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My middle school football coach uses this as a lead hose from the water supply to a 4-way splitter to 4 sprinkler to irrigate the practice field. The water supply is a non-reduced, full-hydrant pressure tapped off of a fire hydrant pipe! There is enough pressure that if we turn it on full blast, the sprinklers will flip them selves over. luckily, we split it to 4 of them. This hose bears that full high pressure with out swelling or leaking. I promise you, this little hose gets tortured when the water is on and it survives with no negative effect!

I cut it to the length I needed, attached it to a dehumidifier in my basement and was able to send the water from the machine directly into the drain. Saves a lot of daily maintenance.

I purchased this hose, several years ago. It's a very sturdy hose that is still working well. I keep it outside on my front patio all year around. It's not in inclement weather, as I live in Southern California. For my needs, it works perfect. I'd buy again.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that this package came with not one, but two hoses! I use one hose to water my flowers, and connect the additional hose to this one when I want to wash my car, spray out the garage, hook-up a sprinkler, fill-up a pool, etc.I've had it for a few months now, and use it everyday to water my flowers, and it's at the same high quality, and durability as when I first got it.The price is unbeatable for the quality, and durability of these hoses. It's clearly made of high-quality material, and is very easy to hook up and use. Along with the price, it's a Prime purchase, and was at my door step in two days! These are the types of deals I love to find on Amazon.I haven't written many reviews, and paid the full price for this product, but felt the need to post a review for it because it was an unbeatable price for the quality, durability, and convenience this product provides.

Hose seems to be built stronger than I expected after reading all the reviews. This was a black hose with gold strips. I'm going to use it as a suction hose with a small 12 volt rv pump and believe the 15 feet will allow me to get close to the waters edge with no problem. As many pointed out the fittings are thin metal and may not hold up well with continued use. I plan on splicing into the hose anyway to add barb adapters to fit the 1/2 pump connectors. Since I'm not even sure this will work, I was glad to be able to order a decent quality hose for such a reasonable price. I did take a look at Wal-mart RV hoses and none of the 15 foot ones were of the quality of this hose and the connectors were about the same and the price about a dollar more.

This was a recommended addition to my purchase of the "Frigidaire FAD704DWD Energy Star 70-pint Dehumidifier". I use a gravity drain to a French Drain in the basement. The dehumidifier is about 10' from a hole into the drain and this hose did the job nicely. It comes rolled up and I had to run hot water thru it and then lay it out on the blacktop driveway in the hot sun to get it to lay straight.

It's a hose. Fifteen feet long. Female screw-connect at one end, male screw-connect at the other end, both brass. Fairly durable reinforced rubber construction, but definitely not meant for 'heavy duty' industrial use or permanent sun exposure; there are more durable hoses on the market for that sort of thing. i don't know what else you want me to say, it's just a hose. I use it for draining my dehumidifier, but it would also be good for gardening or other things.

I was fooled by the "Made in USA" tag to believe this might be a quality product worth the $11 I paid for it. It is not! After less than 2 weeks of sparing use, the hose blew out in the middle. The material just burst length-wise and released water all over the place. It's not that I'd have a high pressure on my water line, it's an old hose and I've never had this happen to any of my garden hoses before.Update: I had to change my review from 1 star to 4 star. It turned out that my house pressure reducer had gone bad and I was indeed getting getting supply pressure on all my lines (120 PSI). The fact that the hose burst instead of releasing the fittings at that pressure leaves a bad taste still. I suppose it would have held up ok if the pressure had stayed below 60 PSI.

Good hose, hose in pic is black. I received green which was disappointing. Read description, colors may vary. My fault but they should have made it bigger so consumer can see.

I gave four stars because I thought I bought this black hose in the picture and the one I got was a maroon brick color. Which is fine but misleading. It fits my dehumidifier fine leaks from the connection spot but does the job.

It's a functioninh, 15 foot hose. I use it for a drain off a dehumidifier and it works perfectly for that. One thing to note, the pictured black hose does not even come close to resembling what I actually got, thus why I give it 4 stars. I do realize it states actual product may be a different color, but not only was the color different but so we're the connectors...

Hose is the perfect length to drain the dehumidifier into the basement drain without having to keep the appliance right next to the drain; allows the dehumidifier to be in the center of basement and drain adequately

You get what you pay for. It's made very cheap, but does the job. Just don't use it with high pressure water or leave it in the sun. Simple hose fora very simple job.

On the third time I used it the hose ripped open from right under the metal part where the nozzle would hook up to. They sent me a brand new one and didn't have to ship the old one back so that was why it gets 3 stars.

I had to return the first one because it leaked, then I almost returned the second one for the same reason until a co-worker suggested I tighten it down with a couple wrenches. I'm 6'-2" 200lbs ish, I think it's reasonable to expect that I should be able to tighten this with my bare hands. I attached 2 wrenches and tightened the hose down more, the leaking stopped.The hose does what it's supposed to, move water from A to B, but the connections are of poor quality and thus the 3 star review.

