FLEXZILLA GARDEN HOSES - 1 YEAR REVIEW
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Viewers of my previous videos requested that I do a one year review to show how they are holding up. I am harsh to my hoses. See how they held up.
Flexzilla HFZG12050QN Hose kit, 1/2" x 50', Green www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Flexzilla Garden Hose, 5/8 in. x 100 ft., Heavy Duty, Lightweight, Drinking Water Safe - HFZG5100YW
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I just received my hoses. thank you for this demonstration.
No problem. Happy Gardening!
Thank you so much for the detailed review.
My pleasure! Happy gardening!
Thanks for an excellent review. Going out to buy mine today
Have fun and happy gardening!
Great video! Appreciate the thorough review, helped my purchasing decision! Thank you!
Glad I could help! These are still going strong other than the stains. Happy Gardening!
Thanks, Chief!!! really needed this! was about to buy the zero g. I'll go with this one.
No worries. Happy gardening!!!
Very nice video and review Chris! That scale came in handy! 😊😊
Yes it did. Daughter bought it for checking luggage.
Agree...I have owned two for one year now...They are great hoses. Light & flexible
Was using mine a couple minutes ago doing some watering and still working great. Happy Gardening!
Thanks for the review of this hose!
No problem. Happy Gardening!
Good review. Thanks Chief
You bet! Happy Gardening!
Thanks for the awesome review Chief! I was on the fence, but I'm gonna pick up some of these. Semper fortis!
Any time!
Don't do it, they're garbage.
I didn't know there were hoses like this. I've seen the flexy, stretchy like hose that I thought of getting but these seem stronger than those. Every time I water my garden it's a full body battle rope workout that is probably doing me some good though. 😂
I know what you mean about the battle. These sure makes watering easier.
Thank you for the review I just bought two 50 ft today😄
Hope you enjoy it! I was using mine today, 3rd year and still going strong. Almost hit it with the lawn mower but the bright green stopped me. Happy Gardening!
Good review man! I have flexzilla hoses, had to put them over our gravel driveway as I am watering some trees we planted 400 feet from the house. I got a hose reel cart to help, but these Flexzilla hoses are lightweight, I'm always surprised when I'm handling them. I'm a mechanic, raise egg layer hens, and new to taking care of plants. My wife has always been the gardener. But I'm excited to be involved in the "tool" buying process. Have a good one!
Mine are still going strong. Even left the 100ft out by accident and it froze while charged. When I got home from work and discovered I left it out, I was surprised my lawn wasn't flooded and no damage to the hose. Happy Gardening (to you wife)!
Thanks! Very helpful.👍🏽👍🏽
Glad it was helpful! Happy gardening!
I have two 50's I bought from kmart in 1988, lifetime guarantee. At 22 years they started to kink just a bit. At 33 years one has a pin hole leak. These have been the best hoses I've ever used, and I have had a couple cheap ones too that are really kinky. So this spring I bought a Flexzilla to try out as I have their air hoses. So time will tell.
Mine are 10% (3 years) toward the 33 years. They probably won't make it to 33 because I am rough on hoses. Happy Gardening!
I have been pretty mean to my hose as well. Still works like a charm :)
Happy gardening!
Just watched both of your videos. Bought me a medium duty Walmart hose and it kinked every two seconds. Every kink I’d remove would create 2-3 more kinks. Taking it back and getting one of these!
Sometimes the cheap ones are good enough for the job at hand, other times we have to do the research and get what works best. Happy gardening!
@@CMooreStarts I ended up finding a teknor apex “Zero G” 100 ft hose at Walmart on clearance for $18. Figured it could save me a bit of money. I figured why not. Got it home and it works great. It doesn’t kink and moves a lot of water. We will see how it holds up over time. I wish they would have had 2. I may still get me a shorter flexzillla for the front yard.
Hopefully the zero G holds up better than the one I wanted to give a full test too. Good luck and happy gardenin.
