Kärcher Premium Oscillating Sprinkler - OS 5.320SV

Compact design, well engineered, I would recommend this oscillating sprinkler.

After 3 weeks of use, the sprinkler doesn't move anymore and gets stuck on one side. Very upsetting.

I’ve been debating whether to get a sprinkler for our garden for some time. We have got a reasonable sized couple of lawns, in total about 60m x 7m which are often in a pretty poor state due to moss and over hanging trees, along with a resident collection of squirrels, foxes and avians digging the place up. However, after conducting an extensive lawn repair I felt time was right to get a sprinkler to help keep the grass hydrated while the new seeds are growing. I looked at many sprinklers, and didn’t mind spending a bit of money to get the right one. The main choices tend to be by Hozelock, and they have a considerable choice on offer, however the reviews of them are always just average so I’d put off buying one. Then I happened to stumble across the Karcher sprinkler on Amazon, listed as £15 for Prime members reduced from a £39.99 RRP. The reviews were much better on average than any of the Hozelock products, and there were plenty of reviews to look at showing it was actually quite popular. I have to admit I didn’t even know Karcher did sprinklers…..and I own their pressure washers and window vacs so I’m no stranger to them.The sprinkler is impressively well built and is certainly a chunky product. It is also easily configurable to meet your garden’s needs, which I wasn’t expecting. There are banks of jets pointing in different directions laterally, each of which can be individually turned on or off. Likewise, there are slider controls allowing you to customise how much the sprinkler oscilates in either direction. This is great as you can effectively prevent an area from getting wet, such as on my front lawn where I could stop it from showering passing pedestrians from getting soaked. There is also a slider control to adjust the amount of water coming out, with the ability to turn it off completely. Finally, there is a “patent pending” piece of plastic that rotates around from the side which blanks off the half of the sprinkler closest to you, allowing you to adjust the direction and power of the jets on the other half without you getting a face full of water while you do so. All very well thought out. Naturally, it connects to Hozelock attachments, given they seem to be the industry standard.I was conscious of our relatively low water pressure (the sort where if two taps are turned on together you end up with a pathetic dribble) and what impact it would have on the performance of the sprinkler. It easily covers the 7m width of the garden and oscillates to a coverage of 8-9m. It means that on my particular lawn with my water pressure I need to move it a few times to give total coverage, but it’s so much easier than wandering over the whole lawn myself.It has impressive features, is very well built and does an excellent job despite the poor service provide for it. I think I’ve made the right purchase.

There's something inherently weedy sounding about the word 'sprinkler'. Do not be fooled. I was. This is a water distribution machine, no less.It's packed with features that you wonder why every sprinkler manufacturer hasn't designed into their lesser products. It has flow control right down to zero, so no more running backwards and forwards to the tap. You can individually select which nozzles spray, there's a really clever guard that stops the nearest half of the jets from jetting while you adjust it, and you just swivel the guard away when you're happy with the setting.Initially I thought the coverage was disappointing. That was until I realised I had a water pressure regulator in line from my tap. I removed it and consequently the MACHINE sprung into life. It watered not only my garden, but also my neighbour's garden (over a 10ft hedge) and the inside of my unsuspecting house (back door was open). This is my new favourite garden toy. The dog hates it.

Absalutly magnificent sprinkler, I have onwed a number of the Hazlock osilating prinklers and they have always been a pain to set up, I have had to put paired down match sticks into the jets to get the spred I needed and adjust the wall tap to get the right spred and they never lasted more than a couple of years.This sprinkler is amazing, it is totally adjustable in every way, full shut off of valve at sprinkler hose inlet, plus speed of flow by adjusting the valve, spred of spray by shutting off and opening valves for the jets, spry spred by adjusting the yellow oserlating adjusters, one can have full range one side to the other, half side to side, or all one side or the other and all this can be done by swing the sheld over the jets while you are doing the adjustments.This sprinkler is well worth the extra cost one pays in comparison to other modles on offer and as an engineer I would say this is well manufactured and well last meny years.Have no Idea what other customers where tlking about not getting the spred of cover claimed by the maker as I have had on problem and have just the standard mains water pressure of any other house hold. In my opinon those customers with flow problems have not turned the valve on the sprinkler on, or have a problem with the flow supplied by their wall tap or flow reducing valve which are now comonly fitted in modern properties to reduce the water used by the resident, normaly set at 3 Bars of presure which eqates to only 43.5 Psi.

This sprinkler is fantastic. That's all I can really say about it. Extremely easy to use out of the gate, and everything it says on the tin and the advertisement blurb works as intended - a rarity in this day and age for sure!Karcher has gotten a bit of a reputation for slowly "downscaling" their quality over time, some of their products you bought 10 years ago when bought again today have certain fittings replaced or altered which are less effective / durable than their ancient counterparts, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, thankfully.I haven't measured my garden, but I have a 40m hose that runs out of length about 90% down the garden, so my garden must be around 50m or so. This sprinkler gets it all when put in the middle and set to the maximum power and spread distance. It sprays all the way to the bottom hedgerow and all the way to the upper grow boxes on the patio. That's pretty amazing stuff, considering I live in a fairly low pressure area and I'm using it from the outside tap too. When I use the hose without a nozzle it's a big ol' fat spray of water, not a jet, that kind of level of pressure, you understand. This sprinkler is an excellent pressure multipler then.I wish I could calculate how much water this thing puts out per hour or whatever, but I'm not anywhere near smart enough to do that. I will say however that leaving this thing running for 30 minutes makes my entire garden look like the heavens opened recently and we got a light shower. Very nice indeed!The only complaint I can think of is how wide the spray is, it easily reaches over the neighbours garden on either side - but you can just turn off nozzles with an easy button press and that problem is instantly solved. The other only plausible issue is the fact the cleaning pin is really annoying to unlock and remove, but I imagine this is a safety feature so your children don't end up gouging each others brains out or something with it. Using a butter knife, a coin, your shed key, anything that's strong, sturdy and thin enough to slot into the gap and twist it to unlock it, it easily pops out. Really tricky by hand though.If you've got an interest in watering your poor, beaten, dry and brown lawn and maybe resuscitating it to a verdant and lush bounty, you'll want to buy this water sprinkler. It's absolutely fantastic.Don't forget the white clover!

I’ve had a cheap Quantum £12 sprinkler for a few years which does a good job but doesn’t cover the area I want (or anywhere near the range stated). I bought a Gardena sprinkler which did a slightly larger range but still fell a few metres short so I tried this one. When I unpacked it I was hopeful, looks far more robust than the others. However much to my disappointment, it is the worst of the 3 sprinklers i’ve had. Does the smallest range and had the weakest spray so I returned it. Bearing in mind it has a max. range of 320m2, I only want it to do 110m2, and it could only manage about 70m2. I have very good water pressure, but it was on the end of a 50m hose. Nonetheless the other 2 sprinklers outperformed it under the same conditions.