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Al

  I would ask Bob from Pressure tek but I also think  That I read that the hose will break down after a few years.

Roof Cleaning By A&E wrote:

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I dont run the love though hose reels anymore. I use a QC and bypass the hose reel.

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Fuk Hose reels, we wrap the freaking hose around a plastic box that holds our leaf blowers, and other stuff.

We quit using Hose reels several years ago, never looked back.

NONE of them hold up, or the swivels either, they will break or leak all over, and ruin your chit.

They restrict Flow, and cut down your pressure as well.

MJ wrote:

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Same story here. We hang our hose around the reel, expensive hose hook.

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 I finally got tired of asking hose reel makers to make hose reels for OUR purposes, that would not break, or compromise performance.

Roof Cleaning is not Pressure Washing or Lawn Spraying, where 500 plus PSI Pumps are used. Our pumps barely make 100 PSI, and most will not even do that ! Our Brothers risk their lives trying to shoot parts of roofs on 40 ft ladders, on windy days. We don't need no restrictive hose reels choking our pumps, compromising performance.

Sorry, but Stainless Steel don't mean Chit, for our use, especially if it is welded.

The weld destroys the little Chlorine resistance the Stainless Steel once had, and bye bye hose reel manifold!

IMHO, buying any hose reel with a stainless steel manifold, is like marrying a girl you know is about to turn Gay.

What is needed is this, a hose reel with a schedule 80 PVC Manifold, or a Hose reel with a Hastelloy Manifold, and a DOUBLE Seal swivel, made out of the same stuff.

The Manifold must be at least 5/8 inside diameter, so as not to effect flow.

The Lawn Spray guys will eat these up too, because the Round Up they spray is also hard on Stainless.

As long as we keep buying POS Hose Reels, they will never give us what we really need.