{"id":6130,"date":"2015-10-16T19:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2015-10-16T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:29:04","slug":"product-review-expandable-garden-hoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/product-review-expandable-garden-hoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesmar Homes Product Review: Expandable Garden Hoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1 fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"fusion-row\">\n<p>Occasionally in this space we\u2019ll use and review a common household consumer product, so you don\u2019t have to. Today, we\u2019re talking about the oh-so-slick, as-seen-on-TV, magical auto-expanding garden hoses.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen the commercials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\">\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"player_1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87sRVk1f7ik?autoplay=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;wmode=opaque\" name=\"fitvid0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-2 fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"fusion-row\">\n<h2 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"40\">The Pitch<\/h2>\n<p>That ad is for the Pocket Hose, which is the brand we purchased (though we went for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockethosetopbrass.com\/\">Pocket Hose Top Brass.<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s a garden hose that expands like a sea monkey when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/chesmar-news\/a-chesmar-homes-how-to-make-your-own-slip-and-slide\">filled with water<\/a>\u00a0and, as a bonus, is unkinkable. Because it shrinks back to size when the water pressure is let out, storage is easier, too. It\u2019s so slick you\u2019ll never need a regular garden hose again.<\/p>\n<h2 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"40\">The Reality<\/h2>\n<p>Reality is pretty close to the pitch, actually. The hose works pretty much like it claims it does. You hook it up to a faucet just like any other hose. The only difference is that it comes with a built-in valve on the open end. This is immensely convenient when you\u2019re actually using the hose, but the reason it\u2019s on the hose is that, when closed, it allows the water pressure to fill and lengthen the hose. When you\u2019re ready, open the valve and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/chesmar-news\/a-chesmar-homes-how-to-landscaping-101\">spray away<\/a>. Or hook up at attachment. The convenient thing about the valve, however, is that it has at least as much dexterity as any spray nozzle \u2014 unless you really like a trigger-style spray nozzle, you won\u2019t need one with this hose.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is, it\u2019s just about impossible to accidentally kink this hose, and it\u2019s a litlte bit of a challenge to do it on purpose.<\/p>\n<h2 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"40\">Yeah, Buts<\/h2>\n<p>Yeah, it expands quickly and the valve is super convenient, but it doesn\u2019t quite retract into a tiny coil the way the ad makes it seem. Don\u2019t get us wrong: It does retract, and storing it is easy, but it does need a little encouragement to get it shriveled all the way back up.<\/p>\n<p>And, yeah, the product is pretty slick, but we\u2019re wondering how it\u2019s going to hold up over time. Although the product seems pretty durable, we\u2019re not sure whether it\u2019s going to hold up over time the way a regular ol\u2019 green garden hose would.<\/p>\n<h2 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"40\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Given that we live in a country where defendants are presumed innocent until proven otherwise, we can\u2019t hold our long-term durability concerns against the product. That being the case, we consider this an improvement upon the traditional garden hose, and can\u2019t come up with a compelling argument against it. It totally solves the No. 1 problem with garden hoses (kinking), and mostly solves the No. 2 problem (storage). Besides, the valve is so good we don\u2019t even bother with spray nozzles.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-foot version we bought at Home Depot cost $29.97, which is about three times as much as a bottom-shelf rubber hose, but less expensive than a top-end contractor\u2019s hose. We consider that a fair price for a good product.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally in this space we\u2019ll use and review a common household consumer product, so you don\u2019t have to. Today, we\u2019re talking about the oh-so-slick, as-seen-on-TV, magical auto-expanding garden hoses. You\u2019ve seen the commercials. The Pitch That ad is for the Pocket Hose, which is the brand we purchased (though we went for the\u00a0Pocket Hose Top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}