I am completely finished with this company.  let me tell you why.  I bought two new 100' hoses from this manufacturer.  they both went the same way, developing a hissing leak between the brass female end (the end that attaches to the hose bib) and the brass compression fitting that attaches to the hose, in  less than a year.  I ALWAYS leave my hose nozzles open to prevent any bursting, and in any case, you would expect the rubber part of the hose to fail.  When the first one went, Gilmour was good to their warranty and offered to replace it, providing that I cut off both ends of the hose and send them back.  So in order to have a functional hose while I was waiting, I would need to buy not one, but two hose repair ends (male and female), as well as spending the time to buy them and make the repair, as well as the cost of sending them back.  OK, I did it for the first hose (about $12 out of my pocket, plus the time), and they sent me another.  A few months later, the second one developed exactly the same problem at exactly the same spot.  And yes, they will replace it, with the same conditions.  I'd rather be able to buy a hose and have it work.  The warranty doesn't help when I need to use a hose.  Never again with this company.