[Easyclean Windows]

For the last year now i have been using 6mm microbore and thought it was the bees knees.....until it started kinking and once it happens in the same place it kept pin holing.It was a nightmare trying to fix with barbs etc.

Anyway ive now got Gardiners reinforced microbore and i thought it couldn't be any different how wrong i was.

To kirsty well done excellent piece of hose

Look at the difference in diameter i thought it was all the same but its not.

[Easyclean Windows]

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[RO-Sheen]

Looks good Steve, but its not very long. If I were you I would have got longet than that 

[Easyclean Windows]

Thats all i could afford

[Alex Gardiner]

What are the other clear hoses in your pictures?

[Easyclean Windows]

Hi Alex...

the clear hose's are the centre hose from both the red microbore and the yellow i bought from your good selves.

The old one i had (red) has the thinner inner clear tube and the (yellow) you sent me has the more robust heavy duty clear tube.i didnt realise you could get two different microbore hose.

Anyway thank Kirsty for a speedy delivery cracking reel of hose

[Alex Gardiner]

Right, I get it now!  That is the exact reason we stopped using off the shelf microbore and went back to using the original microbore that we had manufactured for us 4 years ago (our first reel is still in current use with no bursts!)

[mike richardson]

is the yellow the new or the red???.

i have the yellow used it for 6 mnths it still kinks.

maybe mine is overworked!

[Clear Vision]

I think the yellow one is the new one?

I have 100m of yellow minibore and have also used it for 6 months and it's never once kinked!

Brilliant hose. A must have

[mike richardson]

how many hours a day do you use your hose for?

mine is usually 8 hrs min

[Clear Vision]

7-8 hours

[mike richardson]

mine must b a crap hose cos the other 1 that we use has been in 4 mnth & no where near as bad

[Easyclean Windows]

The red one is the old microbore ,plastic inner once it kinks in the same place over and over it pin holes and impossible to repair.The yellow is the new from gardiners very heavy duty inner cant see it can ever be damaged very strong and robust.

[JM123]

sorry but it looks exactly the same as the streamline microbore, and coincidentally the exact same as the 6mm microbore that you can buy from altec.

How does it differ alex?

[Alex Gardiner]

It has a slighter tougher inner core. It actually has a slightly larger OD because of this.

I have been supplying 'microbore' to others for over 3 years now and having tried and sold other types, we found that there was too high an incidence of pin-holing. We were getting tired of people wearing it out within  a year and there was too many de-lamination problems within the first week of use by customers (about 5% occurence, usually under 100psi strain). We now have this made exclusively for us in the UK.

We have the first 60m reel we had made still in daily use after 4.5 years and whilst it has many scars on the outer layer (someone did a wheel-spin hill start on it 2 years ago!) it is still going strong.

Having said that, any microbore is better to use than 1/2" hose and is well worth switching to whoever you get it from.

[Easyclean Windows]

I would now only reccomend the microbore from yourselves Alex  as with the other microbore does pinhole very easily and when its under pressure even at 30-40 psi its a nightmare.

Especially when its pinholed and you dont realise, the inside of the van is flooded continuosly .

Another thing i have noticed is that your hose(yellow) is glued to the inner clear tube which was not with the (red) so when i tried to repair the water was coming between both the inside and outside tubing

[JM123]

Thanks Alex, I have been supplying microbore also for about 3 years - was told by a few at the start 'that stuff will never catch on', well I can say the first 50m roll is still in use every day,its of a completely different construction to your own as it is triple layer rubber hosing - absolute joy to use but then again most mini and microbore hoses now are very good.

I think most wfpers now are mini/microbore but if they aren't then I really think its time they should.

[Moderator David@stives]

I have got the micro bore from window cleaning warehouse  and i would say it
is every bit as good as any micro bore.

I have been using it for over a year now and it is excellent.

When you are buying just make sure it has the thick rubber inner core as opposed
to the plastic core.

Dave

[JM123]

dave - look at the post above, we've been supplying the best rubber hose for 3 years now - I like the plastic microbore/minibore but still have to admit nothing comes close to the rubber microbore.

well I would say that wouldn't I?

[ian m]

Hi

Ive been keeping tabs on the micro/minibore experiment since it first became a talking point last year.

I use the winspray hosing, it doesn't kink, pinhlole, tire me out wnding it in, I regularly have to lay it over a very busy road and it still comes through. Only negative factor is the colour, but we put signs out so we are covered legally.

Norn Iron Ian