[dankay]

Hi and please help if you can.
I have a 210 litre rainwater butt up on the second floor balcony and could drop hose directly from balcony and let water gravity fill up containers but it's a long way to then transport containers via sack truck through uncut grass and likely dogs mess from communal garden to the front of my flats. Instead of carrying down 25l containers, is there a pump to transfer water from water butt down a hose? If so, then I could just have hose drop down my flats stairwell and fill up containers and am close to my car parked outside front door. Any suggestions?  :

[spongebob]

You can still use gravity or siphonage to fill up with a hose down stairs. Assuming the water butt is sitting on the floor at carpet height and your flat is on one level its easy. If you have a tap then it will work or if not drop the hose into the barrel and roll it down the stairs and suck hard. once you get the water over the top of the barrel it will carry on. Either way would be improved further by sitting the tank up on blocks.
i may have missed something but would that work? Seems the same as over the balcony. You shouldn't need a pump.
Andy

[clearlyclean]

as long as the end of the hose is lower than the butt.gravity will take it through your flat down the stairwell and into the container.if it dont work you can get a water butt pump in wickes

[rg1]

Gravity feed with a tap on the end of the hose will work

[mark dew]

It depends on how much you value your time.
Gravity will do it but why bother when you can buy a pump like this for £20
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9956448&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=10&fh_sort_order=1&fh_sort_by=_price_rrp_min&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=pump&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=search&ts=1288047198016&isSearch=true
and fill your barrels in a fraction of the time.

The 1 1/4 inch hose will transfer much quicker with a nozzle on the end.
http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Submersible_pumps.html

Will do the job in much less time than gravity.

[dankay]

thanks for the replies! I reckon the water pump mark dew recommends from b&q should be just right to speed up the transferring of water since the hose will first be laying flat on the floor for the whole length of a big room before gravity can kick in properly and time is precious! I'll try and let you's know!
Thanks lots! 

[dankay]

hi again,
got myslf the water butt pump from B&Q for £20 (http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9956448&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=10&fh_sort_order=1&fh_sort_by=_price_rrp_min&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=pump&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=search&ts=1288047198016&isSearch=true).
I've still got 20 metres of spare garden hose left and might aswell use it with this pump if an adapter for a garden hose is available? I don't seem to find any hose fitting on the net?! On the pump it says "hose fitting 25mm, 32mm".
Any ideas? Has anyone had similar problem?

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

shud fit 1/2" standard fitting aint they 

[mark dew]

hi again,
got myslf the water butt pump from B&Q for £20 (http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9956448&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=10&fh_sort_order=1&fh_sort_by=_price_rrp_min&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=pump&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=search&ts=1288047198016&isSearch=true).
I've still got 20 metres of spare garden hose left and might aswell use it with this pump if an adapter for a garden hose is available? I don't seem to find any hose fitting on the net?! On the pump it says "hose fitting 25mm, 32mm".
Any ideas? Has anyone had similar problem?

yes and i bought the big hose from gardiners. In the link before. I've never tried garden hose, but it gushes out the big stuff. You will need an on/off valveif you get the big hose to fill barrels with. Cos it comes out so quick that the last few litres just rebounds out the barrel.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

jus suck n syphon