Borrowed a customers water supply yesterday to pressure wash his soffits and gutters. He had a hozelock reel bolted to the wall that had a ratchet system built in and an automatic hose layering system along with a swivel. Now I hate most things made by Hozelock but this reel was really good and it was about ten years old too and still going strong. The general idea looked brilliant and should work for us. Only downside was that it probably wouldn't work with microbore.