Giraffe Tools Retractable Heavy Duty Hose Reel, 1/2" x 82FT Automatic Rewind Garden Hose Reel with 360° Swivel Base, Ground Mounted for Lawn, Patio, Concrete Floor & Yard Watering

This is perfect for my needs. The hose works great, easy to pull out, easy to retract. I even recommended it to our Pest Control Technician who saw it and took a picture of it so he could buy his wife a Mother's Day present. I like that it is compact, and neat. The hose has a place to hang on the side so it's not getting in the way, and helps to avoid tripping over. Good water flow.

I am very pleased with this retractable hose, I have a neverleak hose for front yard but put this in backyard I needed something I could mount in the ground so I could put away in the winter. This was pretty easy to set up and very comparable to the neverleak quality. Iam 83 and 100lbs so this works for me. Glad I purchased it. I

I really wanted to like this one. I have been looking for a retractable garden hose reel that mounts in the ground, and I don't see many options out there. I got the one that is around 100 ft long. The reel lasted about 2 weeks. After several uses, the retractable mechanism stopped working properly. It would not fully retract the garden hose. Since I did not keep the original box and I also needed a garden hose to keep watering the newly seeded lawn, I contacted Amazon to send me a replacement before I ship back the original unit. Amazon's customer service was amazing, and they shipped a replacement unit right away. I installed the new unit and shipped the original unit back, only to find out that the replacement unit was even more defective. :( Now Amazon tells me that I have to purchase a 3rd unit, and then ship back the 2nd one. Apparently, there is an investigation of why this is happening twice and they won't send me a replacement like they did the first time. These suffer from a bad design 1) while waiting for the 2nd replacement, I decided to see if I could fix the first one and make it wind back up. I noticed that the internal parts are all plastic. The hose goes out of the enclosure through a white plastic guide that moves left and right along a horizontal axle. The white plastic guide plays an important role of winding the hose neatly so it fits inside the enclosure. Without this mechanism, the hose will wind up all in the center of the reel and it will become a large "ball" that will not fit inside the enclosure. The problem is that the white guide moves left/right when the horizontal axis rotates. The rotation comes from a plastic belt on the right that is attached to a small white gear wheel. That plastic belt falls off the little gear very easily and it stops rotating the entire mechanism. The fix is simple - use your fingers to guide the belt back on the gear. But it will fall off again after a few days, so you have to keep doing that all the time. 2) When I got the second replacement hose, the same issue was happening but pretty much every time I used the hose. After further investigation, I noticed that the right side of the black plastic reel is deformed, and as it rotates when pulling/retracting the hose, it makes contact with the same white belt and pushes it off the small gear - again disabling that entire mechanism. This is a classic example of a good product, with a somewhat good design but poor execution. Cheap parts that bent easily, there is a lot of play, and they need to redesign that gear so the white belt cannot slide off of it.

Nice style for those who can mount to a wall. Fast retracting, functions very well even after days in the sun. Very easy to install, all you need is a mallet! Love the quality as well, the connectors are very Sturdy

I’ve only used this a few times but I’m impressed. It works exactly the way it’s supposed to. As you get close to the end of the hose it’s a bit of a workout pulling against the spring that will eventually retract the hose, but this is to be expected since it has to reel in 130’ of hose. There is a lot of plastic in the construction, but I suppose this helps to keep the weight manageable. It looks like it will be particularly easy to unmount to store inside during the winter. I’m pleased with the purchase, it’s nice looking and practical for my needs. If I didn’t need 130 feet of hose, I would have purchased one with a shorter length which I expect would be easier to fully extend.

This retractable hose is working great for us. We bought the floor mount which was so easy to install on our deck. It makes watering our deck plants easier and there’s no hose to trip over. I highly recommend this product.

I know I saw a negative review on this item so I passed it up initially and bought another version that actually stands up off the ground a bit. The thing with that other one is it doesn’t retract if you tug on the hose, you actually have to walk back to the unit and pull on it before it’ll retract. This one has no issues in doing that and I really do love that. I actually put this right on the ground and used the steaks to pound them in to keep it attached to the ground. I do like that option because come winter. I will actually move this unit inside and pull up the steaks. This will lessen any sort of where that happens on the unit because of the Weather elements. I do like that about this unit.

Works great! It can easily be moved to a different location if needed. The hose pulls out smoothly and retracts well.

Well designed If you don't want wall mounted

Have not used yet, however it appears of excellent quality.

CAN BE MOST EASIER OF YOU TO EVER SEE AS A PORTABLE UNIT, SITTING ON THE GROUND. SUPPOSED TO BE 365* DEGREE SWIVEL, BUT AS IT JUST ARRIVE (THX TO AMAZON PRIME) I JUST PULLED IN OUT OF THE BOX. IT IS HEAVIER THAN IT LOOKS, BECAUSE OF 80’ OF HOSE NEATLY WOUND AROUND THE SPINDLE. START HOSE TO THREAD ONTO THE INPUT ATTACH TO THE FAUCET ON YOUR HOUSE. IT APPEARS TO BE HEAVIER THAT IT LOOKS!!! SET ON A TABLE OR SIMILAR FLAT SURFACE. WORKS BESET ON CONCRETE OR PAVERS. VERY IMPRESSED AND WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!

I was looking for a deck mount swivel auto retractable hose reel and this one fits the bill. Works as well as the much more expensive ones. The hose is thinner so less water pressure but that’s not a problem. Extension and retraction works great though retraction spring is quite strong and it retracts much faster than my expensive Gardena wall mount. I use my hand to slow it down.

Small pipe diameter, very thin outer shell