I am in need of one of those little submersible pumps that is suitable for pumping dirty water. It will not be used much so would be nice if it was reasonably priced. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Cheers,
Andrew
I am in need of one of those little submersible pumps that is suitable for pumping dirty water. It will not be used much so would be nice if it was reasonably priced. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Cheers,
Andrew
Like this?
Doesn't even say who makes it although I think the picture may say Silverline.
Andrew
Depends what you mean by 'dirty'.
By dirty I mean muddy water as found in the bottom of a trench (not dirty as in sewerage) so looks like any of those should do. Unfortunately I live in a comparatively Machine Mart free area (Cambridge) and they don't do online ordering although I think they do take phone orders which might be worth doing if any of those are particularly recommended.
Andrew
They have a store in Peterborough - not that far away, and they certaily do online ordering, I've used it before & just checked, delivery on the Hippo I clicked on was £4.50.
Thanks. Some of them say that they pump to within 3mm of the floor, but they do not explain that they need more than this to prime and start. You may have saved me wasting my money on something that would not work.
One consequence of the patio being flat is that water accumulates everywhere, so it was not particularly deep, an inch at most I suppose, but the water pools across the whole area, so perhaps that makes it look worse that it is.
Perhaps the best plan will be to dig it up and lay a new one with a slope and drainage. I was planning on doing that last summer but never got round to it.
As a quick fix, lift one slab and make a small sump deep enough to hold the pump in the space, then put a grill over the top. Something as simple as an old tupperware box embedded in sand and surrounded at the top by a cement/ sand mortar mix will do the job
It'll not cure the long term problem, but in recent weather, it'll only need half a day of no rain to install.
If the problem is lack of slope, then a broom and wellies will be more use than a pump. It's surprisingly easy to brush up a couple of inches of standing water, provided that you have some sort of land drain along one edge, If you don't, then dig that first.
Pumps are a pain unless they have a sump to work in. Your land drain might usefully be sized to be big enough to clear normal (sic) rain, but to also have a sump area big enough at one end to sit the pump in.
You can't hire pumps. If and when you need one, so does everyone else.
Broom.
Depends how often it happens really.
Yes, that's what I have used. I did also try the wet and dry vacuum but that had two disadvantages: it required frequent emptying and I had to stop every time it started to rain.
After I posted my OP, the news was full of reports of people who were much more flooded that we were, so yes, it is all relative, and there are people in much, much worse situations.
When it rains it does not normally form puddles. I guess it just drains away. Only when we have very heavy rain does it accumulate and that will eventually drain away after some hours.
There's a good 6" before it enters the house. We have a brick garage with no obvious dpm, so that is more of a concern. If the water is left standing, puddles do creep through the walls into the garage.
No, I don't. I will have to look into this. Thanks.
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