Collapsable drinking water hose... yay or nay

Good for a spare, when you need more hose, but if you step on one of those on gravel, you have an expensive soaker hose.

Caveat, this is experience with that type of hose, but not that particular one.

Sorry not real world but what I know about such hoses: turning on the water expands the hose to it's full length. Turning off the water causes the hose to contract and most of the water is expelled out the end as it collapses. Most are not made to have full pressure on them for an extended time such as when a sprayer is attached to the end or it is attached to the camper.
Reviews indicate that this one is better than the others which seem to leak at the fittings in short order.
So what are we talking about; a $30 decision?
We use a white hose and always fill the FW tank then coil up the hose allowing the water to drain out; but that's us.

I don't think you have to stuff it back in the box to store it. You could coil it like a conventional plastic/rubber hose, but in tighter coils. Or hang it somewhere, open ends down, which is what I try to do before storing any water hose.
I have a similar hose, but have yet to deploy it in the real world.
I'll let you know how it goes.

We had the "flat hose" years ago. It wasn't a "coil" type, it went flat when there was no pressure. Granted it was a space saver, but it failed under constant pressure (water spigot on) after about 2 months. It literally blew up like a gigantic balloon and popped! I'll never use anything but a conventional hose now.

The problem I see with these hoses is that you always have to deploy the entire length of the hose even when the water tap is only a few feet away. You can't leave most of it coiled up like a conventional hose.

TNGW1500SE wrote:
I wonder how well they dry out inside when not in use? I

Not really sure if you could ever really dry out a regular hose either. I would suspect the inside of our white drinking hoses stay pretty damp unless maybe you leave it out in the sun open on either end for some time.

I wonder how well they dry out inside when not in use? I always try and get the water out of the hose before I put it away and never screw the ends together. Looks like a collapsed hose wouldn't dry inside.