HI All,

I want to get my Dad one of these, but it seems that everywhere is out of
stock (except for the £200 jobbies)

Can a general purpose dirty water pump like this be used as a water butt
pump?

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...45257&id=86171

Cheers,
Chris

"Chris Styles" wrote in message
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HI All,

I want to get my Dad one of these, but it seems that everywhere is out of
stock (except for the £200 jobbies)

Can a general purpose dirty water pump like this be used as a water butt
pump?


http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...45257&id=86171

Perfect.
Suspend it inside the butt about 6" from the bottom and let the float fall
freely.

Mind you, I reckon the output might be a little powerful for watering the
roses ;-)

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140062252413

Chris Styles wrote:

Can a general purpose dirty water pump like this be used as a water butt
pump?

Yes, just hang it on a string so that it's a foot above the bottom and
the crud layer.

Don't leave it in there forever either. You can, but the lifetime on
these things is never quite what they claim for them. Certainly lift it
out for the Winter when you don't need the watering anyway.

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Chris Styles wrote:

Can a general purpose dirty water pump like this be used as a water butt
pump?

Yes, just hang it on a string so that it's a foot above the bottom and
the crud layer.

Don't leave it in there forever either. You can, but the lifetime on
these things is never quite what they claim for them. Certainly lift it
out for the Winter when you don't need the watering anyway.

That's when we want to use ours (bought for I think about £30 - 40 from Aldi
but I could be wrong). In the summer the butts water the garden, in winter
we want to use it for lavatory flushing.

That's the Next Project :-)

Mary

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:56:11 -0000 someone who may be "Mary Fisher"
wrote this:-

Certainly lift it
out for the Winter when you don't need the watering anyway.

That's when we want to use ours (bought for I think about £30 - 40 from Aldi
but I could be wrong). In the summer the butts water the garden, in winter
we want to use it for lavatory flushing.

That is the sort of situation where cheap things don't save money,
though they can be useful for proving a concept if one is unsure of
it.


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That's when we want to use ours (bought for I think about £30 - 40
from Aldi
but I could be wrong). In the summer the butts water the garden, in winter
we want to use it for lavatory flushing.

Drop into uk.rec.sheds and ask Andrew Marshall how he did his.

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:56:11 -0000 someone who may be "Mary Fisher"
wrote this:-

Certainly lift it
out for the Winter when you don't need the watering anyway.

That's when we want to use ours (bought for I think about £30 - 40 from
Aldi
but I could be wrong). In the summer the butts water the garden, in winter
we want to use it for lavatory flushing.

That is the sort of situation where cheap things don't save money,
though they can be useful for proving a concept if one is unsure of
it.

?

I don't understand that!

Mary

"Guy King" wrote in message
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The message
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

That's when we want to use ours (bought for I think about £30 - 40
from Aldi
but I could be wrong). In the summer the butts water the garden, in
winter
we want to use it for lavatory flushing.

Drop into uk.rec.sheds and ask Andrew Marshall how he did his.

We know how to do it, we just need time ... Spouse's recent radical
prostatectomy and convalescence took a chunk of it. Since he came out of
hospital he's been assigned gentler tasks, painting the sitting room,
decorating the smallest room, making a trolley etc. It's not the weather for
doing plumbing in the loft. It can wait until summer :-)

Mary

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:06:31 -0000 someone who may be "Mary Fisher"
wrote this:-

That is the sort of situation where cheap things don't save money,
though they can be useful for proving a concept if one is unsure of
it.

I don't understand that!

A cheap pump is unlikely to last that long in that situation. It may
be useful to prove that the concept works, but will then probably
need to be replaced with a more expensive pump.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:06:31 -0000 someone who may be "Mary Fisher"
wrote this:-

That is the sort of situation where cheap things don't save money,
though they can be useful for proving a concept if one is unsure of
it.

I don't understand that!

A cheap pump is unlikely to last that long in that situation. It may
be useful to prove that the concept works, but will then probably
need to be replaced with a more expensive pump.

Ah, I understand now.

It might see us out though!

Mary

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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Spouse's recent radical prostatectomy and convalescence took a chunk of it.

Mmm, meaty chunks!

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The message
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Spouse's recent radical prostatectomy and convalescence took a chunk of
it.

Mmm, meaty chunks!

Indeed. But no the sort you'd want to have in your body :-)

Mary

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