Gardening Is Easy With Rehau Wall Mounted Automatic Hose Reel

Advantages: Easy, convinient, flexible, good value for money, made by a top quality brand
Disadvantages: Might have to buy other fittings as these are not very strong.

...from any direction straight from the wall. Also because it's flexible you can water the front or back garden without any leaks even if you use the full mains pressure. If you have a bigger garden you might find that the length isn't long enough, but it's good enough for my garden. You receive a 2 year guarantee for complete peace of mind. You can expect to pay anything from 54.99 GBP although I've seen it sold for more and also for less. The product saves time and energy that you would usually spend rewinding the hose yourself. Even though these are usually sold to trade they are excellent for home use as well. Especially if you do a lot of gardening or just want to treat yourself. I have joint problems and I've found this very helpful because it makes the hose much easier to use. It is quicker and much more convenient than it would be...

Mickie26 11.07.2009 · Read review
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* Want your butt pumping? . .

Advantages: Very good idea, very green.
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...You are reading about a submersible pump by Hozelock, designed to fit into your water butt, and provide a supply of water suitable for watering your garden. Simple idea, and a good one too. It will feed water with enough pressure to provide a decent spray. A very good idea in these days of hose pipe bans. I did a review on a drill operated pump, not a bad idea I thought, a cheap option, especially if you only have a limited amount to shift, although someone suggested that a drill operated pump is a bit of a waste, why not get a real pump? Good thinking, good point. I have baled out strip footings with a bucket before now, and must say any sort of pump is an improvement. A proper submersible one is ideal. I must admit I was thinking of adapting my drill operated gizmo to fit my water butt, but having used one of these, I know which...

smudgeybabes 27.01.2008 (26.01.2008) · Read review
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Review of Hozelock Water Butt Pump

* All hands to the pump . .

Advantages: Good for small jobs.
Disadvantages: Has limited use.

.... The pump is designed to be used at 3000 revolutions per minute, and will handle liquids and semi solids. The inlet and outlets are both half inch bore, and are fitted with quick release couplings. If you have a garden pond that needs emptying from time to time, of you are digging footings that tend to fill with water, then this may be just the job. You will find many more uses for these pumps once you have one, and you will find they get borrowed a lot. I have used mine for pumping out a cellar, emptying cisterns, as well as flooded boats. As for the noise, well, they are as noisy as the electric drill that drives them. They are self priming, and will lift up to about 3 metres. These are also Made in Britain. As long as you accept their use is limited, you will be more than happy with them. They are on sale at a lot of places nowadays...

smudgeybabes 24.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sealey Water Pump Drill Powered

* All hands to the pumps . .

Advantages: Portable, self sufficient.
Disadvantages: Requires checking for fuel & blockages.

...atmospheric pressure will act on the surface of the liquid, and push it up the hose. This means that you can theoretically lift water up nearly thirty feet, although in practice it is only 25-ish. On site, you probably only need to lift a couple of feet, so these pumps are very efficient. The higher you need to lift, the less efficient the pump becomes, also the higher you have top push after it has left the pump, (barrier height) again, the more inefficient it is. The engine on these pumps is a four stroke, this means it does not require oil to be added to the fuel mixture. It is just like topping your car up with petrol. The engine size about the same as a lawn mower, and they do make exactly the same noise, which is not pleasant. These pumps have a two inch suction hose, and need a filter or strainer, otherwise the pump will clog up...

smudgeybabes 03.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of 2 Centrifugal Water Pump

A solar powered water fountain for the garden.

Advantages: Cheap and easy to set up.
Disadvantages: You need the sun to shine for it to work.

...from an online garden centre who I had used before and it arrived within 5days. The kit comprises of a solar panel measuring 5 ½? x 5?, the pump with 3m of cable, two extension tubes and a choice of three heads and a mounting kit for the panel. Putting together is easy ? just insert the pump, which is cylindrical and about 4? tall, onto the base which is a flat circular ring with a plastic sponge like filter. Depending on the depth of your water you will need one or two extension tubes which are each about 3? long and then decide which fountain head you want. The choices are between a simple stream of water, a narrow spray or a wider spray. The height of the water jet will depend on the strength of the sun. Very bright sun will produce a jet of up to 10? and this becomes less as the sun intensity decreases. Now place the pump in...

perfectlypolished 08.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Smart Solar Sunjet 150 Solar Powered Pond Pump

Amazing flat hose.

