Flopro Professional Metal Hose Repairer, Chrome

These are brilliant! Got fed up of replacing plastic ones every few years. Bought one for the back of the house - so solid and strong and well made AND looks good so a week later we bought one for the front hose too! How nice to have your hose on something that can also be considered attractive!!! Hoping they last may years to come! It holds a lot of hose too - ours is about 25 metres and it’s not completely full! So easy to use - pull the hair to unwind and wind the handle to pull it all back on!

Great hose reel, high quality, functional, good value for money. Waited a long while to review to see how it would fare over time and I must say it’s as good as when new!

Exactly as advertised and great hose reel. Only problem is the hose connections with hozelock fittings not compatible

I was reluctant to pay the seemingly high price for this item but having taken the plunge was pleasantly surprised. Some very minor assembly required by means of screwing the handle on, but otherwise ready to go. This is a pretty simple item by design but uses decent thickness of stainless steel and aluminium frame. Feels very sturdy and should not tarnish over time. Well worth the extra money versus the typical plastic ones. This feels like it will last a long time. It has an almost homemade quality about it given the sturdy build. Rarely can you buy items like this nowadays. Nowhere on the item, packaging or listing could I find information about country of origin. Any time in my experience this information cannot be found, it means made in China. I assume that is the case here unfortunately. I wound up a 25m Gardena SuperFlex 13mm hose and it could obviously take more than this, winds very easily.

Im really pleased with this- heavy high quality- should last for years. The Water inlet connection is Brass not plastic. Easily holds my 30metre hose with lots of room for a longer hose. Note that you will also need to aquire a short Hose with a connector on each end to connect this HoseReel to your tap. I got a 1 metre length complete with connectors from ToolStation and it works fine.

Seems well made. Provided a leak-free connection between a Flo Pro hose connector and a Gardena connector. This is running on a pumped irrigation system at about 80 psi (normal house pressure 30-60 psi) so quite impressed. Haven't tested with other brands, but serves my needs!

Compared with the hozelock reel I have replaced, this one with it seems a lot more robust. The brackets that are supplied are a bit thinner than the reel itself and I can see that the two seem not to match quality wise. However I have used both the brackets as per the instructions and it all looks good and secure. I have pulled the full length of hose off in my case 30m and no problems, it didn’t fall off the wall or anything. The only observation I would make is that it would be good to have three brackets supplied, my reason for that is, when winding the hose back in the bottom of the reel bangs on the wall. The third bracket would fit on the bottom support bar and stop that happening. Other than that small problem I am very happy with this reel.

They look great, but... I used their 'professional' hose and it keeps popping out with the slightest pressure, just not worth it. Put em where you can't see it and go for plastic fittings, you'll thank me :)