Installing Eley Garden Hose Reel - The Best Garden Hose Reel 

These are the best videos. Just you and the camera. No techno beatzz and no quick jump cuts. Just you sharing your thoughts.

An original old style video is always very welcome. Giving a real nod to core values. It’s where OG started and a very popular format that is timeless. Authentic and informative. Thank you.

People always pick and choose video styles. Honestly I love all the content I can pick and choose what to watch and enjoy. Thank you Matt and OG.

Matt dialing in his garden hose setup on the old-style video format is awesome.

One thing I have learned from OG, not so much about perfection, but more about having everything about improving the user experience. Some things I follow OG, and also do things somewhat different to make it right for me.

Awesome you’ve given me the motivation to install mine that’s been in my garage sitting in the box for the last 4 years. This video really helps . Thanks !

The new style vids with the camera guys and fancy edits are great, but I love a good old school 20+ minute long Matty and his camera video. Keep it up!

I just bought the ELEY as well. Watching you put it together, so I can cheat. 😂

Well done Sir! I was just looking at installing 3 of these. No more hose on the ground… yes! TY

It is an amazing hose reel! You introduced me to Eley in an old video. Since then I've added two more, one with wheels and upgrade the original with their updated swivel pipe. Everyone asks about them, and I hesitate before answering because I forget they are Eley, so I just say they are from OG!

The best videos looking forward to the Friday podcast

These are my favorite, just you chillin doing your thing. Btw, I went grain free 5 months now, helped my head out. Wanted to tell you.

Yep I got one of them and LOVE it.

No only is the eley reel and awesome product, they have amazing customer service.

So relaxing. I always feel these videos can get long until I find myself at the end of the video lol. Good ol’ Adam’s days!

"Just bought a ...." You made my week with this hose reel, AND what you bought! :)

If you're installing any more of those concrete anchors, tapping the anchor fully into the drilled hole before placing the screw in it will allow the anchor to set more securely. The screw causes the anchor to expand to the point that it will become tight when fully seated and it won't free spin. Hope the tip helps...still owe you about a thousand more for all I've gotten from the channel.

Under your prior tutelage I installed one in my new house when I built it, and my parents’ shore house on Father’s Day this year 👍

Extremely interesting video, thank you

That original ELEY video is one of the first videos that brought me to the channel. I was flipping the through the Northern Tool catalog for a rolling reel and just knew they were all junk. I ponied up the cash a few years back and got an ELEY hose reel with two 60' Griot's water hose because I needed more than a hundred feet and the black matched well. I immediately swapped out for the OG inlet hose because I could customize the distance too.

Eley makes the best garden nozzle by far imo. Can’t wait to add one of their hose reels to my house.

Beautiful! Now only if it came in another color apart from Blue. Like Red ❤

A 3/4" size would be ideal for us professionals who have to drain water heaters and pump out flooded areas to access for work. Not all hoses are used for watering gardens. You're also likely to find more willing spenders for higher quality goods if they use them for work.

great video! Did you have a video detailing how you did that garage floor? Thanks!

I always put anti corrosion lube on the threads of all my hose connectors which makes it easy to disassemble hose connections years later.

I have same plans for the hose reel and the quick connects.

I found Eley reels probably around the time Matty did, at least 10 years ago. Back when they were under $150. Long before I ever heard of OG. But I never got around to getting one. Now my front yard reel is falling off the wall so I just might finally pull the trigger.

Not sure the OG handles cold Tennessee winters. Had mine 3 years snd inside of hose coming apart. Small black rubber pieces come out. Ordered new as the rubber could clog foam gun filter. Will store in winter and use cheaper one then. Summer only for OG.

Dang it…I was gonna buy an eley hose reel from you for the gt3rs giveaway …guess I gotta figure out something else to buy…I bought the 50’ continental hose from you last year…it’s great

When your rewinding, bring the end of the hose back to the reel first so you’re only dragging half of it as you rewind. Also keeps the hose end or spray nozzle from being drug across the concrete driveway.😳

I'd buy 2 if Eley would let you sell them!

