Home and Garden: You can laugh, but I need honest answers: How do you tame a wild heavy duty garden hose?

I make sure I curl/wind my garden hose once it has been heated by the sun. That makes the hose so much more pliable and easy to handle.

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I lie mine in a straight line out in the sun before winding it up for storage.

You dump it and purchase a newer lighter hose. There are many types on the market that work well and resist knotting.

You haven't trained your hose properly. Now you need to employ a Hose Whisperer.

Disconnect and empty the hose. Make the largest loop you can handle (e.g., holding one end with your arm up and looping the hose over your hand. Take another loop the same size and see if it wants to "fight" you. If so, give the hose a flip against the curl or else turn your first loop around in your hand so that the second loop and first loop curl in the same direction. It may take more than one turn or flip to get things going. It can also be done with loops on the ground or on a wall bracket. Repeat until you reach the end.

You coil it the same way you coil a rope or an electrical cord, by giving it a little flick as you form a coil so the strands lie correctly. That's the simple way of explaining it. Now, in the case of a garden hose it's often more a matter of giving it a firm wrench than a flick. If you don't know what I mean, get at least 20 feet of 3-strand rope and practice on that so you understand the motion involved in the flick. If you have room, and if the garden hose is really misbehaving, then lay it out in a straight line so there are no kinks or twists, and then start coiling it.

slowsurfer is the smartest one here! take his advice.

but i used to work in a refinery where we had industrial hoses and they were truly beasts. the only way to roll a hose in a nice neat circle is to first start out with your hose stretched out full length with all the kinks removed. wrap it around in a circle on the ground a time or two, then grab the length of the hose and flip it as hard as you can in order to straighten out the kinks that will inevitably form. you just keep muscling through it til you're done.

like i said... take slowsurfer's excellent advice and got buy yourself a hose reel!!!

You're right I did laugh.

Thank you

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