The Medway Handyman wrote:
John Laird wrote:
I have a modest amount of standing water in the sub-floor of my humble
abode, which I would like to get rid of before I go crawling about,
endeavouring to find where it has got in. Having wasted lots of time
with Google, I've not really found any simple, inexpensive, pumps that
would do the job, so does anyone have any clever ideas ?

The water is maybe 1" deep at its worst, and as far as I can tell,
most submersible pumps will struggle to get down to half that before
cutting out. I found a "puddle-sucker" on one or two sites, which
will go down to a few mm, but at a price. (£100+)


Hire a wet vac with an internal sub pump like this;
http://www.hss.com/g/58231/Auto_Pump_Wet_Vacuum.html

Noted, thanks.

[It might be a bit of a struggle getting something that size into the
sub-floor void, mind you.]

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