Waterfed Pole Hose! Nightmare!

Hi guys, must tried at least 3 types of pole hose and none seem to stay like I want it too, always kinks! I need something that’s going to be nice and like a noodle basically. Can anyone recommend any decent pole hose that doesn’t kink?

I use gardiners hot water pole hose it does get the odd kink but not half as much as others that ive used

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Going tubeless solved my problem.

The Lite 5  polehose is fine but it's a bit stretchy for my taste.

Pole hose is a pest does your head in sometimes well a lot of the time

exceed blue is my favuret so far im now using rhino but i dont think ill get it again going tubless sounds like the way forwould 

We use ionics orange , and exceed innovations blue hose never had a problem with either 

Gardiner green pu and exceed blue both as good as each other, but I’m tubless ?

In my experience, it kinks because we feed a twist into it as we work. If you figure out how to stop it twisting you will solve your kinking problem. 

I've not been on here for a while. What is tubeless??

Kenny Q said:

I've not been on here for a while. What is tubeless??

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A system where the reel hose goes inside and up the pole rather than having say 5m coming from the brush down and hanging out or looping onto a shut off valve.

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Marko067 said:

In my experience, it kinks because we feed a twist into it as we work. If you figure out how to stop it twisting you will solve your kinking problem. 

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We coil our hose up when we put the poles back into the van. It means we have to spin the coil out at the next clean. And as @Marko067says, we also inadvertantly recoil our hose when we are cleaning.

If you use a Univalve @Edward Baskervillethen the very stiff, non stretch nature of the hose we have to use doesn't help with coiling. We occassional get a 'birds nest' of hose at the bottom of the pole which we have to sort out either by disconnecting the hose or turning the pole a few times, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a nightmare.

In the overall scheme of window cleaning its down the bottom of the list of issues. A nightmare for me would still be using ladders to clean windows traditionally. A nightmare would be falling off those ladders again.

My son uses a pf nano with approx 40m of gardiner pu hose hedisconnects and don't never have a problem when reeling in.

however I use approx 20m pu green attached to my100m 6mm hose reel and don't normaly disconnect that often as I just slot my pole back into its holder connected unless I'm changing my pole I.e. Bigger or smaller. But after a day or two the hose can get a little coiled if I don't disconnect. 

Mine got quite bad, but a couple of days ago I emptied the water out of the little hose, then laid the pole flat stretched out the pole hose and kept turning it. I didn’t realise how many times I had twisted it while working.

I do have exceed blue, it can kink, but as previously said, as we work can twist it causing kinks. Every now n then all u have to do is hold pole n basically turn it swveral times n the kibks fall out, if u twist it in right direction whether anti/clockwise.

I have gardiners green pu on my backpack teel,its pretty kinky,but i use it on a small reel,which is advised not to. It does try trip me up.