{"id":211,"date":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/find-a-garden-hose"},"modified":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"find-a-garden-hose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/home-tips\/landscape-decks-fences\/find-a-garden-hose\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Garden Hose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: Could you please advise me where I can find a good 1\/2&#8243; garden hose that<\/p>\n<p>doesn&#8217;t kink every time you try to unroll it? I am willing to pay to get a good HD 1\/2&#8243; hose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Thinking that commercial hoses would probably be better than what is sold to consumers, I called an irrigation supply company out of the Yellow Pages. Although they sell commercial hoses, they recommended that to get the very best hose available, ask if you can call a company that specializes in rubber products, order a hose, custom made to the length you wanted, complete with brass fittings. I remember that hoses used to be made of rubber when I was a kid, so I am sure he is right.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend you go through the same exercise in your town. Look up Irrigation Suppliers in your Yellow Pages and see if they sell rubber hoses or can refer you to a specialty supplier. If not, look up Rubber Suppliers in the Yellow Pages. You&#8217;ll pay more in the beginning, but it should give you many years of reliable service. Next time you need to locate a reliable gardener, landscaper or other type of home improvement or maintenance specialist, visit us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeadvisor.com\/\">homeadvisor.com<\/a>, join as a member (it&#8217;s free) and let us help you find the ideal service professional in your area.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><em>Kathy Maynard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Could you please advise me where I can find a good 1\/2&#8243; garden hose that doesn&#8217;t kink every time you try to unroll it? I am willing to pay to get a good HD 1\/2&#8243; hose. A: Thinking that commercial hoses would probably be better than what is sold to consumers, I called an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-advice","category-landscape-decks-fences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}