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nigelm

nigelm

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I want to keep a reel of flat hose on board for filling the freshwater tank if there isnt one available in a marina or where ever I may park up .
I've seen a food grade one on a reel in a swindelry for around the £40 mark or there's a garden variety for less than half that , now is it worth the extra for a special "boaty" one or just go for the other kind ?

What do others use/do .........?
 
nigelm said:
I want to keep a reel of flat hose on board for filling the freshwater tank if there isnt one available in a marina or where ever I may park up .
I've seen a food grade one on a reel in a swindelry for around the £40 mark or there's a garden variety for less than half that , now is it worth the extra for a special "boaty" one or just go for the other kind ?

What do others use/do .........?
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teliflex hose
 
Karouise said:
So long as you run the water through for a bit before filling up is there a big risk? But then again I dont drink water from the tank without boiling it for tea / coffee etc For cold drinks I use supermarket 'value' water at 19p for 2 litres!
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That's kinda wot I thought :rolleyes:

Except the value water is now value Stella :rolleyes:
Haven't tried brushing ones teeth in beer tho :D
 
hoses designated "potable" do not have plasticisers in them. Those are nasty chemicals which leach out into the water, especially if the hose is warm.

Potable water hoses are expensive for very good reasons.
 
errr, I bought a bog-standard cheapo hose from B&Q and have been using it for potable water for four years. everyone drinks the water out of my tank, but then we get through it quickly so it's always 'fresh'. I do only fill tank after having washed down boat first, so it's been running a while before going in. And i do disinfect the tank too. I heard that the flat ones are a bit rubbish for the money and they don't actually save that much space.
 
nigelm said:
I want to keep a reel of flat hose on board for filling the freshwater tank if there isnt one available in a marina or where ever I may park up .
I've seen a food grade one on a reel in a swindelry for around the £40 mark or there's a garden variety for less than half that , now is it worth the extra for a special "boaty" one or just go for the other kind ?

What do others use/do .........?
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Bought a 50' garden 'flat hose' off flea-bay a while back: £12.99 inc P&P
Does the job it's supposed to.
 
I'm afraid I don't have enough imagination to go shopping for hoses and seem to end up paying chandlers' prices. After my last hose developed a dissecting aneurysm in a spectacular fashion I bought an expensivish hose which works fine, but I have had to discard the totally useless plastic reel thingy it came on. Not only did it always stick but it also self-destructed.

The advantage of the stronger hoses is that you can have them turned on but closed off at a nozzle without harm.
 
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