Three parts nothing else on this shelf has
A dirt screen. A continuous lock. Stated frost protection.
Those are the whole argument for this gun, and none of them is a pattern count.
The lock
A trigger you can latch open.
The two controls elsewhere on this shelf are a squeezed trigger, which has to be
held for as long as water flows, and a twist switch, which stays set and cannot
be released quickly.
This is the third arrangement and it is the best of them: a trigger for instant
control — let go and the water stops, which is what you want when the phone
rings or a child walks in front of it — and a latch for when you are watering
forty pots and do not want to hold anything.
A held trigger over an hour is a genuine physical complaint, and it is why
people water less thoroughly than they mean to.
The dirt screen
The part that decides whether the gun still has five working patterns in year
three.
Water arriving at a garden tap carries grit: sand from the main, scale, rust
from the tap body, and whatever was in the hose end when it was dropped on the
gravel.
A multi-pattern head is several small orifices. One grain lodges in one of
them, and that pattern is dead — usually the mist, because it has the smallest
holes.
A screen at the inlet catches it before it reaches the head. It is a mesh
washer, it costs almost nothing to include, and no other gun on this shelf
names one.
Two sprinklers on this site’s sprinkler shelf name a metal filter and a cleaning
needle for exactly the same reason. It is the same failure mode, and on this
shelf only one manufacturer has answered it.
Frost protection
Stated as integrated.
A spray gun holds water after the tap is turned off — in the head, behind the
valve, in the fitting. Left outside, that water freezes, expands, and cracks
whatever is around it. It is the commonest way a spray gun dies, and it happens
in November to a gun that was working perfectly in October.
What “frost protection” means mechanically is not spelled out in the listing.
What is worth saying is that it is the right problem to have engineered for, and
that the plastic guns on this shelf — two of which describe their ABS as
cold-resistant — are addressing the material going brittle rather than the
water inside expanding.
Draining a gun and bringing it in still beats relying on either.
Five patterns, and the shelf’s arithmetic
Five, from a gun that costs nearly four times the cheapest here.
Sorted by price, the pattern counts across this shelf run 8, 8, 3, 4, 10, 5
and 1.
There is no relationship at all, and this is the clearest illustration of it:
the two guns at the bottom of the shelf offer eight patterns each, and the
premium product offers five.
What that says is that the pattern count is the number a listing leads with when
it has nothing else, and that this manufacturer spent its money on a screen, a
latch and metal instead.
Three settings do the work on any gun: mist, shower, jet. Five well-executed
ones with firm detents are more useful than ten on a stiff bezel.
The connector and parts of the spray head.
The connector is the joint that gets tightened and loosened every time the
gun comes off a hose; plastic collars round off and then will not seal.
The head is where water leaves at speed with grit in it, and where a soft
material erodes until a jet becomes a fan.
Neither the exact alloy nor the nozzle material is named — one other gun on this
shelf specifies solid brass at the nozzle — and the placement is right.
What goes unpublished
No flow rate. No thread size. No weight. No dimensions.
That is universal across the guns on this shelf. Only the metal watering lance
here publishes any of it: 44 litres a minute at 4 bar, a 0.7 mm hole diameter,
over 260 holes, and a 35 cm spray width.
Availability
From 25 € to 37 €, that being the spread across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Beyond the euro zone, the American and British Amazon stores price it in their own currencies, which the spread above sets aside.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
