What To Consider When Buying A Garden Hose Reel

There are a number of aspects to think about when picking a garden reel for your individual wishes

. A number of these are mentioned below in a nutshell form and should be covered in the future articles in more detail. A few of these are fairly obvious however there are a few things that many people fail to take under consideration when finding the best reel.

Where will you position your garden reel?

So you are considering purchasing a hose reel for your garden. Perhaps you have walked thru 1 or 2 huge DYI or Hardware stores or even checked out a few sites online and are perhaps a bit baffled about what type you should buy and importantly where are you going to place it?

Where you are going to mount your garden reel requires attentive consideration.

What practical length of hose do you need relative to where you install it? What area of garden or grass would you like to effectively cover with your reel?

Is your present inlet water supply constraining you on where you can mount your garden hose reel? The possibilities are the position of your water supply out of doors to be used with a garden hose was randomly set by the builder of your home or the prior owner, or if by you then likely from a set of plans - let's face up to it the garden/lawn area was either not destined or has changed.

So if the length of hose on a sort of reel you are considering isn't quite going to offer you the cover you want - what's the solution?

Example - you'll have two, three or more water supply points around your place - usually most homes have at least two - one at the front and one at the rear of the house. These outlets would possibly not be in the best position for watering your garden - I know mine are not and I designed my house!

Example two - I have got a water supply on the southward-facing side at the front of my home, about a metre from the corner of the house. There's no garden on that section of the southerly side of the house - the gardens are on the west side!

So mounting a hose reel right next to that outlet means I'm pulling the hose around a corner - not awfully practical or reasonable right?

So the solution for me was to run some poly water pipe from the outlet, along the ground (ultimately I pulled up my pavers and buried it) to a point on the west side of the house where the garden is.

I fitted a riser and an on/off valve and then mounted my garden reel in the very best position for me to get the finest potency and least hassles. It is simple and inexpensive to do - you do not want to pay a plumber to try this for you - some poly pipe, some fittings and the job is done!!

A garden reel should be offering you efficiencies right? - if not then you might use an old auto wheel edge.

Tip - ensure you mount the reel at an appropriate "labor-saving" height - a height which won't have you bending over or reaching up to operate it.

Take a little time to measure the mounting position meticulously before installing the reel to a wall or post or other fixing.

The best position is for the hose as it rewinds onto the reel to be at roughly your hip height ( this thinks in hand crank reels the crank is centre line with the reel which ought really to be the case - for spring rewind reels this can be a fixed ).

by: James Rathbone

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