Best Nylex Garden Hoses

No good at low pressure – Despite what it says on the packaging, does not work well with low pressure. I wanted to water a narrow strip on a slope. At low pressure only the holes on the downslope side of the hose worked. At high pressure, the water went in the wrong places.

Poor and disappointing experience with Nylex – I bought the new hose in mid spring ready for my vegetable season and followed all of the instructions given on the packaging, I laid the hose out on… Read more

my grassy back lawn, made sure there were no tight bends, hung the hose on a hanger that allowed me to use large hoops. Whenever I used the hose for watering I would disconnect the watering rose from the end of the hose and then rehang the hose. The fittings that were supposed to be guaranteed for two years leaked immediately. Last week (early February) the four month old hose (guaranteed for twenty years) sprang a leak and I have had to use a hose joiner. My back garden where I use the hose has no concrete or gravel to cause wear. Unfortunately I cannot find the sales docket from Bunnings, all I have is the packaging. I am very disappointed with this purchase, I have had cheap $20 hoses in the past that have lasted for many years, this hose was more that $70 and I thought it would last for at least the term of the guarantee. I will not be using Nylex products again and will not be recommending this hose to the local clubs I attend.

Hmm Kinky – I bought this hose because it claimed to be very hard to get kinked. That's the claim to fame here and it's what I needed because after many years… Read more

of using cheapest, cheap, decent and then heavy duty hoses over a large property of several acres with articulated garden beds I'd had enough of the constant kinking issue. No hose seemed immune to it.

This hose is HEAVY and STIFF. No wonder you'd think it wouldn't kink. But it certainly does.. and when it does.. it's just ridiculous trying to un-kink it. If this hose sits rolled up, it's like unwinding a copper pipe to get it straightened out so I ended up keeping it laid out in a graceful line with several curves so it would remain supple and get some flexibility with the sun (like a lizard). You really feel like you're then dragging a sand bag around the garden given how heavy the thing is when full of water. I had curves and rocks and bushes and many other things along paths which this would bang into and sometimes, even break through because it is so tough and unforgiving.

On top of that, over time the hose has developed a wicked twist in most of it. This has the added effect of making it less supple akin to a power cord on a vacuum cleaner that just remains twisted until it snaps after a long time of frustrating use.

Best place for this (if at all), is laid in a straight line on a house block when you can simply pull it left and right and then leave it back in the same place.

On the plus side, the leak-proof fittings have been very good with no pressure blowouts on them whatsoever, it's never developed a leak, you can't roll it up with a kink so you are forced to un-kink it before rolling it up (unlike regular hoses that can be bundled up like knotted fishing twine) and finally it's likely to last through destructive storms and excavators running over it!

In summary... give it a miss. At the time of this writing, Bunnings (where I bought it years back) and Nylex no longer stock it. I did notice that other "misc" places still have them though and more specifically, the 12mm version (which is probably easier to use) but still the same problems. Just read the reviews on that one as well. People aren't happy.

Poor quality product – I purchased a couple of Nylex Swivel Two Way Plastic Manifold and one Nylex Swivel Four Way Plastic Manifold from Bunnings and I’m a little… Read more

dissatisfied with the quality. At first glance they look long lasting but the product is let down by the fitting that attaches the manifold to the tap. It’s made of plastic that goes brittle and its push in lug design causes it to fail. I’m starting to see a pattern with all the Nylex products I have purchased.

I don’t recommend this product