Drinking Water Safe Hose

Customer Reviews:

Could be sturdier [Posted on 2007-06-08]
We use a drinking water hose to fill up our fresh water tank on our boat. It's also safer for the kids to drink out of. It offers a clean taste without the usual "garden hose" taste and offers no chemical leaching. I used to be able to pick up very sturdy drinking/garden hoses from our local hardware stores, but they are no longer available. I can't even find any online anymore. They were much more rugged than this hose. They were light green in color and very sturdy. Our new hose doubles as the garden hose and when a lot of pressure is put on it, such as when using a lawn sprinkler, a hand held sprayer or when it's hooked up to our power washer, it bulges quite a bit. I don't know how long it will last. It feels flimsy and kinks easily even though it states that it doesn't. It's not a bad hose, I just don't think it will last that long. I wish they would make a stronger drinking hose available instead of these little wimpy ones.

A horrible hose................ [Posted on 2007-07-20]
I've used the Gilmour Flexogen hoses for years with complete satisfaction so when I ordered this hose it never crossed my mind that it would not be a quality product. I would have liked to have seen the look on my face the first time I used this hose! At low pressure its fine, but if you put a nozzle or cut off on the end and let the pressure build.......holy cow! I watched in amazement as the hose swelled larger and larger and writhed on the ground like a live thing. Very creepy. Apparently in making it drinking water safe they didn't use enough tire cord to keep its shape. Hose gets stiff and totally unwieldy. Swells like a hotdog on the grill. Its hard to describe but suffice to say compared to a "normal" hose its practically unusable. The Apex Neverkink drinking water hose also sold by Amazon is much better and holds its shape/diameter.

Hose, safe to drink from [Posted on 2007-11-11]
My mom feeds and waters birds and feral cats in the backyard. She has been looking for a hose that is safe to drink from in stores for months to replace the old one that is falling apart.

She let me know about her failed search. I found this one on-line and purchased for her. She's quite happy with the hose. Said that it attached to the house nicely and has no leaks (the old one did). No complaints about it (except that one should be able to purchase one in the stores).

found at last [Posted on 2008-04-15]
Hooray, finally I have found and have verified by these comments, that my search that has gone on for months has ended for a hose that is safe to drink from. My bird baths, outside dog bowls, plus watering my vegetable garden won't be poisoned by a chemical hose. What insanity is it to sell poisoned hoses, and that a person has to hunt down a safe hose from which to use around our homes, on our lawns that our children play on, pets, us? How dangerous that so many people don't know that the hoses sold in stores are not safe to use for humans and animals to drink from.

Concerns about lead in hoses [Posted on 2008-05-18]
I wanted to buy a lead free hose for the garden and pool, this one is manufactured as 'drinkable', and it does its job.

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