to the water supply and only unravel the length of hose you need. Its fully enclosed design means it is not left out in the elements to suffer from direct exposure to frost, and protects the hose from wear and tear.

the water pressure in my house varies from room to room. I have a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath split-level house. The water pressure in the 1/2 bath (lower level), laundry room, and one full bath (hallway) is fine. The water pressure in the kitchen and shower in the other full is extremely low/weak. In addition, the water in the kitchen tastes like you are drinking from a garden hose (tastes fine from all other faucets). Would replacing the faucet in the kitchen help with the pressure and/or taste? I have a pretty basic gooseneck faucet on there now (american standard). I tried replacing the hoses in the kitchen last year and switched from white to stainless steel. That seemed to help the taste initially, but the water now tastes as bad as it ever has.

If this would not fix the taste and/or pressure, any ideas what might? Once again, the pressure and taste are fine throughout the house, with the pressure being low only in the kitchen and one shower and taste bad in only the kitchen. Thanks in advance for any tips!

Hello All!
Due to some recent life changes, for the first time in my life… I had the task of lawn care. And I failed, massively.

I hired someone to come and mow once a week, and thought that was good enough. Wow, was I wrong. My sprinkler system recently broke and I put off repairing it, always thinking "Next week..". From the time of noticing that the lawn looked a bit yellow – to it looking like stray hay – completely snuck up on me (although most anyone else would probably see it coming). I never realized what was involved in caring for my lawn until I had to do it by myself. I previously thought it looked nice when I looked out the window because it just naturally grew that way ~ all pretty and green. Hey, it’s grass!

So moving forward, the mailman told me it’s dead. A delivery guy this week laughed and said it’s just ‘dormant’ from the heat and lack of water. So my question is: Can I get it *out* of this dormancy?

I guess what I have is Kentucky Blue Grass. Hooking up hoses to sprinklers, I’ve watered to the point of probably flooding it the past 3 days in a row, dumping around 7000 gallons of water per day, by my (very) calculated estimates (decent sized front yard + X-large back yard). Each evening, before I begin the watering, I put my hand into the grass, and it’s never still wet from before, so I proceed. And if my mind isn’t playing tricks on me.. I’ve noticed a few stray green blades shining in through the yellow hay.

Honestly, as shallow as it sounds, the distinct division that is drawn between my god-awful yellow grass, and the surrounding neighbors’ manicured green lawns is causing me a lot of embarrassment right now, to the point that I’m almost avoiding eye contact when I pull out of my garage each day, ha. People walking their dogs have stopped and asked, "So what happened??" which doesn’t make it any better. And my co-worker asking if someone set my yard on fire, made me secretly want to punch her. It almost looks like someone poured bleach in a perfect line between our lawns, and I feel like a complete idiot for letting this happen.

So I guess my question is ~ should I continue on with my excessive watering for several more days and see if there’s hope of bringing it out of dormancy? Or do I cut back to only watering every other day pretty soon? I’m open to following any plan that might help. Thanks so much for reading my very long question.
Hi – and thanks so soo much. To the first poster, CC, I live in Nebraska, and I didn’t know there was such a thing as winter grass that would start growing!

As for grass seeds and replanting, that’s always an option. I envisioned that taking a lonnng time, but maybe it doesn’t. I’d be up for this..

Regarding the ‘fake lawn’ – I don’t know what it is yet, and I love it already, hahaha! But yes, I do have a dog.

How many days would it take if you were using both hoses?

We have an above ground vinyl pool with a small pump. The two hoses attach through the vinyl walls into the pump. One hose goes to the section where the filter spins and the other hose into the solid motor part. It has a paper filter and spins when it’s running. I keep reading you have to vacuum to waste to remove fine sediment on the bottom of the pool. How do you do that??? There’s no option on this small pump accept plug it in.
Our only option for vacuuming has been this accessory that attaches to the garden hose and tap water which only stirs this fine sediment around and doesn’t remove it creating a mess of cloudy greenish water. Tried using algaecide and other chemical treatments but unless the existing sediment can be removed the bottom of the pool is awful looking and the water is greenish like lake water. This is a very basic pool set up with no fancy pump with options to use sand or whatever else there is out there. How do we solve this issue?? Please let me know. T

I’ve weeded and amended the soil in my garden. Now I want to put drip irrigation in, landscape fabric, and microbark. I want to put plants in at a later date. If the irrigation tubing (not the emitter hoses) is under the fabric there’s the advantage of them being out of sight but the disadvantages of not knowing where they are when you walk in the garden and not being able to get to parts that may be leaking. Thanks!

I have a standard looking water spout on the exterior of my house. We’re going away for vacation next month so I purchased a timer to water the garden. The issue is that no matter what I use on the spout (timer, 3 different hoses) the spout seems to leak. What are my options to fix the connection from leaking when there is pressure? Replacing the spout is out of the question as I’m in a rental. The pressure will be there as it will need to work with a timer.

Thanks for any help.

Hi everyone

I have been through lots of hozelock hoses over the past 2 years – they were their ‘top of the range’ ones and kinked, twisted, slipped off the reel constantly and cracked all over the place and I have now been given away to someone who wants an irrigation system! ARGH I didnt even use them that bloomin often!

Ive got a 100 foot garden so it needs to be long but I really want a good one that will last 5 – 10 years and Im happy to splash out on a professional hose set.

Im just not sure what makes / types are good?

If someone could advise me Id be very grateful!

Thank you in advance

I save /mo. on our water heating bill by installing a solar pre-heater made of 200′ of garden hose on my roof. From Amazon I bought two 100′ GILMORE 3/4 inch FLEXOGEN hoses (withstands 500 psi pressure), laid it out n garage roof, hooked it to the cold water pipe that goes to gas waterheater. Now all cold water to the waterheater is solar pre-heated. I installed 3 shut- off valves, in case I want to take the solar heater out of the system. One at the beginning of the garden hose loop, one at the end, and one in the coldwater line between the beginning of the solar heater loop and the end. It cost me 0 for the hose and less than for the rest.
At savings in gas a month, it will have paid for itself in l0 months. To use mostly solar-heated water, we don’t use hot water before 10 or after 4.
I did this 3 months ago and the gas waterheater hasn’t been on since. The solar heated water is 135F, and the gas waterheater is at 125F. We always get 135F water at the faucet