Is it ture you can't drink from this hose?
1592385
I would say it is a qualified yes.There is nothing in the hose that makes the water unsafe.However, because the hose has to be "pressurized" to extend, you would have to get your drink from a nozzle and teh stream of water is likely to come out very fast. Hope this helps!Dave
1592386
I would say it is a qualified yes. There is nothing in the hose that makes the water unsafe. However, because the hose has to be "pressurized" to extend, you would have to get your drink from a nozzle and teh stream of water is likely to come out very fast. Hope this helps! Dave
1592387
That is "ture." But don't worry about it unraveling when you are trying. The sucker don't work! Best of luck.
1253248
You could, but there probably wouldn't be enough pressure to let the hose work properly. However filling a rain barrel and attaching a soaker to the bottom of the rain barrel should provide enough pressure.
2274553
Unless i have been using it wrong, the hose is where the water is expelled not entered. I tried to pump thru the hose and it wouldn't suck any water up thru the hose. I could be wrong make sure to verify 1st answer.
1220798
The hose does weep residual water after shutting off the water supply valve, however it does not completely drain and requires water pressure to star dripping. I would not expect a free flow of water from a gravity system, UNLESS the rain barrel was raised significantly above ground to provide appropriate "head pressure".
72547
Do not know, a water hose is white, you should not drink out of any hose that is not made to drink from..
193736
hi, You can only bend the coil. Hose does not pull out. When you pull on coil, it measures about 8"Hope this helps
2119993
You can but of course it will reduce the flow somewhat, especially if it is a skinny hose.
1741223
Sorry, Stephen, I do not know the answer to that. Since I don't use my garden hoses for drinking water, it wasn't a concern of mine. Perhaps contact the seller directly.
758277
yes. i did find that not using the hose attached could be a little ackward.
1494588
Yes you can but I found the problem was with the connections - that is here the leaks are at both ends. The hose itself seemsto be durable but the problem is with the connection sites.
1796563
No, since I've never seen the hose I figured I would just ask if it would work. I thought possibly I could just run the water through the hose to fill the container. Our water is terrible and although double filtering sounds unnecessary, I figure it can't hurt.
694536
Interesting question. I think I wouldn't personally drink from any outside hose be it a Pocket hose or a regular hose, but the Pocket hose does have a clear plastic inner tubing where as regular hoses have mostly a black rubber insides which seems to me taste like....well old rubber and could after a winter stand without water running thru it could contain some unpleasant surprises. I have a organic garden also and water it with a underground sprinkler system which uses a Pvc black flex tubing and actually have never thought about any adverse effect health wise. I think most later built homes in the US use the same type of tubing material in their indoor water supply. Interesting question. I think I wouldn't personally drink from any outside hose be it a Pocket hose or a regular hose, but the Pocket hose does have a clear plastic inner tubing where as regular hoses have mostly a black rubber insides which seems to me taste like....well old rubber and could after a winter stand without water running thru it could contain some unpleasant surprises. I have a organic garden also and water it with a underground sprinkler system which uses a Pvc black flex tubing and actually have never thought about any adverse effect health wise. I think most later built... » Read More Interesting question. I think I wouldn't personally drink from any outside hose be it a Pocket hose or a regular hose, but the Pocket hose does have a clear plastic inner tubing where as regular hoses have mostly a black rubber insides which seems to me taste like....well old rubber and could after a winter stand without water running thru it could contain some unpleasant surprises. I have a organic garden also and water it with a underground sprinkler system which uses a Pvc black flex tubing and actually have never thought about any adverse effect health wise. I think most later built homes in the US use the same type of tubing material in their indoor water supply. « Show Less
17386
You can change the primary supply hose to drinking-water safe if you wish. It is secured with stainless hose clamps.
1441129
Yes you can, just loosen the hose stop and tighten where you want the hose to stop
152059
Does attaching a hose to this reel defeat the purpose of buying a lead-free (drinking-safe) hose?
1888350
Its like any other hose, my only problem was it leaked terribly at the nozzel, no matter what we did you got soaked when you turned it on and water was wasted.....
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As far as I know it would be fine. The recommendation to not drink from any garden hose is because of the risk of bacteria growing inside the hose.