Which type of garden hose suits you?

You can water all plants, bushes, and lawns with a standard garden hose. Use a special attachment suitable for the job. For example, you can use a sprinkles for your lawn and a spray nozzle for your flower beds. You can also connect standard garden hoses to a high-pressure cleaner and use them to easily fill a pool or pond with water.

• You can use this garden hose for almost all jobs.
• You can connect a standard garden hose to a high-pressure cleaner as well.

You can use a flexible garden hose for most jobs in your garden. Just like with a standard garden hose, you can use different attachments on the hose. That way, you can easily water your flower beds or fill the pond with water. You can't use a flexible garden hose with a high-pressure cleaner, because it can't handle as much pressure.

• You can use a flexible garden hose for most common jobs.

Contrary to standard garden hoses and flexible garden hoses, you can't connect a fitting to the drip hose. You place drip hoses in your garden, after which they automatically drip water into your garden. That way, you can water bushes and flower beds without having to hold the hose yourself.

• You don't have to hold the hose yourself, the water drips out of the small holes automatically.

Many standard garden hoses come in a storage system. Think about a reel, a wall reel, or a hose cart. This allows you to roll up the garden hose quickly and without any kinks. A hose with storage system also takes up less space, because it's stored rolled-up.

• You can store the garden hose quickly and kink-free.
• A hose with storage system takes up little space in the shed.

You can't store flexible garden hoses with a storage system. You have to roll up the hose yourself and store it in the garden or shed like that. Many flexible garden hoses shrink when there's no water flowing through. This allows you to store it in a compact way.

• If the flexible hose is extensible, it takes up less space.

• The hose doesn't come in a storage system, so you have to roll it up yourself.

You can't store drip hoses in a storage system. The hose also doesn't shrink when there's no water flowing through. As a result, the hose takes up a lot of space in the shed.

• The hose doesn't come in a storage system, so you have to roll it up yourself.
• Drip hoses don't shrink after use, so they take up a lot of space.

Most standard garden hoses are made of sturdy and hard material, like PVC. Thanks to this, a high water pressure isn't a problem. Useful, because the garden hose won't snap when you open the faucet all the way. Standard garden hoses also retain their shape. As a result, the hose always has the same size, even when you're not using it.

• Standard garden hoses made of PVC are very strong and don't break easily.

• A standard garden hose doesn't shrink when you're not using it, so it takes up more space.

Flexible garden hoses are made of fabric. Thanks to this, they never get kinks and can easily bend around obstacles in your garden. Flexible hoses by Hozelock are extensible. This makes them double in size when water flows through. The hose shrinks again when you're not using it. Flexible garden hoses made of fabric are less strong than standard garden hoses. Due to this, they can't withstand water pressure as well.

• Flexible garden hoses by Hozelock shrink when you're not using them, which saves space.
• Thanks to the flexible material, kinks never occur in the hose.

Just like a flexible garden hose, a drip hose is very bendable. You can easily lay the hose in bends throughout the garden. Contrary to flexible hoses, drip hoses are never extensible. This means they don't shrink and grow, and always stay the same size. Drip hoses often lay in the garden for a longer time period. This isn't a problem thanks to the sturdy material, because they don't wear soon.

• Thanks to the flexible material, kinks never occur in the hose.

• A drip hose doesn't shrink when you're not using it, so it takes up more space.