Thanks for the review! Was in need of a new garden hose because the regular ones sold at Home Depot rip wayyyy to easily and its pretty annoying. 😀
Glad I could help! Happy gardening!
I have been using a 50' 5/8" hose for just over 4 years. Love it ,no problems. Will get more as the rest need replacing.
I own 3 flexzilla hoses now. My original one I purchased back in 2015(had green colored ends), purchased same hose but came with grey colored ends back in 2020, and in 2021 purchased one with the swivel ends. The only issues I have had with the non swivel versions is due to my own mistake by running over one of the ends on the first hose not paying attention when parking in the drive way so needed to replace the end on that one. Other than that and the green colors fading a little over the years being out in the sun light all day during summer I have had no problems. The original one seems to unlink itself better though. It has 2 rubber ridges molded inside of the hose going the whole length of the hose that seem to really help the hose unkink when pulling it much easier. The other two hoses don't have the ridges so don't unkink themselves as easy as the original one.The swivel ended hose also got a small pin hole leak a few feet from the male end side within the first year which was surprise but isn't hard to fix but is not acceptable either especially within a year.
I also own two 1/2 inch diameter flexzilla air hoses for my air compressors with no issues and love how light weight and flexible they are compared to any of the other air hoses I have owned over the years and they also have out lived any other air hoses I have owned also. Every other brands I have owned break down from exposure to sunlight very quickly and are very heavy and bulky and don't flex very well either.
I use mine every day. Thanks for sharing. Happy Gardening!
I have two and both have slowly gotten mold or mildew all over the green outer casing turning them splotchy black aside from that they are great hoses
I love them other than the mildew. Happy Gardening!
Love the Flexizilla. I also have the 1/2” but somehow it has a pinhole and don’t know if it’s repairable and can’t remember if that was a Flexzilla. I will never get those shrinks type as they fail. Every year Was a battle with other hoses. I spent more time taking kinks out than watering.
Mine is getting more stained every year but it still works like new. Happy Gardening!
💥💥 With many Amaz reviews staying how black mold forms all over this brand. 💥💥
You see what was on these after a year and they were left out all winter. I didn't see any "black mold" but in order to know for sure, a sample would have to be sent to a lab. Happy Gardening!
@@CMooreStarts I do see it and thanks for the great video. I’m wondering why so many people experienced such heavy amounts of mold and I’m wondering if it’s where they stored it.
Do you keep any of these hoses on a reel.?
Sorry for the delay, CZcams wasn't showing the replies held for review. I am very hard on my hoses and leave them laying in the grass across the lawn. I leave the 100' laying on the grass between 3 of my greenhouses. Happy Gardening!
You for you. I bought 5 of these hoses 2 yrs ago and I really liked them. But now these hoses get twisted, kinked up all the time., and the rat love eating on them.
Mine are still going strong. I had a rat chew on my house's pea pipe but never the hoses. Thanks for sharing. Happy gardening!
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Thank you. Happy Gardening!
Nice CASIO watch
It doesn't feel right not to have at least a cheap wrist watch on. I must be getting old.
Thank you for the information. I don't know in what state you live, but I live in the Midwest where it gets pretty cold, and my regular hose stiffens up around November. Just the time when I need it to clean my gutters after Fall. I wonder how this hose will do in cold temperatures. Will it stay flexible while I pressure wash my gutters? I don't know if you have had that experience. Thank you.
Here in the Pacific NW, we just had a little bit of a cold spell. Just above freezing. I (my son) did my gutters with no issues in 40-45 F. I put away one of my hard plastic hoses at the same time and that was a pain to roll up. Happy gardening!
Thanks again for the question. I just posted a new video on how flexible the hose is in cold weather.
Thank you for your review. I bought 2- 100ft. I have had mine a month. Mine are hard to put on hose holder, they want to roll up like snakes twisting, curling and I am fighting them. Am I doing something wrong?
I don't know. Maybe they are too fresh off the production line. Try laying them out and see if they want to spin and turn them in the direction they want to go naturally. Good luck. Happy Gardening!
