V-Pump 060400 Multipurpose Submersible Water Pump, 10-1/2-Inch, Orange

i hap a lot of water near my garage and on my driveway. Quotes for 2-3 thousand for french drain, but i worried about damaging roots on trees next to drive. Bought the vpump and it worked really well. Disharbed water just past high point , no clogs, driven by water. really fast. highly recommend.

Just last night we lost power for nearly 5 hours...so sump pumps would not work. I used this gem to siphon the water out of my sump pit and then discharge to our city sewer (street)... Luckily I had the discharge hose already connected, so when the storm hit, all I had to do was connect our garden hose and put the pump in our sump pit. THIS PUMP saved our bacon last night. For the record, last July 2017 we lost half our home to flood damage, so I am keenly aware of the implications of having sumps not work! This is light grade plastic, not metal, so be careful in handling, but it honestly worked! This puppy paid for itself with just this one use!!! I have attached a short video from about 1am that shows it working...after it had already cleared 10" of water from the pit. As an FYI it will suck water down to about 2" from the bottom, due to the design of the pump...which is actually 2" more than my actual sump pump.

I had my doubts, but I'm pleasantly surprised. I tested my new purchase today, and I'm satisfied with its pumping capability given the price and design. It will move liquids and sediment with ease. I do have a few words of caution. The device was not designed primarily for use in the US. The primary language of the packaging is French, but it does have English also, so thatbis nothing more than a note. It comes with a detachable quick-connect fitting, but the roles are reversed for the typical setup. The detachable portion has the sleeve typically associated with the source end of the hose instead of the discharge end. Also the threading on the quick-connect doesn't match any American garden hoses. Thankfully, I already happened to have a quick-connect source end connector and a double female ended length of hose (both available at Home Depot). With these, the setup works pretty well. The discharge of the Venturi pump utilizes your choice of 1 1/2” or 1 1/4” pool vacuum hose. 4 stars due to odd but available connections required. I intended to upload pictures, but that feature isn't working for me.

I purchased this item as a power outage backup device. When I needed to use it because my pump died, imagine to my surprise that neither of the connections use a standard fitting found in USA ! What a P.O.S ! The picture implies that I could connect a garden hose. The unit has male threads that will not match with a male hose end or any NPT fitting. The connection appears to be 3/4" FNPT. I went to 3 plumbing stores looking for a 3/4 FNPT to GHT adapter. No one makes one. I couldn't even scab one together. Now the outfeed, grrrr. The outfeed is for a 1" soft tubing slip fitting that I just happened to have laying around - not ! Even cutting the end of my garden hose off won't fit the connection. It should have been designed for a garden hose fitting. Who doesn't have 1 or 2 garden hoses. Then I thought I could use PVC piping & add in a threaded fitting. Nope ! It's too small to fit a 1" female coupling with OD threads. It's too late to return it. I wish I could give it zero stars. I really want to put it in the middle of the street & slowly roll my truck over the top of it. The sound of the plastic crunching would provide immence personal satisfaction but alas, I don't want to clean up the mess afterwards. Maybe I'll just donate it to a thrift store so another person can waste a day trying to find fitting for it. BTW, did I mention that I think it's a POS design ? Save your money !

Received this today in preparation for summer to use to help empty inflatable backyard pools. I tested it immediately in a bucket of water using my garden hose and it emptied the bucket very quickly, leaving just one inch of water in the bottom of the bucket. Only drawbacks are there appears to be a hole on the rear side of the discharge barrel, which means I will likely request a replacement product, and also that I needed to use an object to align and weigh down the V-pump in the bucket for better suction (used the garden hose watering attachment).

Product arrived on Saturday morning. The pond was dirty and we had used pumps on it for 4 days with poor result. I told my wife I was going to try this Venturi pump. It was very easy to set up. The water hose went to the fitting on the side with the black connector. I saw the space with an open air gap wjhich would produce the suction. The other opening was for the outflow of water and I inserted a 1 inch in diamater flexable tubing. I turned on the water and saw a suction whirlpool develope in the pond at the gap space and watched as the water level in the pond dropped. The pond was empty in 10 minutes. No mess. We scooped out the sand and debre. We washed out the concret basin this monring and filled the pond. Job done. Time was less than 24 hours.

I bought this to drain my kiddie pool I use for my ducks. Ducks get water dirty so fast, but it's hard to drain the new "big" pool. It's 5ft by 15" round. I can't tip it over, and the drain hole in the pool just sucked to my ground and the water wouldn't drain. Not to mention with how often I have to drain it, my ground can't continue to handle that, so it needed to go elsewhere. So the first time I fought with it. Now I have this! I couldn't be happier for $30 ( including the drain hose I bought). It made no noise so it didn't bother my ducks, It doesn't use electricity so I don't have to pull out an extension cord. It drained much faster than it took to fill it AND I realized over 1/2 way through draining that I didn't clamp down the drain hose super tight so some was spraying out at the connection, and it still drained like crazy. I used the water to water my garden and some grass. I'm amazed! I think it's nice to have on hand anyways, and during a storm/ blackout if there is an area that need to be drained I can use this and not have to wait for power since I'm out in the country I won't get it quickly.

This device is a good value. My spa has no way to drain it, without some kind of device. I didn't want the added expense of an electric or gasoline motor to maintain. This seemed to be a less expensive alternative and it works great. The very last one half inch of water level I have to use a bucket due to the low water level, but other than that this device works perfectly and is very simple to hook up to a hose. All in all a great value. Looks durable enough to last a good long time.