Advantages: Compact flat hose, can use when on reel.
Disadvantages: No good when there is a hose pipe ban.

...I have tried a few hose pipes over the years. The standard round hose pipe on a reel with wheels. It kinks and twists and it takes two people to wind it back onto the reel and then finding somewhere to store it because their quite bulky. The springy one was great to start with, then it just stopped springing back. So i was left with a long over stretched hose with no place to store. Then one day i was flicking through the thousands of tv channals we have these days (only about 10 useful) and i saw the Magna Flat Hose. Price was £22.95 from QVC What caught my eye was some huge truck ontop of the hose and the water was still coming out impressive or what. (am i easily impressed or what) So 3 days after ordering my Magna Hose it arrives in a cardboard box. Quickly opening the box and getting out my 75 foot hose i was...

oldwasp 08.04.2006 (12.10.2006) · Read review
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Review of Magna Magna Hose

I have a curly hose! .. Update.

Advantages: See list.
Disadvantages: See list.

...but read cons, If you don't need the flow, then you can join two together, or even more. Easy to stow, no need for a drum. Cons Small diameter (3/8") and all those curls means more friction, so less output. You can't just lay it out & let it water your garden without pegging it down. Just to explain that bit, if you have a normal hose and want to feed a sprinkler forty feet away from the tap, you run the hose to it, turn the tap on, & have a cuppa. With this system, you need to stop the hose from flying back towards the tap, not a great problem but something to be aware of. If your flow is not great then the output will be reduced. Although the length is 50 feet you can only use it practically, up to about 45' - anything more and you are struggling against the "spring" effect. One thing to remember, is that as the plastic hose...

smudgeybabes 06.04.2007 (27.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Hoselock Hoselock Spiral Hose Set

* Send for the Hose Mender! . .

Advantages: Good bit of kit, simple, and effective.
Disadvantages: Not a one.

...This review is on the hose mender by Rehau. You may think you don't need one of these, you may well be right of course. I thought so too, and having messed about in my garage for hours, using bits of copper pipe & Jubilee clips, I finally decided to get the proper kit. The Hose Mender itself is nothing special, it is simply a means of attaching one end of a hose pipe to another, in a short length. It does this very well, and although I have forgotten the price, it can't have been much more than a couple of Pounds. It was easy to do the job. and I have no regrets either, it is just a plastic fitting, nothing more, nothing less, and it is there to do a job, and it does that job very well indeed. You will see cheap and usually very nasty versions of these fittings around, but at this price you may as well go for the Rehau. You...

smudgeybabes 09.09.2008 (13.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of Rehau Hose Mender

Hose me down

Advantages: long, strong and durable
Disadvantages: no attachments as standard

...Being a garden lover and extremely proud of my lovely lawn in most summer months, this year excluded it has required watering on a near daily basis to keep it looking lush and healthy. Not having an outside tap means that I have to run the hose from my kitchen at the back of my house down the garden and when I need to water the front garden, around my house. A long hose was needed and I found the solution in the Rehau Green Lawn 30 metre hose. Made in the traditional style with with no frills attached the Rehau hose is made from an incredibly durable plastic which has an 18 braid reinforced structure to made it feel solid to the touch without water running through it and this reduces kinks and subsequent reductions in water pressure. The only real issue an entry level gardener may experience with the hose when first buying is...

ASBO2000 07.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Rehau Green Lawn Hose 30 Metre 098928

*"Hold my Hose" - Make up your own jokes. .

Advantages: Keeps hose tidy.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...Rehau Garden hose holder. OK, let's get the boring stuff out of the way first. Here is what may loosely called spec. Product Dimensions: Made to hold 100' of standard garden hose. Boxed-product Weight: 168 g Colour green. The Company. The Rehau company's stock in trade is plastic:- http://wwwrehau.co.uk Have a look for yourself. The Company have over 15,000 employees, in more than 170 locations all over the world. The company was founded in the town of Rehau, Germany, in 1948, and has since gone from strength to strength. Rehau is a well known Company, they sell a wide range of garden products. I have done one or two more reviews on these products, so if you are having trouble getting to sleep they could be just what you are looking for. Jobs. As for employment, they offer jobs at locations in the UK, as well as in...

smudgeybabes 09.07.2008 (04.09.2008) · Read review
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