Automatic Garden Hose Reel

An automatic garden hose reel is exactly what it claims to be. A garden hose reel that automatically, meaning no manual winding on your part, winds the hose onto itself. Sometimes called a retractable garden hose reel by some, it’s the ultimate in laziness. These are pretty popular units for those who wind up their hose or hoses often or always instead of leaving them out. It helps to keep your lawn or garden looking neat and tidy.

There are different types of units available, including ones that have an included hose and ones where you use your own hose, different capacities, as well as choices of power. Electric powered ones are common, and these often have rechargeable batteries to you can easily use them anywhere that is convenient. There are also water powered units where the energy to rewind the hose come from the flowing water pressure itself – pretty neat!

A very popular water power one is the Reel Smart 125-Foot Water Powered Retractable Garden Hose Reel.

It's designed to be floor mounted, meaning essentially non portable use, takes 125 feet of 5/8 inch (full size) hose, has an "auto sort guide" that helps prevent the hose from binding.

Some people report that instead of floor mounting it they simply anchor it with a heavy decorative item such as placing a top on it which also turns it into a table.

Owner comments include "Great Product" by R. B.Garrett and "LOVE IT" by P. Haskew from Birmingham, Alabama. Some people reports do report some issues including the hose sometimes being difficult to pull out. Click Here to see the reviews.

The Suncast Powerwind Automatic Rewind Garden Hose Reel is a popular electric powered hose reel which holds 100 feet of standard garden hose.

It's battery powered and conveniently foot petal operated, coming with a rechargeable battery and charger unit.

Attractive styling, a hose guide which winds the hose neatly onto reel, and back up hand crank operation round out this unit.

Most reviews are quite positive and include comments like "This really is a great product," by Joseph D. Martin and "The Best Product," by Lorelei Y. Thorpe of Tinley Park, Illinois. Others comment that the hose is hard to pull out.
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