Warning sprinkler hose lidl super market

screwed_off

WARNING SPRINKLER HOSE
I purchased a recylced rubber sprinkler hose that dripped water around the plants,
From lidl in aprill and connected it to a garden tap to Irrigate, whist i was away on holiday, for two weeks,
The hose was faulty and split in seven places, running me up a LARGE water bill for £407 pounds,(on water meter supply
LIDL supper markets are refusing to pay any compenstion,
a part from a refund of the price of the hose!
would like to take them to court to get my cost back, but advised very difficult to prove in court

MORAL OF STORY DO NOT TRUST THE QUALITY OF THE HOSE TO WITH STAND WATER PRESSURE,
DO NOT BUY FROM LIDL SUPER MARKETS !

USM

Or maybe just don't leave a mains water appliance unattended for 2 weeks regardless of where it came from?

MamaMoo_2

I'm not an expert, but I thought hoses only distributed water at the rate it comes out of the tap. One would therefore assume that you left the tap pumping water out at a certain speed, so the amount of water used is your fault. If the hose split, it's possibly due to too much pressure from the tap being on too high?

Azari

screwed_off wrote: »

WARNING SPRINKLER HOSE
I purchased a recylced rubber sprinkler hose that dripped water around the plants,
From lidl in aprill and connected it to a garden tap to Irrigate, whist i was away on holiday, for two weeks,
The hose was faulty and split in seven places, running me up a LARGE water bill for £407 pounds,(on water meter supply
LIDL supper markets are refusing to pay any compenstion,
a part from a refund of the price of the hose!
would like to take them to court to get my cost back, but advised very difficult to prove in court

MORAL OF STORY DO NOT TRUST THE QUALITY OF THE HOSE TO WITH STAND WATER PRESSURE,
DO NOT BUY FROM LIDL SUPER MARKETS !

Sorry to see that you immediately get the usual f-wit comment straight after your post.

For the information of USM and any other half wits who want to make a stupid assumptions, a tap is 'a mains water appliance' as is a washing machine, and a combi-boiler.

Before commenting on your problem, OP, what, exactly, was the hose sold for?

If it was sold for use as an unattended automatic watering system then you may have a case for consequential loss as it may not have been fit for purpose.

Of course this assumes that it has not been damaged by being left in direct sunlight for days on end.

fluffnutter

As far as I can tell they're meant to be used with water butts (whilst on holiday) not the mains water supply.

Azari

fluffnutter wrote: »

As far as I can tell they're meant to be used with water butts (whilst on holiday) not the mains water supply.

OK, in that case, OP hasn't a leg to stand on.

fluffnutter

Azari wrote: »

OK, in that case, OP hasn't a leg to stand on.

I've been googling but not found anything conclusive stating that they shouldn't be left attached to a running tap unattended. I suspect, however, that that's exactly what the instructions will say.

MamaMoo_2

Azari wrote: »

Sorry to see that you immediately get the usual f-wit comment straight after your post.

For the information of USM and any other half wits who want to make a stupid assumptions, a tap is 'a mains water appliance' as is a washing machine, and a combi-boiler.

Before commenting on your problem, OP, what, exactly, was the hose sold for?

If it was sold for use as an unattended automatic watering system then you may have a case for consequential loss as it may not have been fit for purpose.

Of course this assumes that it has not been damaged by being left in direct sunlight for days on end.

If you look at the Lidl website, it's just a hose that screws onto a tap, and is therefore reliant on the water flow being set by the user via a tap, the hose has no control over the tap, no timer etc.
Unlike a combo boiler or a washing machine, the hose doesn't dictate how much water should be flowing through it etc, and so any malfunction in the hose would have no effect on the volume of water leaving the tap. Assuming it was the OP who turned the tap on and set the speed at which the water was running, then there's no way the hose can really be blamed.

Azari

MamaMoo wrote: »

If you look at the Lidl website, it's just a hose that screws onto a tap, and is therefore reliant on the water flow being set by the user via a tap, the hose has no control over the tap, no timer etc.
Unlike a combo boiler or a washing machine, the hose doesn't dictate how much water should be flowing through it etc, and so any malfunction in the hose would have no effect on the volume of water leaving the tap. Assuming it was the OP who turned the tap on and set the speed at which the water was running, then there's no way the hose can really be blamed.

Sorry, MM but your hydrodynamics seem to be a little rusty.

A hose with a closed end and a series of small holes most certainly will moderate the amount of water coming from the tap.

And if the hose splits it will allow far more water to flow than if it is intact.

What this really boils down to is two things:

1) Was the hose sold with any warning that it was for short, monitored use only?

2) Was it cared for properly or had it been kept in conditions that would have caused it to fail prematurely?

If it was simply sold as an unattended watering device and had been properly looked after then the OP has a good case against the company who sold it to him.

texranger

well regardless if the sprinkler worked or not the same amount of water would have gone through the meter, so the water bill would of been exactly the same

Azari

texranger wrote: »

well regardless if the sprinkler worked or not the same amount of water would have gone through the meter, so the water bill would of been exactly the same

Utter rubbish.

Someone else who clearly knows sod all about hydrodynamics.