Customer Reviews

Gilmour Water Weeper Hose 5/8-Inch-by-50-Foot 27-58050

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I have tried various soaker hoses and have never been satified with any of them until I tried this one. I live in a windy location and the soaker hoses would squirt up into the air and blow all over. This hose just weeps and is easily to control with a cheap pressure regulator from WalMart. I like being able to bury it or have it above ground. It is also nice and flexiable. The quality is excellent, much better than any other I have. Recommend this item for anyone who needs a slow steady supply of water on their garden.

This soaking hose really does the job. It saves water (little or no evaporation) and lets the water soak into the ground. Great purchase; will pay for itself fast.

Soaker hose was difficult to find in local stores. replaced a similar hose that had been in my garden for over 5 years. works well.

I bought two 50 ft 5/8" Gilmour soaker hoses at Home Depot. I needed two 25 ft. lengths to make a complete circle around my house. (I had hooked up the 50 footers to two different spikets and came up short at both ends, which is why I needed two shorter hoses rather than one more long one.) HD didn't carry the 25 ft. hoses, so I bought them from Amazon. The hose material is very different than the 50 ft. hoses. The water oozes out at a MUCH faster rate. So if you link a 50 footer with a 25 footer, you will have a swamp around the latter by the time enough water is released from the former. Since the hoses were so inexpensive, it doesn't make economic sense to ship them back. I will put them around some bushes and won't link them to the 50 foot hoses. In the meantime, I bought another 50 footer, which creates some overlap, but at this point, I don't care.

By the way, the two 50 ft. hoses that I bought work well. They release a slow steady 'sweat' of water. However, the third one that I bought seems to be full of pin holes and the water shoots out creating pools of water. That is a complaint I read previously about Gilmour soaker hoses. I will return that one today and swap it out for another.

I hope this helps everyone out, especially anyone else dealing with the drought in Texas or elsewhere!

This Gilmour soaker hose works reasonably well, as long as it works. The first one I bought was poorly made, and the hose fell out of the crimped hose-end connector before I even used it. The replacement hose works reasonably well, but there are several holes from which water shoots out, and the holes are getting worse as the water cuts the holes bigger (over just 3-4 weeks of use). I expect it will go in the trash within another few weeks.

When I ordered this hose the picture of the item had "Made in USA" on it. When I recived the hose I saw that is in fact made in China. The couplings are silver colored and not brass. There isn't any pressure regulation system. They are not made of vinyl but of recycle tire rubber as far as I can tell just as the Swan and Apex soaker hoses are. Gilmour has outsourced most of its current line of products to China and the pictures on Amazon are out of date and misleading. For instance the small brass hose nozzle has the "Made in USA" on the label in the picture but the current ones are in fact made in China and do not function as well. They do not have a tight jet stream. So beware of any product bearing the Gilmour name as your getting a Chinese knock off at a premium price.

I ordered 2 of these Gilmour Water Weeper Hoses 5/8" x 50' #27-58050 from Amazon. As soon as the wife and I tried to unwind these hoses around are house and in the flower beds they broke in two. We took are time carefully unwinding the hoses first, and then stringing them into position. Nope not in one spot in multiple spots, had to purchase some splicer pieces from hardware to repair them. I went to Walmart the next day and bought 4 new hoses for $8.00 each, and they worked great. I am about done buying off of the internet, everyone seems to want to sell junk and not provide any customer service.

This worked well for about a week. After that it sprouted several "leaks" over the length of the hose. It no longer "weeps" over the full length of the hose. It only sprays from about 4 holes. Worthless item. Freight charges too high to send it back or I would.

I bought 2 of these hoses and both slit wide open with in a week. I regulators on the hose so it was not out side of pressure limits