What's up everybody? Welcome back to The Durbin Compound. If you haven't met me already, my name is
Devin Durbin. So today on the channel, we are doing a one year update on the Flexzilla garden hose.
So, I'm going to hurt some feelings and I'm going to stir the pot on this topic. So, you stay tuned!
All right guys, so I'm bringing this video to you about a year and six months after owning this hose.
I did a previous video on this hose, a while back, last summer. You can check it out in
the upper right hand corner if you'd like. This hose is definitely awesome. So, I'll start out with
saying that I love this hose. It is an awesome garden hose. A lot of people don't like it and
it's controversial. And a lot of people make comments that it's a crappy hose and it kinks
all the time. This is not a hose for lazy people. So, if you're lazy and you just want to have a
garden hose on a reel and, you know, just yank it out whenever you need to, and literally
just pull the entire hose down the yard, and not have to mess with anything,
you want to be lazy about garden hose, this is not the garden hose for you. This does take a little
bit more time to get out. And it takes a little bit more time to put it away. But this hose will
last you a lifetime. It's not like those other crappy hoses. They get all cracked up and
are just junk. So, I like these hoses. These poly-hoses can be left outside in the winter.
I'm not saying that you should abuse your hoses like that, or leave them hooked up to your hose bibs through
the winter. But if you were to forget about it and the temperature drops below freezing,
this hose is going to have a lot more flexibility. And it's going to expand with that freezing water,
instead of just cracking your hose all to crap, just because you forgot that one time.
So, this hose is forgiving. This hose is, you know, it doesn't look like it's faded much. it's still
really, really a neon color which I like. I could wipe it down. I didn't wipe it down because I'm making
a video about it. So, you can clean it off if you'd like. You can keep it, you know, dirty from rolling
across the ground. It is what it is. But I think this hose is definitely going to hold up for many years to come.
And I don't see any deterioration in it, whatsoever. So, let's get down to
deterioration first. Okay, so this is an example of a...one of those non-kink hoses. This is made by
Teknor Apex company. Basically this has a no-kink spine down it. This hose is about the same age
as my Flexzilla. I've had to replace the end on it because it was plastic. So, you know,
I had to put a new end on it. And this hose is cracked in multiple places. I'm going to roll in
some pictures here of some areas of this hose that have cracked through and you can actually see the
ribbing inside the rubber hose. So, in my opinion it didn't hold up very well. So, I think these are
about the same age and they sit outside. Both of these hoses were taken in and stored in the
attic, in cold storage over the winter. So it's not like I misused and abused them. They're the
same...basically treated the exact same way. And it's just how one wears compared to the other.
So, a cheaper hose, yes. But a better quality hose? Not even close. So, let's talk about...I'd like to get
out this Flexzilla and show you exactly what I'm talking about by it's not a lazy man's hose.
All right guys, I'm going to do the best to demonstrate exactly what I'm talking about here.
I'll going to pull this hose completely off my hook here, and you just throw it down, and then you want to go ahead and
pull it out. This hose isn't going to work for you like that. You're going to get a lot of kinking.
You're going to get exactly what it's doing right there. You know, lazy people, when they want to get out
their hose, they just throw it down on the ground. And they're going to fight with that knot there.
And now I have to come in here, figure out my knot. Okay, maybe it'll be easier if I apply water to it.
Hey, look! I've got a leak in my cheap... I've got a leak in my cheap handle here. All right. Okay, now maybe
it's a little easier when you put water on it. Okay, now I'm still fighting with it. This is how lazy
people get out their hose. And they fight with it. And they say that hoses suck. And they are just...
"Ah, this hose is... Ah, this hose is such garbage!" That's what they say. But it's really all in the user.
All right, I'm going to show you guys exactly how I put the hose up, every time. When I say that
it takes a little time and effort to put it back the correct way. You know, just take a little bit of time,
and coil your hose up the right way. And then you won't have to worry about it doing dumb things
in the future. If you wanted to put this on reel, this Flexzilla hose is not good for a reel.
It has a lot of elasticity. So it's going to...it's definitely going to stretch when you
put it on a hose reel. So, you know, if you're trying to do that and you pull it out, you'll find that
you need to put it away with pressure on it. If you do want to put it on a hose reel, you will have to
do it with the pressure on it. Okay, so that's how I put my hose away every time, coiling it.
Make sure that, you know, you're twisting it so that it all lines up. It's nice and neat.
All right guys, for this round, I'm going to take out the hose in a way that you should do with a Flexzilla hose.
All right, and I'll go ahead and pull it out and show you that it doesn't kink up.
Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing that I was able to pull out the hose, put some pressure on it,
and it didn't kink at all. I wasn't lazy about it. I just went ahead and took a little bit of
extra time to get my hose off the hook, and got it unreeled. And hey! Guess what? Didn't kink on me!
If you do get a kink, it's probably because you're trying to go around something, or you're
not spinning the hose as you come out. It uncoils just like an extension cord. So if you're using an
extension cord and, you know, you come up on a kink, it's probably your fault because you're
not spinning the extension cord in order for it to not kink. So that's another thing that I like
about this hose. This hose, even if you kink it, and you kink it really bad, it has no memory. It goes
right back to where it was. So, you can kink it in multiple places. You can do whatever you need to do to it,
or whatever you want, and it has no memory. It goes right back to where it was. When you
start kinking those crappy rubber hoses, or those hoses with no-kink spines, all you do is tear up
that spine. There are some big quality contractor hoses out there that have a metal spine down them.
All you do when you kink that bad boy over is, you crimp that wire in there and you never get it back.
It has no memory. It will stay kinked. It will always be a trouble spot for you. So you might as
well cut the hose off there, and put the fitting on both ends, and call it two hoses at that time.
So, I think this hose is definitely worth every bit of the dollar that you spend on it. This is the 5/8 variant.
I'll roll in some pictures of the O-rings. It comes with O-rings folks. And, you know,
you get those nice anodized, crimped fittings on the end. They're nice and protected. They have the green Flexzilla.
I think it's just an awesome hose. You know, if you disagree with me, whatever. But you're
probably one of those people that is lazy about, you know, getting it out and putting it away.
Yes, it does take some extra time. I wouldn't recommend it on a hose reel, but you're never going to find
the best hose. I think this is definitely a 9 out of 10. The only thing that I would, you know,
like to see on this is a little bit less elasticity, to be able to go on a hose reel. So that you can pull
it out with no water on it and it will be a lot more user-friendly for people that want it on a reel.
I don't use hose reels. So, it really is, you know, not...it's a non-issue in my book.
So, I hope you guys like the video. It's a little controversial. I hate hearing people complain
about this is a crappy hose because I absolutely love this hose. And everybody that I've recommended
it to, I've shown them, hey, it's going to take you a little extra time to get this out and put it away.
And once you have that understanding, once you accept that, that you need to take a little extra time
for it to work great for you, then, boom, nobody has any trouble with it. So, I highly recommend
this hose to you. If you, you know, if you agree with me, give me a thumbs up. If you disagree,
give it a thumbs down. Whatever you're into. I'm coming out with videos every Tuesday, Thursday,
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