Garden hose nozzles

[mik]

Accepting the full middle age-ness of this tragic post....

For ages - like years - I have replaced the nozzle on the hose used for washing the car and erm... other hozerly duties. They always get broken way too quickly - usually have an unopened one in the garage for when the current one shits it’s biscuits and shuffles over to the great spray pattern in the sky.

Having once made the mistake of buying some supermarket shit, I have always stuck to - what I considered to be premium - hozelock stuff.

But it never lasts.

Over Christmas mrs mik was hosing out the duck enclosure and carefully threw the hose nozzle down into the stones about as hard as she feckin could and amazingly - it broke.

Replaced it with a hozelock premium nozzle which lasted a full 4 days before one of the boys snapped something inside it attempting to defrost the fucker. FFS.

Dismayed with the fragility of hozelock’s premium nozzly offering I raised the stakes and revealed a whole different level.... oh my. I am now the proud owner of one of these naughty boys. Twenty UK pounds, but it offers both flow and spray pattern control in addition to a go / no-go trigger, with reassuring metallic bitiness.

I’m looking forward to a long and happy future together.

[Zonda_]

Hozelock are shite, used a metal one for years.

[mik]

WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME???

[Pete_]

Just squeeze the end of the pipe with your fingers HTH

[duncs500]

I've got hozelock ones, I've had no issues. Maybe you lot are DIW.

[Mito Man]

My spray pattern is a bit messed up in the mornings.

[Jobbo]

Hozelock are shite, used a metal one for years.

This, except that the metal ones break just as much as the Hozelock ones.

The only working one I have now is a freebie Hozelock straight one with no trigger. Ironic.

[jamcg]

[Rich B]

Yeah, mine never last more than a year or so.

[DeskJockey]

Don't know what the problem is. I've got a twisty Hozelock nozzle thingy that has lasted about six years. Obviously the fact that my wife doesn't like using it and it has therefore been sat on a shelf for about five and a half of those years, has nothing to do with it...

[mik]

I have set a diary reminder for 2031 so I don’t forget to come back and tell you all how awesomely it is still working.

[JonMad]

That looks good. I don't tend to have a problem with the hose end - it's the other connectors pinging off that make the job more annoying than it should be.

[Gavin]

I have had the same one for about a decade I think, it is a Gardena one that you can twist the rose part to alter the flow. I have dropped it on my drive dozens if not hundreds of times and the only problem with it is you have to press it off on off to get it off.

[GG.]

Right mik you’ve now got your own voodoo doll in punishment for this thread:

I’ve never had an issue until this very day and now I gone done cracked the nozzle head

[dinny_g]

WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME???

You know about Bosch these days, right???

[mik]

@GG. That one looks like it could be as much as 3 months old.

[GG.]

3 years at least I think!

[mik]

IMPOSSIBLE!

[Swervin_Mervin]

My 20yo Hozelock multi-spray head still works. It sticks a bit but that's all. It always just gets dropped/dragged, bounced off steps etc.

I bought a new metal one this year and it was great for about 10 uses and then effing useless as the fitting end and seal clearly don't have the right tolerances and I could only get it to work at all by pushing and holding it into connector. Now got a plastic Gardena one.

[mik]

So that was what - 24days?

Looks like my eldest has broken the on/off trigger.