Help! What hosepipe do you recommend?

I've ordered the R599. Garden Master Hose Pipe Kink-Free (25metre) 25M roll from Takealot, as it seemed the easiest one to get without leaving the house to catch covid.

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Will update with how long this one lasts once it arrives on Tuesday.
 
HavocXphere said:
Haven't seen ones with material like that before. Think you're just buying too cheap tbh.

The better ones have a mesh thing going - you can see it if the end points aren't on

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Also for rolling them up use the same technique as for audio cables like so


Decent ones aren't likely to get damaged by pressure either. The fitting / connection to tap is likely to pop off first
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The 2nd green one has a few layers - didn't help though.

Black inner tube, then white material, then a mesh, then the green outer bit.
From what I can tell, the black tube bursts and leaks then the rest opens up. Have to ask the builder what one he bought next time he's back, see if i can take it back, I think was whatever was nearest the till at Buco..

The blue one was onedayonly, while I could hassle to send it back, probably too much effort. Was an ebucks purchase anyway, so not too worried about it.
 
lsheed_cn said:
The 2nd green one has a few layers - didn't help though.

Black inner tube, then white material, then a mesh, then the green outer bit.
From what I can tell, the black tube bursts and leaks then the rest opens up. Have to ask the builder what one he bought next time he's back, see if i can take it back, I think was whatever was nearest the till at Buco..

The blue one was onedayonly, while I could hassle to send it back, probably too much effort. Was an ebucks purchase anyway, so not too worried about it.
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Thank you for warning the others.

TRAMONTII = shite. Caveat Emptor.
 
grim101 said:
Forget any hose pipes you have bought. Go to your local hardware of Coop and buy yourself a black drag line.

My workers use it the whole day in sun and salt, and after 8 years they stopped the 4 ton forklift on it and it Burts. Just cut it and mend it.
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What is that type of piping typically used or designed for?

bwana said:
Then don't open the tap all the way. They're accommodating like that. ;)
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Unfortunately that only reduces the flow rate not the pressure.

The op blowing 2 pipes in such short time and having a 50mm supply inlet I have a feeling a pressure reducer may be required or pipes are perhaps going to carry on popping.
 
airborne said:
What is that type of piping typically used or designed for?



Unfortunately that only reduces the flow rate not the pressure.

The op blowing 2 pipes in such short time and having a 50mm supply inlet I have a feeling a pressure reducer may be required or pipes are perhaps going to carry on popping.
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Farmers, and schools use them for irrigation. Come in 2 sizes, same as normal hose pipes. Also uses same fittings you use as normal hose pipes.
 
something else is at play here this cant be water pressure alone. my neighbours borehole pressure literally makes the hosepipe climb several meters in the air and it has never done this to our hosepipes, let alone in such a short period. that first hosepipe looks like kark, but the second doesn't look all that terrible
 
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I went to R James Hardware in Wynberg and bought 70m of 19mm green reinforced hose. 70m because it reaches from the well-point to the front of the house, out the gate into the street

The gardener has been shown how to store it - in a figure 8 and in the shade.

Figure 8 means it does not kink when unwinding. Its 3 years old now and as good as new

Pressure does not degrade when using a large diameter pipe over 70m
 
grim101 said:
Farmers, and schools use them for irrigation. Come in 2 sizes, same as normal hose pipes. Also uses same fittings you use as normal hose pipes.
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How flexible is that hose same as normal garden hosepipe just stronger?
 
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