@@CMooreStarts I was thinking that very thing. Thanks
Please send me details for where to purchase your hand held scale use to measure the hoses weights? Thanks
Wish I know. It was part of an auction lot I won right before COVID.
Just go online like eBay or whatever
It seems like it’s a scale that fisherman use. 🤟🏼
Is the hose a soft, subtle rubber that manages well? Thanks
I like the soft feel of the house even when its cold. I use mine every day. The only thing is the mildew stains on the outside.
My wood chips tore my hose up....thats why Im here...LOL
I was worried about that. No
Problem with these. Happy gardening.
Have you tried winding up this type of hose on a hose reel?
I actually used a extension cord reel for the 50' 1/2 in one. They reel up just like the Flexzilla air hoses do. Happy Gardening!
One other thing about the standard rubber hose it stiffens-up in winter and won’t straighten out and I almost trip on the coiling every time! It really gets in the way!👎🏻
I only forgot to drain the 50ft hose once and it froze up on me. Luckily it didn't pop.
Some people on Amzn have mold issues with the hoses. Yours are slightly discolored and thats all. Not sure why theirs were so bad? Not sure if they kepts theirs covered in water for long periods or what.
Flexzilla claim they resolve the issue a few years ago
mine turned all black and the squirrels chew these hoses because of the material. Would never get another one.
Wow squirrels? I have a lot of squirrels but they have not chewed mine. Hopefully they never do because I leave mine charged occasionally. Thanks. Happy Gardening!
I have 2 and both are covered with black mold that will NOT come off no matter what I use (including bleach). WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. They are very unsightly.
Thankyou for sharing. Happy Gardening!
I feel it is not mold if you cannot clean them.
Have your hoses been in constant soil contact for extended periods of time?
Tannin can leave a stain but it won't harm the polymer.
How hard is it to roll up
So much easier than an old fashion hose. Especially in cooler weather. I had another viewer ask close to the same question and did a really short video on the flexibility. czcams.com/video/vxcOHi8ovJs/video.html Happy Gardening!
I wouldnt drink out of this hose.. Mine was emitting thousands of small particles and I noticed it when I filled a bucket. Even 6 months later the particles were still coming out of the hose so I disconnected the hose and filled a bucket without using the hose and there were no more particles in the bucket..
Interesting, I never had that problem. Maybe it was a bad mix when they were making the plastic. Happy Gardening!
Did you also get black mold all over hose? I have 2 other hoses that are other brands and no mold on them and they are all stored the same way over the winter. It did this after one year at first I thought it was dirt that got worse every year. Will flexilla accept responsibility?
how is the 50 footer 5 pounds.. while the 100 ft is 15 pounds?.. i woulda thought 10 lol
The 100ft one is 3/8" inside and the 50ft is 1/4". I can hardly tell the difference in water flow. Happy Gardening!
The Flexibility of this hose is Great. BUT what is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE is how it just turns dirty just hanging on the hose holder. Mine is dark brown, dirty and the only contact it had is with the grass. I can NOT use it unless I am willing to scrub my hands, etc. with Bleach afterwards. Garbage review in my mind.
I had better luck with the hangar that is on the south side of the house because it gets full sun and sun bleaches the hose. Happy gardening!
Kink like crazy. Hate this hose. Heavy.
Thanks for your comment. Happy Gardening!
@@CMooreStarts try a zero g
I did try a Zero G. It broke apart before I even got a chance to see if the cover material l would pick up mulch in the garden.
You measured 5 lbs for a 50-footer and 14 lbs for a 100-footer? Either you have 4 lbs of water in that 100-footer or you should throw that cheap Chinese weigh scale in the garbage!
The scale is fine. The 50-footer is 1/2 in and the 100-footer is 5/8 in.
These are made with cheap chinese plastic connecters, total junk IMO.
Sorry to hear that . Mine are on their second year and still working.
Couldn't disagree more.............I have three of them that are 7 years old and they have been flawless. No issues and I would highly recommend them.