My pump has been sticking from time to time and with a little hit with a stick have managed to get it going again.
In the last few months this problem has slowly been getting worse.
Today it got to the stage of me hitting it with a stick regularly. I lost my patience with it today and resorted to hitting it violently with a stick whist cursing and swearing. Then the hammer came out and I tried tapping it gently, that worked for a while but after a short time this had little effect so then came the last stage... boot it with steel toe caps on..........It well and truly died on me.
To make matters worse my unreeled hose froze as well despite not being able to use my hot water.......how very frustrating.
Anyway I bought 2 new pumps today.
Both are connected up so that if I ever have anymore pump problems it will take a matter of 5 seconds to swap the one connection over via hozelock connection.
I've learnt my lesson today as I couldn't bear to spend a day trying to do half a days work hence the last resort of steel toe cap boot to kill the pump...RIP I had it for 4 years so not too bad.
Morale of the story.......don't go smacking the hell out of your pump or it will die on you and when it starts sticking, it's a sign it's on it's way out