[Morph]

I'd like to do a poll but I don't know all the sizes available.

However, What size/type hose do you use and why?

I'm sure I am not the only one who might learn something from this.

Pj

[Morph]

I know, I know...Saturday night 8.25pm.  What a question!!!

When you feel like it.....

Next week will do

Pj

[kingfisher]

Tricoflex Iv been using it for six months and its never kinked once.

 Dont like kinky hose part from fishnets.

Kev

[Alex Gardiner]

microbore, 11.5mm od, 6mm id.

doesn't get caught up, lighter, easier to wind, and more controlled flow rate, more hose on your reel.

The list goes on. Thats why I have been using this for 3 years now.

Alex

[Famous Last Words]

15mm garden hose - the mutts' nuts.

[Paul Coleman]

microbore, 11.5mm od, 6mm id.

doesn't get caught up, lighter, easier to wind, and more controlled flow rate, more hose on your reel.

The list goes on. Thats why I have been using this for 3 years now.

Alex

Is it available in yellow? - better visibility to lessen trip hazard.

[Alex Gardiner]

Hi The Shiner,

Yes it is in yellow, we can supply it any colour to order but would only recommend it in yellow for H & S reasons.
Alex

[neil100]

Just got my van back home after having van system installed last week.

I've got 50 meter 1/2" on one reel,

100 mtr microbore on the other in yellow.

Will test both over winter,if microbore is better I will order some more.

Showed my mate it today and he said hes going to switch to microbore.

Facelift who fitted my van system were impressed with the microbore,as they only put on 1/2" hose.

Nel

[Jeff Brimble]

The coloured hoses seem harder than the black which I have been using since 97

[genesis_windows]

6 mm bright blue from cleantech. very strong and doesnt kink. have fitted 60 mtrs onto a hoselock 20mtr reel with room to spare. been using it since april and looks good as new. very heavily used 5 days a week and sometimes saturdays but not if i can help it! 

[Morph]

Thanks so far guys.

I presently use hozelock yellow standard garden hose, but it is a pain winding back up 2 x 50m reels!  Some have said it's harder work on the pump if the bore is narrower.  Is that true really?

[matt]

hozelock micro pipe

10 M's long

i dont like hoses as they drag through dog and cat crap and when you handle the hose it gets on your hands

i keep it as short as possible

[Jeff Brimble]

Matt have a look at a Cordreel
http://pi-inc.com I got one from a caravan supplier £12 half the hose and roll on/off , keeps your hands clean and is fast and light. In practice - it works   

[Alex Gardiner]

Hi Morph,

Technically the pump will have to work harder if your bore is narrower but in reality  they work just fine.

I am on my original flojet pump and it is 5 years old now, it has been pumping through microbore with a flow valve on the pole turning it on and off all the time for the last 3 years.

Alex

[Morph]

Thanks Alex.

Matt, 
On some jobs I agree entirely with you.  Unfortunately I have one day every week where I need 120metres!!  Yep thats right!  That's the nearest I can get.  It's the only practical way.

[Chris Cottrell]

Pj

120 mtrs 

Be easier to build a trolley would it not?

 

[Morph]

If you saw what I have to get round....No..

Pj

[Chris Cottrell]

Hmmm

The mind boggles
I'm gonna be thinking about this all day tommorrow now, I got a few awkward one's but not that bad though

[Alex Gardiner]

120 metres, isn't that far we have one job which has a circumference of 500 metres!!! and you wouldn't catch me pushing a trolley round that far!!

Alex

[Jeff Brimble]

Its not just the distance but the ammount of work, you may get by with say a grab and go unit holding 10-20 litres or a backpack, but for more work a trolley might be needed Then again a Van mount if you have lotd of work at a distance- but then you also need to be able to control at a distance. If you only have a few windows that are far away I would go for the most economical. You dont need a Rolls Royce if a push bike will do.