We only use Gilmore brand, 'flexogen' at our nursery. In my opinion, theres a great deal of difference in your hoses. Any hose will kink if you try hard enough, but flexogen is pretty difficult to kink. It lasts a lot longer than anything I've used, and if you can find the crimping tool, you can replace the fittings when they get bad. (usually, in our circumstance, from being driven over) If you just need a decent hose for around the house, I would take a look at that black 'craftsman' hose from sears. Its a bit cheaper, and a pretty good hose for regular use. Won't kink. If you need something for heavy-duty use, like a nursery, I really can't recommend anything but the flexogen.

It's bulk soaker hose. I've have poor luck with hoses near 100'. Works better on shorter runs. Make sure you use a pressure regulator. I'm not crazy with the snap on coupling. I use hose repair couplings. I've found the hose made to a specific length (25', 50', etc)are easier to use and come with all fittings installed.

I have been selling some of my customers the aqua-stop hoses from Bosch. These hoses are a hose with-in a hose and have a water cut off feature that engages if a hose ruptures. They don't require any electrical connections and are a straight one for one replacement for a washers regular hoses. The hot and cold water hoses is Bosch part number 646220 and 646221. Most of them I sell go to condo owners and customers with second floor laundry's. If you go to the Bosch parts website you can put in model WFMC8440 and find the hoses used on this model. Here is a link that might be useful: Bosch Parts website

I think what Green-Designs is pointing out is what I also have: that the coliform isn't coming from deep in the rock formation where your well is drawing its water. It's coming from some point in the casing, piping, supply lines etc. that brings the water up to the surface and then on into your house and out through the tap. Unless your well is like mine here on the farm (a hole lined with laid up stones) it was drilled into rock, then above the rock the hole was line with metal pipes in the soil running up to the surface (the casing). Depending on your system design either a pump is lowered down into the well through the casing and pipes come up from the pump with the water or pipes with a foot valve are lowered down through the casing into the standing water with a suction pump attached above that to raise the water.. At the well head the water is redirected below the frost level typical for your area in pipes through the ground into your house. From thence to a pressure tank and then out to your taps, etc. Somwhere in that system surface water carrying coliform bacteria from some critters' gut (large or small, human or non-human) entered the system contaminating it. It could have been a one-time event, but most likely the breach is still there, and even if more bacteria is not now coming, it could in the future. And any thing that increases soil water (on surface or just in the soil) carries the possibility that it will happen again. The other possibility here is that the breach is inside your house, and so unaffacted by high soil moisture. For instance perhaps you have a sewer drain and supply line too close together and a small leak has formed in both allowing an exchange of contents. Not likely, but it could happen. Or perhaps you have had a back flow of coliform carrying water through a tap connection - washing machine feed hose, an icemaker supply line or an outdoor hose bib is where this might have happened. Maybe a plumbing repair introduced it originally. That's why it's possible that a single, or even a series of shocks might eliminate it. But also why, if it continues to test positive, you may need to do more work to find and fix the problem. I wouldn't hesitate to shock it and then retest, upstream of your UV system, of course. The bad test is "on the record" now anyway, so you've nothing to lose. It's inconvenient to shock, and a little stinky as you will have to run the chlorinated water out. But maybe it will do the trick. Your county (or state) health department has dealt with this countless times before and can give you good advice on how to do it. They won't think you are Typhoid Mary out to infect the whole region. It's just a common well problem that needs to be addressed. Scads of people with private supply systems have been through this. Unless your water supply is located in an area with tons of animal manure run-off, chances are it will be no big deal to address. That's where your buyers went off the deep end. If you want to live in an area with private water and/or septic systems you have to expect this sort of thing from time to time. (The drowned squirrel that decayed in my well, was unusual, though. Definitely a worst case example!>) HTH L.