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There are a lot of options when you’re shopping for
a garden hose reel. How do you choose the right reel for you?
There is a variety of options available because
gardeners have a variety of needs. One person is in charge of watering a kids’
baseball field, another has a huge kitchen garden, and a third manages
landscaping at an apartment complex. The first thing you need to do as you choose
your garden hose reel is ask yourself:
What do I need my garden hose reel for?
Obviously, you use a garden reel hose to make your
life easier. For the frequent waterer, there’s no more essential tool than a
garden hose reel, except perhaps the garden hose. Watering your garden or lawn
takes time, and it’s time you need to shrink. No one wants to spend a
quarter-hour untangling hose. You need a garden reel hose to do the hard work
for you: make it easy to pull the hose out for watering, easy to wind away, and
easy to keep neat and organized.
But what else do you need? Do you need to
carry your hose over a wide distance? Do you need a hose reel you can fix to
the back wall of your house? Do you want a pretty large hose reel cart, stable
and sturdy, that can carry a large amount of hose? How you answer those
questions narrows your choices.
If you need to carry your hose around, you want a
cart reel or a wagon reel. Both cart reels and wagon reels have wheels and can
cart your hose around for you, so you don’t have to trail your hose on the
ground before you get to the place you need to water. Cart wheels have two
wheels, and wagon reels have four. Wagon reels also have a slightly larger
capacity. To learn more about cart reels, browse our cart
reels page or read the article What is a
Cart Reel? To learn more about wagon reels,
browse our wagon reels page or read the
article What is a Wagon Reel?
If you would prefer a more stationary reel, you want
to look at our wall mount reels. The wall
mount reels can be mounted on your house or other wall. Some of the wall mount
reels can also be mounted on the lawn or turf, or placed on the floor. To
learn more about wall mount reels, browse our wall
mount reels page or read the article What is
a Wall Mount Reel?
Once you determine the type of garden hose reel
appropriate for you—wall mount reel, cart reel, or wagon reel—then you want to
consider your particular options. All our hose reels are of high-quality and
durable construction. Also, any garden hose reel you choose will keep your
hose neat and ready to use, and protect the hose from wear and tear. But to be
really satisfied, you’ll want to fully understand your options. With wall
mount reels, you need to decide whether you want a parallel reel (the hose
pulls from the side) or a perpendicular reel (the hose pulls in a straight out
from the reel, perpendicular to the reel). If you can’t decide what you need,
you may want to choose a reel with maximum flexibility, like our 4 in 1, 200’ Multi-purpose Hose Reel and Two-Wheel Cart,
which can be adapted to be a wall mount hose reel or a two-wheel cart reel.
A good hose reel is a small investment with a huge
reward. To learn more about your choices please read browse
our website or read our questions page.
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