Customer Reviews

Apex 8690-50 NeverKink Landscaper 5/8-Inch-by-50-Foot Professional Duty Hose

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This innovative product was capable of directing the flow of water in the directions I pointed it in and didn't kink in the process. Simply Amazing!

This is the third hose I've purchased for my front yard. The other two were cheapies from Walmart. I think I can honestly say that this will be the last hose I'll ever need. The connectors are made of solid brass and the hose itself is beautiful as well as durable. Yes I said beautiful. The green is a metallic sort of color that shimmers in the sun, there's also a practical yellow stripe that runs the length of the hose; I suppose that's so you'll see it on the lawn and not run it over with the mower.
What's extra nice is that the connectors are also hex shaped so one can make a good tight fit with a wrench. No leaks, no kinks, worth the money.

This hose was indeed kink resistent and had a wonderful connector, at one side fo the hose, that I was easily able to connect to my hose bib and tighten so that I knew I had a nice tight connection.

Great hose. Only brand I like.

I bought three products in tandem, all three of which will be reviewed here: Suncast PHJ100M Garden Hose Reel Hideaway with 100-Foot Hose Capacity, Apex 8690-50 NeverKink Landscaper 5/8-Inch-by-50-Foot Professional Duty Hose, and Suncast 8-Inch Metal Garden Stakes, Silver. I have a vegetable garden which I expand twice per year. I tend this garden every single day, so it is important that the tools I use work well. I have owned a couple of the cheapest hoses which can be purchased at Walmart. My thought was: "I don't care if it pops a hole, I can just replace it for $15. I don't want to spend $35-50 on a hose and have it be just the same." I have learned - it's not just the same. I don't care if the cheap hose explodes from pressure. What it has cost me dearly is TIME and FRUSTRATION. I can spend 20 minutes laying the cheap hose out straight, and have it kink even when in a straight line. A slight curve closes off the hose, so I spent more time trying to un-kink the hose and regulate water flow than I spent watering my vegetables. What took me 45 minutes or more with a cheap hose took me 25-35 minutes with a five gallon carboy, filling it four gallons at a time and carrying it around my garden. And it takes me a mere 15 minutes with Apex's never kink hose, and Suncast's hose hideaway. Instead of fighting with the hose to get it to lay straight, Apex's hose just lays there, like a hose should. I spool it out of the hideaway, it lays straight. I spool it onto the hideaway, it coils straight. It doesn't fight me, it doesn't kink, I water my garden at the maximum flow of my nozzle without having to go back and try to fix the hose. The hideaway definitely requires the stakes - otherwise the hose itself is heavier than the hideaway and the motion of my pulling would move the hideaway itself. The steaks can be pulled out of the ground if I tug *up* on the hideaway.. but my motion is normally lateral as I pull out the hose. Granted, I can't crank the handle to put away the hose as if I were playing a game on the Price Is Right - you do have to guide the hose onto the spool in a tidy manner, but now that I have a hose that just behaves as a hose should, this isn't a problem and takes only a couple of minutes at most. Buying these three items has literally cut the time I spend watering my garden in half. I was worried by all the reviews of how "cheap" the hideaway is - it works just fine with the stakes. It keeps the sun off my hose so UV rays can't degrade the plastic, it coils the hose faster and more efficiently than I could around a regular/stationary garden hose "butler" or stand, and since I took care to thread the hoses on without stripping the plastic I have experienced no leaks at all. The no-kink hose is truly a wonder, it NEVER fights me, resists movement, or kinks. I highly recommend all three of these products; as long as you take very basic care with their use they work wonderfully.