Hozelock 7612 0000 Waterbutt Pump

Given the year long hosepipe ban we have invested in a large water butt and this excellent pump.Very easy to set up (watch the hozelock video first) It actually works better than i thought it might giving a very good powerful jet of water using my standard 15 m hose.Highly recommended.

Hozelock quality but can take a few seconds for the low water level switch to kick in.

Over all tho it does work well with a good flow rate, mine is feeding 40 drip feeders at the moment.

I bought this to transfer water from one 250l water butt to another one the same size which was at the other end of our 54 foot long garden.A standard hose was used to connect the two. To start with we set this up with the hose coming out of the waterbutt with the pump in it descending to the ground and then within 3 metres raising up to 2 metres (we had it going through a shed window). The the hose then descended to ground level all the way up to the end of the garden where it gradually rises to the top of the receiving water butt. This produced a very tiny flow rate – useless. However when we removed it from the shed window and just had it trailing on the ground from the donor water butt all the way up the garden (and then gradually rising to the receiving butt) the flow was adequate, taking about 1 hour 20 minutes to fill the receiving water butt. The instructions say that you should only run the pump for 2 hours continually so this is ok, though I’m tempted to do the fill in 2 stages so as not to strain the pump.

Very very pleased with this barrel pump , comes with a really long lead with a plug already fitted , all I had to do was sort out a short length of hose and buy a couple of new connectors and lowered the unit down into one of my 4 water butts flicked the switch and wooosh away it went , impressive pressure at the spray head more than I need to water the garden , don’t forget to attach a short length of chain or rope to make it easier to remove the pump from the bottom of the barrel when finished , I put a bit of wood on the end of my chain just in case the chain ends up in the barrel then the wood floats , I have 4 barrels that I can now pump out and water the garden and save running up the water meter , there are no doubt many other uses for this versatile pump, 10/10

Superb piece of kit which does exactly what it says. I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of water pressure but it turned out to be fine, as good as our mains supply and perfectly adequate for watering through a decent run of hose. The only thing to watch out for is that the system is very sensitive to the position of the float, so you do need to get the knack of adjusting that- at first the pump kept cutting out. However with a bit of practice the problem soon goes away.

This product is really good. I have 5 100litre water butts so it’s a great way to reuse water.

Only downside is that you have to take it out & put it back in to make it work & the same again to stop it. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong?

I love this compact, powerful little gadget. I bought it to transfer all the rainwater in a water butt into a larger rainwater storage tank at the top of my hilly garden and it did so extremely quickly and efficiently – once I’d set it up properly. It’s a matter of reading the instruction booklet carefully and then doing things in the right order: securely connect your hose to your pump and point it at your water’s destination; set your pump’s float height; pop the pump in the water and THEN connect it to power and off you go. Any problems, just cut the power and try again. I expect I’ll be using it to water my garden as well as to move large amounts of water around this year. Highly recommended.