I used to use 5/8 garden hose for Soft Wash application when I fisrt started out and switche to 225' of poly braid. I use 5/8" for vegetation watering and water feed to the pressure washer but for some reason they would always form bubles and burst. Not sure if it was the customers needing a pressure reducing valve at the service connection or I was buying crappy hose. (most likely crappy hose).

I was tired of buying new hoses every year so I went with the 3/4" beasts this year and wish I hadn't. They cost about $100 for 100' and they are nearly impossible to roll by hand and never loosen up and the main reason I needed a reel.

If you need a hose that can withstand being run over by a tank than these are the hoses to buy. If your going to hand roll out and roll up hose two or three times a day then the old trusty 5/8" is the way to go. When I go back to the 5/8" I will check out the Summit reels you mentioned. I have always had my poly hose on a reel and from now on, no more hand rolling garden hose!

Thanks for the heads up on the Summit reels Hank!

Doug Rucker wrote:

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If you ever want to buy a good hose reel that will uphold to chem's, even BLEACH, look at Hannay. And better yet look to tru green or other fertilizing companies. Whenever they trade their fleets out they usually sell them with everything on it. But if you wan to buy just the hose reel set up you can. They are usually dual stack and one is electric and they still work great. I have an old Hannay I got off them that was about 7 years old, all rusty looking and all, we have run tons of bleach through it and never a leak.

All our other hose reels we never hook them up through the swivel. The hose reels are simply used for reeling hose.

Ray, that's a great hose reel. We have the same one we use for large commercial jobs.

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For just a water hose reel, I agree. I must have about 500' of 5/8" water hose that hasn't burst yet but has a few bubbles in it but I just keep it rolled up in the garage "incase" I need it ... haha. Sorta hard for me to just toss them when I know I can get a few months out of them.

This 3/4" commercial hose is just about imposible to roll up by hand but the flow is not even comparable to the 5/8" and I haven't had an issue with kinks at all.

Accuwash wrote:

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Hanney makes the absolute best reels in the industry. Cox are getting way better these days too. We will never run chlorine through a reel again. Just too easy to have 100 foot sections and never worry about that leak possibility.

My Kuriyama hoses for roof cleaning have 4 years + on them and stay flexible in the cold. We will be using these for residential water as well. On the skid I have some 3/4 black rubber monster that tries to drag you to your knees when you roll it up.

Pure PVC hose FTW : kuriyama.thomasnet.com/viewitems/reinforced-air-and-water-hose/s-k1231-k1232-k1234-k1236-air-water-hose-1|3001377|1073

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