New Hosepipe Needed

Hi everyone, been doing a bit in the garden whilst we have a spell of reasonable weather, moved a few plants about etc, got out the hose pipe to give them water after moving, sprung 2 leaks , so considering replacing with one of those flat hoses that expand, for easier handling, what are the reccomendations please as I have heard they can be a pain.

 

The customers who have tried those types that expand and the shrink back once turned off and drained have found them to fail at the connection points.
They have now returned to the old tried and tested hozes.
The one I use which is very good is the Hozelock Super tricoflex which is very good.

 

I have never tried the flat ones except for a soaker hose. That worked ok but it's not what you need. It did have the advantage of rolling up tightly and not taking up space when not in use.

 

I have a shorter section attached to the outside tap permanently, this is which split, I can cover my entire back garden with this. I then have another hose on a reel thing, which I can connect to when I want to water the front garden, which some years is only used a few times. When I unrolled this there are a few places with kinks and twists, looking like future splitting candidates, I was considering a hose that will cover all without the faf of extending, it would have to be 75 metre, think I will just buy a cheapo for the back garden until the other dies altogether then buy a longer cassette type.

 

What I did to save dragging a hose down the garden was to take a 25m length and bury it under the lawn with the connector sticking out which i connected a smaller hose reeel to when watering down there.Much easier,no kinks and should last for years under there.

 

not do-able @WeeTam all the side of my bungalow is concrete path.