Ratings & Reviews for Yardsmith Metal Female hose mender

very poor design

the device is made of two components. The female fitting is design to allow it to rotate to scew onto the male end. The design fails to seal between the two parts and leaks terribly. After three tries it still is a terrible failure. There are lots of other better options. I recommend Lowe’s drop this item.

Junk, Don't leave on spigot !

Have to remove from spigot after each use and leave disconnected. I left this hooked up all summer in NJ "city water". This thing corroded and welded itself to spigot. Had to pay a plumber $90 to remove.

Build-in leak, times have changed (Read before buy

All Hose Menders will not work anymore with a ribbed hose. Most New hoses have an interior build-in small tiny rib which causes the hose I.D. to be out-of-round This is build-in obsolescence. The next time buy a Hose which doesn't have a rib so it can be repaired & won't leak, or use an exacto-knife and cut away the rib. Even the slightest bump will keep a hose from laying flat against the Mender. The Rib won't compress. Nothing wrong with the Mender - Most are great Menders, as most are, but ...

Worthless

Although the item looks stout at first glance, it is actually very poorly constructed. The screw head on the hose clamp is entirely too small for a regular flat-head screwdriver, forcing you to use a small-head screwdriver instead. This does not give you enough leverage to tighten the clamp adequately, causing it to slip off the hose as soon as water pressure is applied. I could not find a nut driver that would work with it either. Thankfully, I was able to salvage a replacement end from an olde...

Complete garbage

Product leaks, impossible to tighten enough. I purchased it thinking that all the negative reviews were exaggerated, or that others were not strong enough to tighten it enough. Nope. I eventually broke the collar trying to get it tight enough. The product at it's tightest leaked more water than the leak I was trying to fix.

There is no way this will fit a 3/4 in I.D. hose. As for the clamp will not work.What about quality control?

As many have said, this is junk. I had to supply my own clamp in order to get the clamp tight enough to hold water. The clamp supplied did not have enough threads to get it cinched. Why Lowe's would put this item on the shelves is a mystery. No more YardSmith for me and Home Depot is just up the road.

clamp is too soft

I tightened the clamp as much as I could to stop the water from leaking from the hose. The clamp stripped after being tightened too much. Water still leaked out with all of the torque. I then used a 3/4" PEX clamp ring too and water still leaked from the hose.

Looks like brass but is just plated aluminum.

I bought 2 so I'd have a spare. 1st one broke after about 3 months use. The 2nd one broke as soon as I put it on. Both broke off right where nipple meets the flange. Only .060" wall thickness doesn't take much to snap it off. For the money go for solid brass next time.

Poorly machined made of thinest possible aluminum

This fitting purchased 21 August, 2017. The body is made of extremely thin brass plated aluminum. I didn’t use the supplied hose clamp because it looks to be of a very poor quality. I used two stainless steel clamps to make sure the hose connection wouldn’t leak. The hose collar and nut are poorly machined and leak water around the collar. I will be returning this item as soon as possible.

Cheap junk! Too bad there is no zero star ratings.

I purchased 5 each of the male and female types. They cracked and leaked immediately. I'm going to get my money back and go to a real plumbing supplier.

LEAKED

This fitting leaked no matter how much I tightened it. I have messed up the outside of it trying to tighten it so now I can't return it. It leaks on the back side of the fitting where the barbed end fits into the threaded piece very bad. Do not buy!

Cheap Junk

The paper thin band stripped before it was even tight around the hose. Taking this back. I'll go tonanreal hardware store to get something that actually works.

3/4 Inch hose repair????? HA!!!

No, No, No,!!!!! If you have a 3/4 inch hose this is not the ticket. Why any manufacturer would sell a combo is beyond me. What happens is it doesn't work very well for either size. My suggestion??? Buy the proper part, which BTW you can't do here. Try the "A" word to find what you need. Sorry Lowes, not your fault, but have your buyer go back to the drawing board.

junk

I bought this hose fitting after buying another yardsmith product to fix the same problem but didn't work. This hose repair leaked in the same way the other one did. This female fitting leaks around the collar and the hose barb. I even tried replacing the rubber gasket inside the female collar. No help it still leaked. Yardsmith makes a very low quality products. I wouldn't buy from them again. I'm going to see if home depot has anything of better quality.

Poor design for high pressure use

I connected this to a high pressure irrigation hose. When initially installed, the flitting leaked slightly no matter how hard I tensioned the hose clamp. The next day I came out and the pressure had pushed the hose clamp right of the fitting and I had irrigation water flooding my back yard. I went with another design of fitting that is working great. Great clamp if you don't need a high pressure fitting.

didn't work

I put this on the end of a hose and no matter how much I tightened it it still leaked at the connection. In the end I stripped it trying to get it tight enough

Saved my leaky hose!!

I was getting ready to throw my hose away since it had a slit near the female female coupler end but decided to buy this hose repair clamp from Lowes. I cut off the part that was next to the end of the house and attached this repair clamp.. It worked perfectly and only took about five minutes. Now I have use of the hose again and 50 extra feet of hose!!!