[jr windows]

Hi All,

Had my first 100m of microbore streamline for six months before it started kinking and twisting. I bought a new roll from another supplier and after a week it started kinking so I spoke to the supplier and they sent me another roll. I have had this one three days and it is already kinking enough to stop the flow of water. Any ideas, or am I doing something wrong? I have the flow control with the red tap on it and quick off connectors.

Thanks, Jason

[Clear Vision]

You must be doing something wrong!

Mine is over 1 year old and has never kinked!

Got mine from cleantech

[jr windows]

All i do is pull it off the reel and drag it round the House ? Not all the 100m just as much as i need and then wind it back up ?

[Clear Vision]

Strange one!

Maybe its a poor batch?

Where did you purchase it from?

[jeff1]

Had mine since December last year and no problems with mine.

[jr windows]

Gardiners, Great people. It seem to be coiling the opposite way to how it is on the reel and kinking, Its doing my head in.

[Clear Vision]

It would do my head in too!

Speak to alex. He will sort it out! 

[jeff1]

You haven't wound it to Loosely  on the reel have you?? I found if mine gets to loose it will coil occasionally.

Just unwind it all and rewind it back onto your reel and give that a try.

[NWH]

Do you pull it STRAIGHT off the hose reel and not through the floor,feeding through the floor can kill a length of microbore in no time,also do you use a varistream.With microbore the varistream needs to be adjusted with the blue dial inside the unit itself,i had lots of prblems when using microbore and now use minibore with no problems.

[Davew]

Would it make a difference if it was wound and unwound empty? If it was full of water and pressurised I doubt if it could kink?

[Sir Squeaky]

I took a big chunk out of mine sometime recently.

I've noticed a small square where you can see the clear inner of it, and it's thin.
Must have been yanking it around a sharp corner of brick or something.

[jr windows]

I pull it off the reel and on to the floor outside, then walk round the house to each window. I dont have a varistream i use a return to tank system. It is not as bad in the morning but the more you use it the worse it gets. I will ring the supplier just wanted advise from you guys n gals.

Thanks Jason

[jr windows]

Hi All,
I have taken a couple of pics to show you my problems

[jr windows]

here's the third pic

[jr windows]

And as the day goes on the heat seems to make the kinks and twists worse.

[jr windows]

And some more ?

[john tomkins]

Thats your problem right there, unreeling the hose onto the floor leaves it in "rings" then pulling the "rings" out around the house leaves those kinks as in your photo.
If you just reel the hose straight off the hosereel(dont pile it on the floor first)  you'll find it won't do it

[jr windows]

I have tried that but it didn't make any difference and the hose kinks just the same when I am reeling back in. It seems as the hose gets more flexible as it gets warmer.

[john tomkins]

If you are pulling it straight off the reel and reeling it straight back on again it won't kink.
Doing what you have done just creates twists in the hose and will still be there when you reel it back in, you'll now have to unwind it totally and twist the hose to get all the kinks out then it wont (shouldn't) happen again

[jr windows]

So, why did my first streamline microbore last 7 months and these two rolls last less than a week each? I have been using the same method for 8 months.

Thanks,  Jason