A GRM budget friendly garage water hose reel that doesn't leak?!

I put a side real hose setup on the end of my cabinets in my garage near a sink. I was all excited. warm/cold mixed water right there in the garage. hooray. One of these jobbies...

Until I turned it on. berkeleyer pisses water all over the place from the actual "reel" mechanism itself. Hoses seal fine. Ugh.

Given that this is in the garage, I would really prefer it not leak all over the interior grade cabinets and have a wet floor whenever in use.

So, the cheap plastic reel option is probably out. Is there anything that will not leak, that you would use inside a garage or shop, that isn't a $200+ metal industrial style one like this?

The obvious cheap water tight option would be to just eliminate the wind up reel and hang a hose on a hook, but a reel option would be nice.

There's gotta be something between $30 plastic E36 M3 and $200 industrial grade. Harbor Freight? Can I just use a pneumatic setup? etc.

Everyone I have ever bought including $60-$70 ones leaks somewhere.

I bet the $149 Gardena one doesn't leak, but out of my price range.

Pick you favorite wheel, mount it on the wall, coil a quality hose around it. Simple and quality hoses don't leak.

Toyman01 wrote: Pick you favorite wheel, mount it on the wall, coil a quality hose around it. Simple and quality hoses don't leak.

I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some way to get just a higher end water rotator mechanism for the hose pivot device. Then you could DIY with your own wheel of choice as the reel.

In the short term I may just mount a wheel, leave a quick disconnect on the hose to faucet end, and keep another quick disconnect around that is capped. When not in use, pop the cap on so it doesn't leak, then just hang it on the wheel like pictured.

Maybe find a dead pressure washer and steal it's hose?

I've never seen a garden hose one that didn't leak.

oldopelguy wrote: Maybe find a dead pressure washer and steal it's hose?

Thinking along those lines, it looks like you can get a brass hose reel swivel for $40-$50ish. That likely would have higher likelihood of being leak free, or even leak-very-little, which would be fine, since the water is only on when in use.

Amazon Swivel

There's a number of brass hose reel swivels that are $200+ by themselves!

They must be machined from unobtanium.

Mine has always leaked, this spring I took it all the way apart and cleaned and put new gaskets (homemade) in all of the places where plastic pieces came together. I figured if it didn't work I wasn't out anything(it used to be in my front bushes for six years). Lucky and happy me when it leaks not a drop now.

Tl;dr: take it apart, replace all seals, clean, reassemble

oldopelguy wrote: I've never seen a garden hose one that didn't leak.

We make water hoses from industrial black AG 150psi hose - a nice 3/4" x 100' with quality brass GHT fittings crimped on will set you back almost $90. Good hose but a little heavy for the ladies to water he flowers.