Right,
I am asking as I have genuinely run out of brain power @ moment. Trying to look after 2 moody cats, 2 howling puppies, a wife and house build has totally discharged my neural network.
Water Pumps -
I need to bring water from the river to the 1st stage holding tank through a sand filter sediment tank. Distance approx 20 meters rising to 4 meters for the top of the first tank. - So what should I be looking for ?
1st to 2nd tank via 2nd filtering system, 2nd tank direct to another pump for distribution length of up to 100meters around the garden and house. ( everything on the ground floor, but might need it for on the 2nd floor sprinkler system )
I have been looking everywhere at pumps and all I am seeing is on average 8mts suction / 20 - 30 mts distribution. My bemused brain is telling me it does not equate there and as I am not a fluids engineer I am frankly a little out of comfort zone.
We already have a couple of mitsubishi 200watt (i think) constant pressure ones but after 20meters transmission I have seen a rabbit pee further, so not impressed at all with performance. Ideally something that is a basic automatic one, turn on tap it kicks in, float in tank drops, it kicks in, that it.
Any sage advice, ideas or wisedom would be greatly appreciated at this time......
(As, after carefully drawing up all the plans for the tank installation and explaining and having the wife translate, I came back home this afternoon to discover they had welded up the tank stands arse about tit, asking why, as it was graphically drawn with 1 tank on the top and 1 on the bottom, I was told oh .. we thought 2 on top and no problem water still go from bottom of tank 1 to top of tank 2 it work same same. The roaring lecture on basic pressure principles was utterly lost, but it was therapeutic for 10mins until the F in L chimed in with the word SILICONE ... that initiated meltdown mode and I stalked off before the silicone tube went somewhere else.)