While we were shopping for the bedroom, we happened upon these at Target:

A little back story: we’d been looking into these expandable hoses for awhile when we went to a home show that a friend had organized. One of the vendors was selling the DAP version of the expandable hose and they gave us a little demonstration of two varieties of hoses.

Basically, this is supposed to be the king of those retractable hose things that seem to be popping up everywhere these days.

And hopefully, they will live up to the hype.

We’ve used them a couple of times so far, and here are my impressions as of right now:

1. It’s awesome how much they really expand. It is really nice that they don’t take up much space when you aren’t using them.

2. There’s a lot of leaking, but we attached them to an already leaky hose so it wasn’t a good test. The hose itself seems good, but we need to work on our connections.

3. It came with a valve to easily turn them on and off. Bonus!

4. Basically, it’s helpful for covering a longer distance with less hose, and it’s kink free, at least so far. So, it does what it’s advertised to do.

We still need to try them out for a bit longer before we can for sure recommend them but we’d love to hear if you guys have used them and if you like them? Which brand did you choose and how do you like them? Please share!