Drinking Water Hose

[Tom Sutor]

If I come across an interesting or high quality product that I might want to use with my TD, I'll think of posting a link here. I came across it in The NY Times Wirecutter. Eley is a company in Nebraska that makes commercial quality watering products with a 10 year warranty and sells only through their internet site. (You won't see these products at Home Depot.) The drinking water safe garden hose is on sale now at 20% off. They are still pricey and I probably won't order one, just stick with my Walmart RV grade hose, which is a stiff piece of crap with junk fittings.....Good luck trying to uncoil it when its cold.

Garden Hoses, Reels, and Watering Tools

Highest-rated hose, reels and watering tools available. Durable aluminum and brass construction. Made with drinking water-safe materials. 10-YEAR Warranty. Midwest family owned.

www.eleyhosereels.com

 

[Jenn]

If I come across an interesting or high quality product that I might want to use with my TD, I'll think of posting a link here. I came across it in The NY Times Wirecutter. Eley is a company in Nebraska that makes commercial quality watering products with a 10 year warranty and sells only through their internet site. (You won't see these products at Home Depot.) The drinking water safe garden hose is on sale now at 20% off. They are still pricey and I probably won't order one, just stick with my Walmart RV grade hose, which is a stiff piece of crap with junk fittings.....Good luck trying to uncoil it when its cold.

Garden Hoses, Reels, and Watering Tools

Highest-rated hose, reels and watering tools available. Durable aluminum and brass construction. Made with drinking water-safe materials. 10-YEAR Warranty. Midwest family owned.

www.eleyhosereels.com

Good suggestion. Thanks! Yes, the white Walmart hoses are hard to manage. I found a version of the white hose in blue that signals potability to me and is a little easier to roll up. I use this on my trailer at my super secret summer camp on whidbey island.
For my campinn I've stopped using the water tanks because I could never find a place to flush out the winterize fluid. I like the water system but I never camp where I would hook up to city water. That said, a shorter, flexible, hose to use for the campinn sure would be nice.
I carry in my teardrop a Go Berkey, the smallest size Berkey, to filter water. I have 2 metal containers to carry filtered drinking water. And carry lots of other ways to carry washing water as needed depending on where I am.

 

[Sweeney]

Although this is undoubtedly a high-quality product, my biggest challenge is finding something compact, as standard hoses simply don't suit my needs. Years ago, around 2012, Camco offered a hose on a white, flat-laying reel where a 25-foot length fit onto a roughly 15-inch plastic spool; I still own two of them.

While this current model lacks the reel entirely, it does pack down quite small. Unfortunately, those original reels are no longer manufactured, but this could serve as a viable space-saving alternative.