I have used this regularly and it's been great but the hose just cracked in half. We have a couple dogs and the small one likes to pee in the house so I use the automatic part fairly regularly and the hose maybe a handful of times since owning it. I went to use the hose again and it just cracked in half! I realized as I tried to wrap the hose around the unit as designed, there was so much pressure on one corner that I was not surprised this happened at all. Just a faulty design for the hose.