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Solar pump to boost my hosepipe

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  • 18-06-2019 4:05pm
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    amandstu
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    Is there such a thing? Something that I can connect somewhere along the hosepipe to get a bit of extra pressure?

    Looking on ebay I can't see anything

    I don't have good water pressure and watering the garden can be time consuming.


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    Alkers
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    amandstu wrote: »
    Is there such a thing? Something that I can connect somewhere along the hosepipe to get a bit of extra pressure?

    Looking on ebay I can't see anything

    I don't have good water pressure and watering the garden can be time consuming.

    Is this from a water but or a tap?


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    amandstu
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭amandstu


    I have a water tank that I run a hose from (quite a distance)

    If I run a hose from the house the pressure is a little better but not so much (and that water is metered whereas the former method is just collected rainwater in large quantities .

    It is quite high up but even so the pressure at the end of the hosepipe(s) is not brilliant.

    If I could speed up delivery I could do more with my time.


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    Alkers
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    It's not solar powered but might do what you're after, even if you need to use an extension lead
    https://www.aldi.ie/gardenline-water-butt-pump/p/011936259936600


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    amandstu
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭amandstu


    Alkers wrote: »
    It's not solar powered but might do what you're after, even if you need to use an extension lead
    https://www.aldi.ie/gardenline-water-butt-pump/p/011936259936600

    Thanks,yes I would have to get a butt and an extension lead.

    Maybe it would be as easy to put a pump in my existing tank and attach the hose to it there.It is quite a distance (I have 3 hoses joined together for the furthest parts of the garden)


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