How to Use a Hose Reel

A hose reel stores a garden hose in a neat housing when not in use. This keeps the hose from destroy & the hose owner from injury, because the hose is not snaking across the yard to be tripped over or mangled with a lawnmower. A hand crank on the side of the reel makes it simple to wind up the hose for storage. Afterward, the hose reel can be moved to a corner of the yard or slid behind some shrubbery near the outside wall faucet where it remains out of sight until it is needed again.

Instructions

1 Connect the hose to the outside wall faucet by threading the brass hose nozzle counter-clockwise on the faucet. Turn on the water by twisting the faucet knob counter-clockwise.

2 Open the cover on the hose reel by lifting straight up to pull out the end of the garden hose.

3 Peel the hose from the reel as far as necessary to reach the desired length for spraying the hose.

4 Turn the crank handle on the side of the hose reel counter-clockwise to retrieve the hose and coil it back on the spool inside the reel when finished watering the garden or lawn.

5 Shut off the water to the hose by turning the faucet knob clockwise.

Tips & Warnings

Disconnect the hose from the wall faucet when the temperature dips below freezing (32 F or 0 C). This prevents the pipe from cracking.