By all means - this isn't a correction, you do you. But those backflow preventers are there for when a firetruck connects to a water source, turns on the pump, and begins to pull large volumes of water out of the city supply. The pump on the truck is powerful enough to cause negative pressure to surrounding homes and entire neighborhoods (if multiple trucks are connected, it's not uncommon for the effects to be seen nearly a mile away from the scene). That device prevents contaminated water from being sucked up into your homes drinking water, or worse, the supply to the neighborhood. For hose reals used outside, around plants/pesticides/fertilizers, the risk far outweighs the benefit, IMO. I'm sure you knew this, and are ok with the risks, but others should know how dangerous that really is. Love the videos, love your store, love your products. So please don't take offense to this.

Why not the bucket filler nozzle? I gave up on pistol grips. But I've not had an Eley. I did retrofit an industrial trigger nozzle years ago. It worked... kinda.

My dad got a little Ryobi 1.2 GPM pressure washer a few years ago, and never could get it to work at his house with a 5/8 hose. It would always surge all the time. With a 3/4 hose it was fine. But at my house I hooked it up with a 5/8 hose and it works fine. Pretty bizarre.

"I don't have time for lifetime warranties... Just buy another one. It's only. $80. Just work for a few more hours to pay for it" I don't know man, sending an email put is probably faster than working a couple extra hours to pay for an $80 garden hose nozzle. 😂

What length hose fits on this reel so perfectly? Is that a 50’, 75’ or 100’?

Okay: some concerns I have; most everything I needed to see was concealed and he stood between the hose and camera which didn’t help. I’m still a bit troubled with the ‘jumper’ hose that comes from the tap on the wall and goes into the body of the reel and connects to the elbow to feed the water into the long hose. I’m wanting to get the 4 wheel cart so that I can pull it around to wherever I want. If I use the 6.5 foot jumper connection, how does that work if I want to move the cart further away from the water source? If I want to move the mobile reel further, how do I feed the water source to the elbow connection point on the reel? Am I missing an idea here? Because isn’t the point of buying the 4 wheel free moving reel to take it to different places? Also I feel awkward about that blue hose that would be used in place of the ELEY hose. He said it doesn’t kink but that is the very first thing it did. Can someone tell me what the advantage would be to use the blue hose instead of the Eley hose? I’m looking at $1,000 of parts from Eley in my shopping cart at their site. I want to be able to move that cart around.

Matt, was this 100’ or 125’ of hose? Eley’s website shows standard capacity for this unit as 125’ (you mentioned 100’ in the video). However I like how this quantity of hose looks on the reel spool.

Did you install Prier hose bibs on the outside of the house Matt? Is it an easy thing to do?

I really like the giraffe tools reel

Don’t open it that way!😂 I did the exact same thing with my first one a week ago. The quick disconnects are legit! A little large but the best I’ve ever seen! Their spray nozzle is also top notch!

Where can I get the same eley outdoor garden hose reel and does it come with hose or do I get the one from your store to fit onto it

Cox makes a garden hose reel....has Matt tested it?

On another note I need to get one of these to install on the side of the house for the wife.

Matt I need my wife to help tighten the fittings lol…… jk Awesome vid

While Eley makes great Reels, I do think a 5/8" retractable hose would be a more OG Solution. Hose Link does a decent job but uses subpar hoses that are too small and the quick connects they use are great for granny in the garden but not for us. That said, my grandma loves hers and has used it countless times over the last 3 years. I've only had to replace parts for the actual fittings once.

Was that a 100’ hose length?

I remember

I hope someone makes a cover for it when it’s not in use, like the cover for outdoor grills. I don’t want that deteriorate fast by the Florida sun.

Does Cox reels not sell a garden hose reel ?

It would be way cooler if it was retractable.

Should be good to fill my aquariums lol....

coxreel doesn't have a solution?

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You better save that Allen key in a drawer

WOW! Just on their website and they don't ship to Canada! Come on it's 2023 get with the world!

120k salary back in days is like now making 250k…. And still not much if you have famil

Too much gaffy stuff! Plus Matt shielding the view of the reel most of the time. How can one see what's going on?

Heavy breather

Great. You are standing in front of the camera when mounting the unti on the wall, so we can't see what the hell you're doing as you are giving a verbal descritpion.