funny you should mention it today was the innaugral test of the pump!
not going to lie it was f**king incredibly difficult and nearly killed me but i connected everything up; electrics, a steel suspension cable and a safety rope in case the steel cable has a failure, connected the pump up to 25m of 25mm MDPE water pipe, flipped the switch to on, heard the pump do a couple of bumps and then after about ten seconds water starteed gushing out of the end of the pipe! i've just dinged a reducing valve on the 25 mm end and throttled her down to 20mm pipe added 30 metres of that and she sings! much more powerful than a hosepipe.
and that's not all, i just ran a pond water test kit on the well water and it's PH neutral with zero phosphates/nitrites or ammonia. unlimited free water wahoo!! apart from the cost of the pump/pipe/vlves/in-line filters and other its and bobs that is. i think all in it's cost me round the 750 quid mark but i am WELL happy!
i done a thing! 💦
Posted By: Tombs on August 13th 2026 at 17:46:45
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- funny you should mention it today was the innaugral test of the pump! (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 13, 17:46:45
- 😮 (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 16:55:52
- Fire on Mousehold apparently :( (n/m) (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Aug 13, 16:48:33
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- Bloody hell - I'm 10 miles away! (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 16:50:42
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- Looked like it had died down from here and now the smoke is back. Bad. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 17:08:10
- Daughter lives close to there and messaged me to say (General Chat) - jamesward, Aug 13, 17:16:23
- Hmmm no. (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 17:21:34
- uh oh, that's bad (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Aug 13, 17:22:44
- just messaged my son who is a fireman sam to ask if he was on call up there (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 13, 17:55:07
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- just messaged my son who is a fireman sam to ask if he was on call up there (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 13, 17:55:07
- uh oh, that's bad (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Aug 13, 17:22:44
- Hmmm no. (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 17:21:34
- Daughter lives close to there and messaged me to say (General Chat) - jamesward, Aug 13, 17:16:23
- Looked like it had died down from here and now the smoke is back. Bad. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Aug 13, 17:08:10
- Here (General Chat) - jamesward, Aug 13, 16:57:07
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- Praying they get it under control quickly (General Chat) - BungysPie, Aug 13, 17:34:58
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