What's up everybody welcome back to the Durban compound if you haven't met me already My name is Devon Durban so today on the channel. We are doing a one year update on the flexil a garden hose So I'm gonna hurt some feelings and I'm gonna stir the pot on this topic so you stay tuned All right guys, so I'm bringing this video to you about a year and six months after owning this hose I did a previous video on this hose a while back last summer You can check it out in the upper right hand corner if you'd like This hose is definitely awesome. So I'll start out with saying that I love this hose It is an awesome garden hose A lot of people don't like it and it's controversial and a lot of people make comments that it's a crappy hose and it Kinks all the time This is not a hose for lazy people so if you're lazy and you just want to have a have a garden hose on a reel and You know just yank it out whenever you need to and literally just pull the entire hose down the down the yard and not have to mess with anything You want to be lazy about garden hose. This is not the garden hose for you This this does take a little bit more time to get out and it takes a little bit more time to put away But this hose will last you a lifetime. It's not like those other crappy hoses they get all cracked up and Just are just junk so I like these hoses these poly hoses can be left outside in the winter I'm not saying that you should abuse your hoses like that or leave them hooked up to your hose bibs through the winter But if you were to forget about it and the temperature drops below freezing this hose is going to have a lot more You know a lot more flexibility and it's gonna expand with that freezing water Instead of just cracking your hose all the crap just because you forgot that one time So this hose is forgiving this hose is you know It doesn't look like it's faded much. It's still really really neon color which I like I could wipe it down I didn't wipe it down because I'm making a video about it So you can clean it off if you'd like you can keep it you know dirty from rolling across the ground It is what it is But I think this hose is definitely gonna hold up for many years to come and I don't see any deterioration in it whatsoever so let's Let's get down to deterioration first so Okay, so this is an example of a one of those non-kink hoses. This is made by Technor Apex company Basically this has a no-kink spine down it this hose is about the same age as my flexzilla I've had to replace the end on it because it was plastic So you know I had to put a new end on it and this hose is cracked in multiple places. I'm gonna roll in some pictures here of Some areas of this hose that have cracked through and you can actually see the ribbing inside the rubber hose So in my opinion it didn't hold up very well So I think these are about the same age and they sit outside Both of these hoses were taken in and stored in the attic and cold storage Over the winter so it's not like I misused and abused them. They're the same It basically treated the exact same way And it's just how one wears compared to the other so a cheaper hose yes But a better quality hose not even close so Let's talk about I'd like to get out this flexzilla and show you exactly what I'm talking about It's not a lazy man's hose All right guys, I'm gonna do the best to demonstrate exactly what I'm talking about here Pull this hose completely off my hook here and you just throw it down and then you want to go ahead and pull it out This hose isn't gonna work for you like that You're gonna get a lot of kinky you're gonna get exactly what it's doing right there You know lazy people when they want to get out their hose They just throw it down on the ground and they're going to fight with that knot there And now I have to come in here Figure out my knot. Okay, maybe it'll be easier if I apply water to it Hey look I got a leak in my cheap I got a leak in my cheap handle here. All right Okay, now maybe it's a little easier when you put water on it Okay, now I'm still fighting with it This is how lazy people get out their hose and they fight with it and they say that hose is suck and They are just Oh, this hose is oh this hose is such garbage. That's what they say But it's really all in the user All right, I'm gonna show you guys exactly how I put the hose up every time It when I say that it takes a little time and effort to put it back the correct way You know just take a little bit of time and coil your hose up the right way and then you won't have to worry about it doing dumb things in the future If you wanted to put this on a reel This flexzilla hose is not not good for a reel It has a lot of it has a lot of elasticity So it's going to It's definitely going to stretch when you put it on a hose reel So you know if you're trying to do that and you pull it out You'll find that you need to put it away with a pressure on it You do want to put it on a hose reel You will have to do it with the with a pressure on it Okay, so that's how I put my hose away every time Coil and it makes sure that you know you're twisting it so that it all lines up. It's nice and neat All right guys for this round I'm going to take out the hose in a way that you should do with a flexzilla hose All right, you know go ahead and pull it out and show you that it doesn't kink up Is it that amazing? Isn't that amazing that I was able to pull out the hose put some pressure on it and it didn't kink at all I wasn't lazy about it I just went ahead and took a little bit of extra time to get my hose off the hook and got it unreeled and Hey, guess what didn't kink on me if you do get a kink It's probably because you're trying to go around something or you're not spinning the hose as you come out It uncoils just like an extension cord. So if you're using an extension cord And you know you come up on a kink. It's probably your fault because you're not spinning The extension cord in order for it to not kink. So that's another thing that I like about this hose This hose even if you kink it and you kink it really bad It has no memory. It goes right back to where it was So you can kink it in multiple places. You can do whatever you need to do to it or whatever you want and It has no memory. It goes right back to where it was when you you start kinking those crappy rubber hoses or those hoses with no kink spines All you do is tear up that spine There are some big quality contractor hoses out there to have a metal spine down them All you do when you kink that bad boy over is you crimp that that Wire in there and you never get it back. It has no memory. It will stay kinked It will always be a trouble spot for you So you might as well cut the hose off there and put a fitting on both ends and call it two hoses at that time So I think this hose is definitely worth every bit of the dollar that you spend on it. This is the five eighths variant Or roll in some pictures of the O rings That it comes with O rings folks, and you know you get those nice anodized crimped fittings on the end They're nice and protected. They have the green flexilla. I think it's just an awesome hose You know if you disagree with me whatever But you're probably one of those people that is is lazy about you know getting it out and putting it away Yes, it does take some extra time. I wouldn't recommend it on a hose reel but You're never going to find the best hose I think this is definitely a nine out of ten The only thing that I would you know like to see on this is a little bit less Alastacity to be able to go on a hose reel so that you can pull it out With no water on it and it will be a lot more user friendly for people that wanted on a reel I don't use hose reels. So it really is You know not it's it's a non-issue in my book So I hope you guys like the video It's a little controversial. I hate hearing people complain about this as a crappy hose because I Absolutely love this hose and everybody that I've recommended it to I've shown them hey It's gonna take you a little extra time to to get this out putter away and once you have that understanding once you accept that That you need to take a little extra time for it to work great for you then boom nobody has any trouble with it. So I highly recommend this hose to you if you you know if you agree with me Give me a thumbs up if you disagree give the thumbs down whatever you're into I'm coming out with videos every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at noon I hope to see you click subscribe and ring that bell so you're notified and if you're one of my subscribers already I guess I'll see you guys in the next video