Water Wand Buying Guide for Container Gardens
Fixed or telescopic, shower head or pattern head. How to pick the wand that matches the customer's plants rather than the customer's hose.
Reach Is the Product
Customers buy a wand because bending over a raised bed or reaching up to a hanging basket with a hand gun is uncomfortable. Everything else is secondary. The fixed wands here are 90 cm and the telescopic models extend from 90 cm to 120 cm, and that 30 cm is the difference between reaching a first floor window box and not.
Shower Head or Pattern Head
A shower head produces one soft rain like pattern and does nothing else. For someone watering seedlings, containers and hanging baskets, that is exactly right and the simplicity is a feature. A nine pattern head adds jet, mist, cone and flat for customers who also rinse paths, pots and furniture.
Telescopic Tubes and Water Pressure
A telescopic wand has to hold its length under pressure. Test the lock at full mains pressure with the wand fully extended before approving a sample, because that is the condition the end customer will complain about, not the one on the counter in the showroom.
Merchandising a Long Product
Wands do not hang on a standard peg wall and they do not fit standard cartons. This range is packed on a tie on card with dedicated long cartons around 96 cm. Plan the fixture before you plan the range, because a wand display usually needs its own floor stand or a dedicated upper shelf.
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Questions About This Topic
Fixed or telescopic for a general garden range?
Carry both. Fixed 90 cm is the volume item and the telescopic 90 to 120 cm version is the trade up for customers with hanging baskets or raised beds.
Do wands fit the same connectors as guns?
Yes. They share the same inlet, so they clip onto the connectors in the hose fitting family.
Put This Into a Quotation
Send the models you are considering, the volume and the market. We will confirm the specification and the carton data before you price it.