Since I ordered two, this is a "Jekyll and Hyde" Review! Both hoses are thick-walled, appear to be 5/8" inside diameter. Black Hose functions perfectly. Hooked it's littermate Green Hose to it for an extra few feet... With a pistol-grip spray nozzle, Green Hose has a noticeable leak where it joins Blackie. Also, when I "flipped" Greenie the first time get get more length, it kinked. I have no way of tightening a crimp-type hose fitting, so I will live with the leak. Yes, I will order more, I love the length and will take my chances with more factory flaws. I will not return Greenie, not worth the effort and expense.

i got a green nylon reinforced hose and its okay. it bulges a little under high pressure. picture shows a rubber hose which would have been ideal and a 5 star i use rubber hoses and have never been let down

This was a recommended product along with Frigidaire FFAD5033R1 Energy Star Dehumidifier , i thought amazon recommendation would work, unfortunately it leaks, i am going to return it. items looks good, it does not work with Dehumidifier, so be careful buyers don't go with recommended purchaseUpdate: I had to go to Ace Hardware and buy a washer for 20 cents, which made to stop the leak, now it is working, i wish they had supplied that along with the Hose.

Lately, Amazon has been dropping the ball on shipping and packaging. I have more problems with how the product arrived than with the products themselves. This is another case. The hose leader is fine. Quality of the hose and fittings is fine. But the hose was wrapped with plastic strapping that was cinched so tight it crimped the hose in several spots. It will work for what I need it to do, but there's really no excuse for negligently damaging a perfectly fine product.

Good hose - but kinda disappointed that there was no washer in the female connection.connected it to the faucet and water leaked everywhere - once I purchased and inserted a washer - worked great.Not that the is an expensive item - but going to the store to get one is a pain - and since its a few cents - the vendor could have easily included one.fell down on customer ease of use!

I attached this to my dehumidifier with a horizontal spout. After about 3 days, it started to leak from the neck. When I attach it to a regular vertical spout out side there is no leak.

The hose I received is much cheaper than the one pictured. It's the very thin, fake plastic, green kind that kink and flatten very easily. Fittings are pretty low quality too. They leak unless they are screwed on very tight. It works OK for my application (dehumidifier to pump) but I was expecting a lot better quality from the photo.

The one I got was green instead of black (perhaps I didn't pay close enough attention to what I ordered. Additionally, the o-ring started leaking after a couple of days. I had to replace it. (I was using this to constantly drain from a de-humidifier.

For a price of this range I do not expect much from the product. However, I was disappointed when I got the hose out of box. It looks like an old hose with new end fittings installed. The surface is covered with scrathces and lack lusters. I use it outdoors under direct sun. It still works fine after two weeks, but I do not know how long it will last considering it comes in "used" status.

This is, by far, the single most (inadvertently) destructive product that I have ever purchased off of Amazon, and words cannot describe how much I wish I had noticed the other reviews on this item before purchasing it. The end connector on this hose is very poorly made, and leaks continuously... the result being that when it is hooked up to a dehumidifier, any water removed from the air ends up immediately on the floor below. In my case, I did not notice the leak for several weeks... so the situation is very bad.

Water leaks from the dehumidifier. I had attached this hose and next day my basement was partly flooded. I had made sure that it was tightly sealed. Water was still leaking through washer.It defeats the purpose of having dehumidifier when the water is leaking through water hose.

Not compatible with Frigidaire FFAD7033R1 Energy Star Dehumidifier. It leaks water at the end of the hose. Water from dehumidifer went into the hose and then leaked from the hose. Throw it away...

When purchasing a Frigidaire dehumidifier (model FFAD7033R1), Amazon displayed a "recommendation" that others often bought this hose along with the dehumidifier. It uses VERY cheap connectors. As others have noted in their reviews here, it leaks at the connector swivel point on the critical end and is unacceptable for use as a drain hose with a basement dehumidifier. The result is drip, drip, drip, at the connection, so that a lot of the moisture removed from the air ends up as water on the floor near the unit.Unfortunately, I did not take the time to fully read the reviews for this low-cost hose and essentially wasted $6.50 based on the Amazon recommendation. It would not be economically to return it (it would cost more than the price to ship it back). Also, in my case, I cut the opposite end down to obtain a better length (about 5 feet) since my dehumidifier is right next to floor drain.Do not buy this. Save the money. A trip to the local Home Depot or garden supply store would have been a much better idea in my case.

This hose lasted a week before breaking . The compression fitting under the female screw cap constantly leaked and i just gave up on it. New Rubber washers I had - Teflon tape - nothing worked but to cut the end off and put a universal end on that I had. Look at the discoloration too..You get what you pay for on this one.

The connector hose that I received a bad one and it was unusable. It was rolled very tightly into a small circle causing the hose opening in the hose to be collapsed in multiple locations down the length of the hose. The wall of the hose was so hard that it could not be unrolled and the lumen of the hose could not be opened where it was collapsed. This hose appeared as though it was very old and it had been around for a long time. Therefore, this hose was definitely not usable. I called the Frigidaire company and they are sending me a replacement hose but I have not received it as of now. This is a disappointing experience.