Nylex Neverkink 18mm x 30m

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 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… Read more

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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.