Flexzilla Garden Hose 5/8 in. x 100 ft., Lightweight All-Weather Water Hose, Durable and Flexible, Leak-Free Connections

Built for Real Use, Not Just Backyard Watering
I’ve got this on a wash-bay setup — garden bib to pressure washer feed. The Flexzilla hose takes daily use, hot/cold swings, and never kinks. Still soft and flexible after months of rolling it up. The fittings are quality, threads cut clean, and it seals every time without Teflon. Worth the few extra bucks.

Great — but keep it out of the sun
I have been using this hose for over 2 years.  It has all the attributes that they claim.  It is lightweight, extremely flexible, and does amazingly well at resisting kinks. It has even proven to be durable — as long as you don’t leave it out in the direct sunlight.  When I need a replacement hose for the north (shady) side of our house, I will probably buy another one of these — but not in chartreuse.I bought the 100 ft. length in the only color that was available at the time: day-glow chartreuse.  About 50 feet of it runs in shade from the hose spigot to where the garden is.  This portion looks pretty good. A little bit of dirt adheres to its minimally sticky surface.  The other 50 ft. gets pulled around on sunny decomposed granite paths. I have had less problems pulling it around than any other hose I have ever used.  As I am walking around watering, I find that it is easy to pull around bends AND I don’t need to go back and straighten out kinks.  However, the surface has become very sticky to the touch. It picks up dirt that can only be scraped (NOT rinsed) off.  The hose looks terrible. Scraping takes a layer of the hose’s plastic off. I will not scrape it, ignore the appearance, and hope that the layer of dirt protects it from the sun so it will last for several more years.

Not light weight, kinks easily, terrible to use
I really wanted to like this hose.I bought it to replace a lightweight expanding hose which popped after a couple of years of use. This is what I’ve typically seen with the lightweight hoses. The core is usually made of something like surgical tubing, with a woven fabric cover. Without water pressure, the tubing collapses and the hose is very light and easy to move around. When it fills up with water, the tubing expands and the woven cover keeps it from bursting. They work great for a couple of years until the weather and the sun’s UV rays degrade the core, at which point they get full of cracks and spring a leak. I’ve never had one last more than a couple of years and I’ve also never had any luck trying to repair one. They work until they don’t and that’s that.I bought the Flexzilla hose because it is supposed to be light and durable, plus Flexzilla is supposed to have a great reputation. In my experience, none of those things are true.To start off, this hose doesn’t feel significantly lighter than the old vinyl hoses that we all grew up with. It’s heavy and somewhat bulky. I have a stainless hose rack bolted to the side of my house, and coiling this thing up to hang is a bit of a chore. It tends to tangle up when you coil it, which means you spend a lot of time working out the tangles. Not the best but I can live with that part.The part I can’t live with is that it will kink shut at the slightest provocation. As soon as I got it, I screwed it onto the hose bib outside and coiled it up on the hose rack. A short while later I went to use it and every few feet it would loop itself into a kinked section that would shut off the water flow. The only way to get it to work was to start at the bib end and completely stretch it out straight. For a 75 foot hose, this takes both time and room.You can’t just unspool the amount of hose you need (say 10 feet or so) because it kinks even when it’s on the hose rack. Every time you use it, you have to fight the whole thing off the rack, straighten it, and then fight it back onto the rack again when you’re done. Even with it stretched out and the water pressure on, it has a tendency to coil up again and kink shut. I tried a handful of times to see if maybe I could work around these problems, but I could never get the silly thing to work. It fought me every step of the way.I used it exactly twice before I unscrewed it from the hose bib and put it back in the box to return. Even the old vinyl garden hoses that we used to use 20 years ago were easier to use. They were heavy and difficult to wind, but they didn’t kink nearly as easily as this one. There isn’t a single thing I liked about this hose.If you have a wind-up hose reel, this hose may work for you. A lot of people sure seem to like it based on the reviews. However, it flat out didn’t work for me no matter what I tried. I hate returning products but this one is going back. I’m getting another expanding hose and resigning myself to replacing it in 2-3 years. At least I’ll be able to use it in the meantime.

I have purchased this garden hose for numerous family members, because it is amazing! Said family members agree. I drag mine everywhere in my yard and have done so for the past four years. It rarely ever kinks, it is fairly light, and even at 100 feet, quite easy to manoeuvre around my yard. I have two of these 100 footers, because I am an avid gardener and I have quite a large yard. I also use it with my pressure washer and it holds up great! I do not see how I would ever purchase a different brand. 100% recommend. Worth every penny.

Ok. The hose does kink initially, as others noted, but once it’s laid out it seems to relax. Doesn’t have the easy connection of the traditional green Flexzillas either. The black sleeves at the end serve little purpose that I can see, and are flimsy vinyl. The fittings are, as someone else noted, cheap plastic, not brass. Will keep it, but will not buy again to replace other hoses. (Yes, I have many hoses. I am the hose queen.)