Nice find Grant!  I might want to try that with my recoil  pump out and fill  hose .

Hopefully one of those ne flexible hoses won't burst while you're cleaning in a customers home

Could be Andy.  Maybe if the first machine I ever got was the SD I would have adapted to it and my thinking would be very different.  I was driving down the street yesterday and drove by a house with a TM out front with somebody trying to clean a carpet.  There was water all over the driveway from the TM and hoses everywhere.  Maybe a big awful mess is just something I gotta get used to for that way of doing it?

Mo, I don't think the a1 hose will ever have that problem.  It's actual fire hose and is rated to something like 800 psi even though I'll never use it above about 90. 

Firehouse...reminds me of that thread that Andy posted on Mikeys about his 72 inch hose 4 to the door.

I'll let you know Jeff.  Kinking is a potential problem with that one but we'll see. 

After you get your new hose and try it out let me know what it is and whether you like it. 

Thanks for chiming in.

As a  Steamin Demon distributor we were notified that SD does not make the high pressure model anymore.  They are reworking it and when the new model comes out it will apparently have its own high pressure pump.  We also use the SD, not much though as we do mostly OP and CRB cleaning, but I agree with Grant the hose covering that contains both the discharge, solutions and electric cord is kinda of a pain to pull around.  The plastic covering doesn't slide across the carpet very easily.  Interested to know how the other hoses work out.

The new hose definitely reduces the water flow, so if you want to keep the flow at 3-4 gpm than this hose will not work but if you don't need that much water flow you might want to give this hose a try.

The problems I had were since the hose was packaged in a small 100 ft. coil it wanted to kink up some, I think once it's used enough the small coils will get worked out. I think it also need to be cut in to 50 ft sections so it can be managed better.

The hose is 1/4" air hose rated at 300psi  it's a translucent blue I bought it at Home Depot for about $37 I can't remember the name of the company that makes the hose,( my wife threw away the packaging)
I've only used it once and the water pressure and heat wasn't that great so it need more testing to see if it will hold up to higher heat and pressure, hopefully it will be ok.

Ok so the A1 hose is a no-go for the demon.  As you suspected Jeff the flexibility leads to kinking!