I am very disappointed in the product and see they are advertising again. I would stay away from this company and product! You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/p/Xhose-5-8-in-Dia-x-50-ft-Pro-Dac-5-High-Performance-Lightweight-Expandable-Garden-Hose-1256/305896879" on this server. Value for money. Considered all of the above as well as the quality of the design and materials, the length of warranty and the price. it’s reinforced high grade drag resistant DAC-5™ polyester outer layer is specially woven to make it tougher and stronger than ever! They do exist! There are hoses that say they’re safe for drinking. We bought one from Home Depot. It happened to be blue. It costs more than your regular hoses. Nice to know, but we’ve never really needed that extra feature (we use it for washing cars, watering non-fruit/veg plants), so we probably wasted our money. Might be good for your uses, however.

ONE OF MY 75′ BLEW A HOLE AFTER A MONTH OF NORMAL USE , IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOSE. AFTER ANOTHER WEEK THE NEXT ONE BLEW IN THE MIDDLE ALSO. Bought a DAP X-Hose Pro for my wife to use gardening. First time she used it, it leaked around the brass fitting. As much water came around the fitting as came out of it. No help from the company. More junk. Thought with the DAP name it would be better quality, but sad to say, that is not the case. So thanks for giving this your “Thumbs up rating” based on not actually using it for one second. You are just influencing people into buying this piece of crap when clearly every should be staying away from it until they work out their quality and customer service issues.I took the hoses outside and put them to the test. Both hoses performed flawlessly. With a nozzle attached the water pressure was good. Maybe not as good as a regular hose, but the stream coming out reached maybe 80% of the distance of a regular hose with the same nozzle. The valves are a nice touch and make switching nozzles or attaching/removing a second hose really easy. I like that the hose drains itself of water as it contracts. The weight of an empty hose is extremely light; maybe about 2 pounds. Storing a single 75′ hose takes about the space of a 10″x12″x6″ bag.

I have returned 4 x-pro hoses for leaks. Now I have 8 hoses, 2 25′, 2 50′ and 2 75′ that don’t leak. Happy? Not quite. 6 of them have lost their on/off turn knobs. The valves have no dents, we use them carefully. I assume they were on when I go them, but I’ve been using them a lot lately and realized that I can’t turn them off without having a spray head. I really need replacement knobs and the screws for them. Customer service told me that they would replace a few hoses but I try to be environmentally correct and replacing the hoses seems to be a really bad idea. I’m also in California where water rationing is a serious reality. Please send me the replacement parts. When I took the Xhose home and unboxed it, I was immediately not that overly impressed with the quality. It felt kind of cheap and a bit plasticy – the connectors on either end of the hose as well as the spray gun attachment seemed poor quality. (It seems Xhose have since remedied this by introducing metal connectors with their Xhose Pro)

I bought the hose a few months ago after seeing it advertised on TV. Delivery took about 6 weeks. I used it for a couple of weeks according to the instructions and then it sprang a leak. Four weeks later about two feet of the seam leaked rendering it useless. This is a lousy product. Don’t believe the hype. Same story, got it home, unboxed it and went eagerly to water the garden (things were wilting by this point from yesterdays efforts). I would like to find more about the non-potable warning that all these collapsible hoses come with. They warn you not to drink out of them, fill pet water dishes, or things like that. It makes me wonder if it’s safe to water my vegetable garden with it. Digging a little deeper, they claim this is only because, by their nature, hoses are laying on the ground being exposed to germs and stuff. If that’s the case, why don’t regular garden hoses come with the same dire warnings? I just got my hoses today after waiting 9 weeks to get it in my hand. I connected it to the spigot and turned the water on…BOOM it swelled up and popped and started spraying water everywhere!!