A pump that clears a flooded trench, footing or excavation so the job can carry on. Six hundred litres a minute, which is a great deal more than a person with a bucket and a bad attitude.
Around here it earns its keep more often than people expect. Ground near the canal and the old marl holes holds water well below the surface, and the clay across the Cheshire Plain holds whatever falls on it, so a trench that was dry on Friday is frequently not on Monday.
Getting it to the job
Hand carried, so nothing about gate widths applies. It goes wherever you can walk.
What needs thinking about is the hoses and the route. Suction hose into the water, delivery hose to wherever the water is going, and both of them somewhere nobody is going to trip over them all day.
The numbers
Water Pump specification
Hire typeDry hire
Getting it thereCollect or delivered
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced and tested between every hire
Five metres of hose with the pump
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Somewhere legal and sensible for the water to go
A strainer on the suction end, and somewhere to sit it clear of the bottom
Boots, gloves and a route that is not a trip hazard
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the water pump goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
01/ 06
Flooded trenches
Drainage runs and service trenches that fill overnight, which on clay is most of them after rain.
02/ 06
Footings before a pour
Concrete into standing water is a problem you pay for later. Clear it first.
03/ 06
Ponds and water features
Emptying a pond to reline, repair or remove it.
04/ 06
Flooded cellars and voids
Clearing standing water out of a basement or an underfloor void after a leak or a wet spell.
05/ 06
Keeping an excavation working
Running it intermittently through the day to hold the water level down while you work.
06/ 06
After a burst or a leak
Getting standing water away from where it is doing damage while the repair gets sorted.
How it works
Hiring the water pump start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Water Pump, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Work out where the water goes first
Not onto the neighbour is garden, not into a foul drain, and not somewhere it runs straight back into the hole. Silty water into a watercourse can be an offence, so think about it before you start rather than after somebody complains.
02
Keep the suction off the bottom
Sitting the strainer in the silt blocks it in minutes. Stand it on a board or a brick so it draws water rather than sludge.
03
Prime it before you start
A centrifugal pump needs water in the casing to pull. Running it dry, even briefly, damages the seal.
04
It is a petrol engine
Outdoors only, and not in a cellar, a void or anywhere enclosed. If the water is inside, the pump stays outside and the hose goes in.
05
Mind what is in the water
Stones, rag and debris jam an impeller. Keep the strainer on, and if the water is full of solids tell us when you ring.
06
It does not fix the cause
A pump holds the level down while you work. If the ground keeps filling, the answer is usually drainage or sequencing the job differently, and we are happy to talk that through.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
Enough to clear an ordinary flooded trench quickly. It goes out with five metres of hose, so tell us how far the water has to travel when you ring and we will sort the rest.
Somewhere it will not run back, will not flood a neighbour and is not a foul drain. Silty water into a watercourse can land you in trouble, so it is worth a minute of thought first.
The hose goes in, the pump stays outside. It is a petrol engine, so it never runs in an enclosed space, and that includes a cellar with the door open.
It will handle ordinary site water with the strainer on. Heavy solids, rag and stone are a different question, so tell us what is actually in it when you book.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the water pump is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
