[billozz]

thinking of using a submersible pump to transfer water from a 1000ltr ibc to a tank on the van, does anyone know if one of them will fit through the hole in the top of an ibc.
i assume thats the only way to do it. also anyone know what size hose fits onto the pump
thanks
bill

[jeff1]

Hi Bill
I bought my pump from Toolstation for less than £30 its still going strong today after 20 months, I had to cut the opening to get it inside but once its in there you dont have to take it out again.

I bought the 1.5'' size hose, go for the heavy duty one (Yellow) the blue cheaper one doesn't last that long.

[M & C Window Cleaning]

I have an upright 400ltr tank for storage and I had to fit the outlet pipe fitting to the pump inside the tank as I couldn't get the pump through the opening with it attatched. It was quite tricky but could be done. I don't know if it's possible with an IBC.

Just a suggestion.

[Allways Cleaning]

on reccomendation i bought said pump from toolstation. have lay flat 400l but upright in garage. and forgot to get hose, will take 23mm to 32mm. not too expensive though. but could not get pump through hole and had to assemble inside tank. no major probs works well.

[L.J.Thorpe]

thinking of using a submersible pump to transfer water from a 1000ltr ibc to a tank on the van, does anyone know if one of them will fit through the hole in the top of an ibc.
i assume thats the only way to do it. also anyone know what size hose fits onto the pump
thanks
bill

i have an ibc in van and an ibc in shed
the 650 in van will not take the sub pump
the 1000 in shed will
different size openings on ibc,s
easy to cut a hole in  a static tank with a jigsaw tho
just enlarge existing one

[geefree]

you guys are sooo  busy with diy .... its admirable    aint there just a lot to do and think of in this game?

keeps us busy eh.

[LWC]

www.toolstation.com/messages.html?code=89645&mainWin=1

there you go, and mine fitted straight through the whole mate, no need to cut

[paulscotney]

I saw one in Lidl on Saturday. It was about £25 from memory. It said it could  pump 13000L an hour I think. Seemed a high pump rate for the price. Didn't take a note as I don't need one.

[billozz]

i would like to confirm that the one we bought would not go through the hole, so we had to cut another, but then you have the problem of sealing it up again, then you have another hole to deal with.....the one for the hose from pump to new tank.....but aftre all that we did it
thanks for all the advise guys but i dont think we would do it this way again too much hassle
bill