Indeed, was already feeling the 'throw-away culture' vibes until the very end of the video. Says a lot that Vince only looked on EBay without (initially) bothering to look at the manufacturer's own website for spare parts. Big props to Hozelock for making them available, and at 4.5 quid, that's a good deal compared to the time Vince spent hacking up a bodge job :)
EXCELLENT VID, I only came to find out where that long spring went. I knew WHAT it was for, but couldn't figure out WHERE it went exactly. The instructions were vaugue with that.
Brilliant I was just saying to the missus like 2 days ago that ours is leaking and I'll have to take a look,now I have the perfect video to play while i try an fix it,cheers Vince made an hr job 2 mins hopefully
Garden hose repair by my favourite company. Bodge and Scarper. A revered old brand with centuries of tradition. Damn you Vince, with your easygoing charm and wit you have me watching you fix a garden hose and enjoy every minute of it. I do respect a good bodge. And that was class. I now have to fix my own leaky garden hose, which is of a completely different type, so I will have to find completely new bodges for this job. Don't Buy Cheap Garden Hoses! You will always regret it.
Great video if the little fingers are broken off you can put an automotive hose clip around the pipe as you can get small one's and as they are used on cars they won't leak as a car has more pressure on the water system than what's in a hose pipe. Done this on different hose pipe fitting and they have never leaked since.
It’s always a good service you do Vince,finding things to repair of interest I don’t have one of these but if I get one in the future I’ll know what to do to fix a leak👍
Nice job on the creative fix. Glad I watched all the way to the end because I was going to suggest trying to contact the company directly to see if that part was available. Sometimes even if they don't normally sell the part they still might let you buy it. I've done this several times.
Oh i really hope you gave your father something sweet for the tea afterwards. So missing doing small and big projects with my old father when he was alive. Great video thank you!
nice fix. I thought after the cannibalisation that it would have gushed out worse than before lol. Vince is going up in the world, even has a new helper now
Hahaha, that is my brother Paul, famous from previous videos such as the VW Golf, satellite internet and FFTC router relocation. He was silent in this one though, it means I have to pay him less!!! 😂😂😂👍
@Vince, someone needs to tell you: you got us addicted to your Rolls Royce shenanigans. We don’t want to see you fix the garden hose, we need more of that Rolls Royce stuff. Mooore
Hahaha 😂 I have 10 more episodes already filmed and ready to go, I'm just spacing them out a bit as the last one I just filmed took 4 days!!!!!! So as the jobs get harder I may not be able to do one a week so I am pacing it out at the beginning so I always have 1 to 2 a week 👍👍👍
Wow, that was a fantastic an extremely effective fix. I think would rather do your fix than buy a replacement part. Your fix might actually last longer than the OEM part.
I worked through this exact problem a couple of years ago, could get the spare part and eventually gave up and bought a whole new one! Anyway next time I will have another option, great video
I had this exact issue during the pandemic and although I found the part in the hozelock website it was out of stock for ages. In the end I just waited till it wasn’t but if your video had been around It would have been a great help
I fixed mine a few weeks back. Couldn't find a good repair video at the time and the o ring didn't look too bad but changing it solved the problem. Mine looks just like yours but no spring so possibly a later design than mine (20 yrs old). Considered buying a new hose reel but they are so expensive that a bit of persistence is worth it. I've lost a few teeth on the connector so will bear in mind your fix for next time as I bet we all have a few old hose parts lying around.
I was sure it wouldn't work😂😂and was very surprised that it is really possible to cut off a piece and put it together with a completely different one, and it will be tight. nice to know thanks for trying😊and you got a little smarter about how to fix your leaky joints on the water hose
I had the same issue with ours with broken part same as yours. The way I ‘fixed’ it was to cut a new piece of pipe and wrap the end with electrical tape (all I had to hand) and then placed back and tightened. That worked great for many years. Always good finding alternatives when you can.
Oh cheers! I think that it's a bodge worth doing especially if you haven't ordered/checked replacements online! This break was greatly enhanced by pomegranate juice and Empress gin! Thanks for this vid!
My hose fitting had the same issue with brittleness. I did the same fix but it didn't last long. So i removed all the fingers and the clamp and used a ordinary jubilee clip/hose clamp and it hadn't have any problem after that.
@9:00 the inner of the hose should seal against the outside face of the inner post that it goes over, the outside shouldn't seal at all, the fingers just need to be there to compress the hose against the post to form a seal on the inside.
Thanks Scott, we worked that out later that day when we did a couple of experiments to work out how it was sealing. I thought the fingers sealed any water that got past the inner post, I was wrong. So really a hose clip (jubilee clip) straight onto the hose crushing against the inner post would be the best job as it wouldn't go brittle. Cheers for sharing your knowledge 👍👍👍
yeah I was thinking hose/jubilee clip, but then I had a thought, could you not just have the yellow pipe directly connected to the tap, with a bit of slack so you can still turn reel. anyways good fix. all the best. edit, that wouldn't work would it because it would pull on the outside Tao.
You're lucky if these type of hose reels don't leak somewhere, Ive got an old B&Q one similar style, always dribbles a bit, Even after doing what you did with the silicon grease & new O rings, mine has 2 of the standard snap on tap connectors inside, to make the connections.
Hi Vince, I am curious in Great Britian does it cold enough to freeze pipes? I see the exposed copper piping. Does it get shut off inside the house and drained in winter? I am in a cold climate (Minnesota, USA) and it gets down to -25 degrees F.; so we have to drain anything that is outside or in an unheated space.
Yes it does. Normally it would have another valve on the inside to shut it off in the colder months when it is never used. I think this exposed copper pipe lines up with under the kitchen sink so the shut off valve would be hidden away there 👍👍👍
Also you can just get a normal hose end and a hose washer and it would seal against the hose washer but all the plastic fingers would have to be gone , at least I think it would work depends on the threads but most hose ends are a common thread
Yes, I didn't think of that which is a shame as I have been looking into the engine of the car so I should have had inspiration from the numerous jubilee clips in there 👍👍👍
Did you try direct from hozelock for spares I have bought from them, as I type you Did, the lesson is don't rely solely on ebay for spares one good example is my gtech airram vacuum parts are often half the price of ebay direct from gtech
Perfect reason to get a 3d printer :D These types of fixes scream for a selfmade replacement part if it fails again. Anyway. Good job showing the landfill the middle finger :D You are lucky to find parts like this. Seems the hose spooler was designed to sell replacement parts in the first place.
Hahaha, brother Marcel, brother BUT I will get great joy in telling him that the bits you could see of him in the video looked old enough to be my dad 😂 Thanks Marcel 👍
the fingers don't actually seal they act as the clamp. when the nut tightens on the finger's the fingers squeeze the hose against the white plastic inner part of the connector. the sealing is done on the inner part of the hose and the white connector. if finger's are missing that part of the hose isent compressed onto the inner connector hence the leak.
🤭 Just goes to show you people will watch anything you put out.While I am off to watch one of the other much better channels, on how to repair a old Rolls_Royce and Bentley....
@@thorz7304 I’m a bricklayer working for various small builders i’ve repaired many a clients hose reel changing the o ring that and pinching up the tap to stop dripping
2:56 When you pulled out the spring you stretched it and shrunk its diameter, making it less effective... you could have increased its diameter by compressing it and winding it out to the original diameter. I think you want that spring nice and tight to the point you have to screw it into the hose and it will not collapse.
