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Title: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Tom White on March 14, 2013, 08:47:01 pm

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend where to get 100 meters of microbore from?  Does anyone know if there's any sales/deals about?

Cheers

Tosh

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 14, 2013, 08:54:17 pm

1. Have you turned the old one around?

2. Gardiners cheapest 100m is £38 plus vat and delivery - make the order up to £45 for free delivery. I bought two week before last.

Tip - once it is on the reel, pull it out straight and run some warm (immersion temperature) water through for five minutes so that the "memory" of the kinks gets removed.

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Tom White on March 14, 2013, 09:08:06 pm

Cheers Gold.  I'm off to order now

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Tom White on March 14, 2013, 09:11:32 pm

Gardiner's is outa stock!  :'(

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: richard jagger on March 14, 2013, 09:14:56 pm

Buy thermobore is a lot better.
All Gardeners hose out of stock must be changing to a new supplier.

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Tom White on March 14, 2013, 09:18:05 pm

Quote from: Smithie on March 14, 2013, 09:14:56 pm

Buy thermobore is a lot better.

It's out of stock too.

http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/thermobore-100m-reinforced-hose-6mm-id.html

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Frankybadboy on March 14, 2013, 09:29:24 pm

varitech streamline hose mate ;)

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Tom White on March 14, 2013, 10:21:29 pm

Quote from: franky-feel-the-love-boy on March 14, 2013, 09:29:24 pm

varitech streamline hose mate ;)

Cheers, mate, but I've e-mailed Alex to see when he's getting in new stock.  I want theirs, the tight-wad I am.  I'm in no hurry.

The varitech stuff just looks like normal hose.

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Lee GLS on March 14, 2013, 10:41:06 pm

Thermobore is horrible if you are using cold water.

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Griffus on March 15, 2013, 01:34:38 am

http://www.thecleaningwarehouse.co.uk/hose--hose-coils-399-c.asp

Great supplier

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Mike #1 on March 15, 2013, 07:29:48 am

Thermobore is good even with cold water takes 3,4 wks to become more managble but good hose . Mike

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Frankybadboy on March 15, 2013, 07:43:57 am

Quote from: Tosh on March 14, 2013, 10:21:29 pm

Quote from: franky-feel-the-love-boy on March 14, 2013, 09:29:24 pm

varitech streamline hose mate ;)

Cheers, mate, but I've e-mailed Alex to see when he's getting in new stock.  I want theirs, the tight-wad I am.  I'm in no hurry.

The varitech stuff just looks like normal hose.

well thats what you need,4years old  my two old reels of it and it still being used

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: dazmond on March 15, 2013, 08:26:54 am

i had problems with gardiners normal microbore.it started bubbling up after a few months and split in a few places.to be fair though alex sent me 100m of replacement hose.ive still got it  spare in the packaging as i bought some thermobore.

IMO thermobore is really excellent hose.i use a cold system too.its very tough and very managable even in cold weather.

my hose gets driven over hundreds of times a week and ive had no problems with thermobore since ive been using it which is over a year ago now.

regards

Title: Re: Best hose/place to buy - microbore 6mm - 100 meters?
Post by: Dave Willis on March 15, 2013, 03:48:25 pm

I thought Thermobore was brilliant. It's not perfect though, mine has grown with warm water and goes rock hard with cold and has started coming apart after a year. Probably the best feeling hose I've used even if it doesn't look like it's going to last that long.
I've had some shocking hoses in the past. The best was some Streamline I had years ago that went on and on (cold only).