Are Hose Reels Worth Installing for RV Fresh and Black Water Lines?

[John612]

Toying with the idea of installing small reels for my fresh & black water hoses, kinda like the big boys. Anybody try that?

 

[NB Canada]

They would still take up a lot of space imo

I just coil mine in buckets

 

[Hoopy Frood]

They would still take up a lot of space imo

I just coil mine in buckets

Yeah, I don't have that much free space to allow for installing reels. Easy enough to coil and stow.

 

[18CrewDually]

I think about it now and then but its just not worth the effort to me. Not when all I do is throw out my expandable hose and plug in the quick connect.

 

[SailingOn]

I coil the freshwater hose in with the Nautilus panel, space otherwise unused.
I threw out the black tank flush hose years ago, never used, haven’t missed it. Backflushing as we empty the gray tanks works fine.
The one retractable we had was mounted to the ceiling of the pass through for the power cord: a pain to use especially when cold, seemed like a stress on the cable, was a head banger and took up lots of room. Removed, discarded.

 

[Riverbug]

I love the Evo Flex 2 hoses, they are so incredibly light. Even with shoulder issues, I don't have a problem rolling those up and they take up so much less space. Years ago, I dreamt of installing hose reels but that was when those suckers were heavy and inflexible. Nowadays, not needed so much. Although the electrical cord even on my 30 amp hurts my shoulders. Maybe the doc will have a solution for that soon though.

 

[Hoopy Frood]

I love the Evo Flex 2 hoses, they are so incredibly light. Even with shoulder issues, I don't have a problem rolling those up and they take up so much less space. Years ago, I dreamt of installing hose reels but that was when those suckers were long and inflexible. Nowadays, not needed so much. Although the electrical cord even on my 30 amp hurts my shoulders. Maybe the doc will have a solution for that soon though.

I have a couple sets of those too. Even the 50 foot section isn't heavy.

 

[RV2600RB]

Fifth wheel came with one for the 50a cord from the factory. First thing I did after getting it home was remove the reel.

 

[Steve & Katey]

Pretty sure Brinkley puts these in at the factory, at least for fresh water. Might look through photos of their RV's to see what they are using.

 

[Sheldon]

When we had the hard wired power reel cord installed we now use the factory cord reel for our water hose. Solitude 370 DV didn,t lose any space from what the factory gave.

 

[Steve & Katey]

When we had the hard wired power reel cord installed we now use the factory cord reel for our water hose. Solitude 370 DV didn,t lose any space from what the factory gave.

I'm curious what the factory cord reel was in your Solitude? In our 2024 390RK the factory reel is the powered model.

 

[Sheldon]

Yes the factory cord reel is powered on ceiling of drivers side by wet bay but the 50 amp cord is not hard wired in, we hated having to move the cord all the time. We had our selling dealer install a hard wired 50 amp cord with a inline surge protector with remote display. We had them put it under the pantry and utilized the same spot to exit it where you used to have to connect the 50 amp cord. Now we have the original to power wind the water hose.

 

[Weebeenew]

We'll probably never use the one in ours. Unless we do decide to travel. Nice feature though.