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From: heliotis@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Help with hoses - (nf)
Message-ID: <2042@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 08:46:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 08:46:46 1983
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When we first bought our house four years ago,  I went out to buy some
rather good (but not top-of-the-line) VINYL garden hoses.  They are still
doing just fine.  I have decided that a small amount of preventive care
can make a mediocre hose last a long time.

I try to keep it neatly wound up when I'm not using it (which is not trivial to
do because winding up a hose tends to twist it).  Also, in the winter
(I live in the eastern Great Lakes area), I try to put the hoses in the
basement when I am not using them, but they have been left out to freeze
with water in them a few times in late fall and early spring.

As a point of information, my hoses seem to have a transparent layer on the
outside through which one can see some kind of criss-cross pattern for
reinforcement.

In summary, I do NOT believe that rubber is the only answer.

					Jim Heliotis
					heliotis@Rochester
					allegra!rochester!heliotis
					seismo!rochester!heliotis