Simple Pump: Applications for your home.

So how is the water actually delivered? Our systems can be used in many ways.

Not Pressurized

The Simple Pump can, of course simply deliver water to the well head, or through a hose connection to another location around your property. You can deliver water to a bucket, hose nozzle or non-pressurized tank.

Pressurized: Into Your Home

As you may have read on another page, our hand pump and our motorized pump both generate more than enough pressure to pump into indoor plumbing. You would need just one one extra item, our "CV-1 Check valve with pressure gauge". This can be located on the line beside the Simple Pump, or other convenient location between the pump and the point of delivery. The one-way valve allows you to pump into pressure while preventing the pressure pushing back on the release half of each pumping cycle.

The connection to your home's pressurized plumbing system can be made in a variety of ways...

• Garden hose into pressure tank

Such a tank may be part of your household plumbing, or part of an irrigation system. Pressure tanks have a faucet near the bottom, normally used to drain the tank. Using our pressure guage/check value assembly to prevent pressure kickback, you can pump INTO that faucet to fill the tank.

• Garden hose into house

Connect a garden hose from the Simple Pump to a faucet that exits directly from your house. This works only if your house is 25 years or older. Houses built more recently do not have a gate valve that allows water to be introduced from the outside.

• Yard hydrant

A yard hydrant is an OUTLET from your household plumbing for outside use. But all yard hydrants are designed in such a way that water can also be pumped INTO the hydrant, thereby supplying water to your plumbing. Just connect a garden hose from the Simple Pump to the yard hydrant, and start pumping.

Most homes will have at least the pressure tank option. If you don’t have any of these three options, above, our recommendation would be to install a pressure tank. This is a simple and fairly quick job for your plumber. It’s a definite plus to have a pressurized water supply. Otherwise, you have to pump AS THE WATER IS BEING USED! Every time you turn on a tap or use the bathroom, you have to go out and pump at the same time! Obviously, that is not even possible if there is only you! Much better to have a tank (pressurized or gravity-feed) that is topped up, then used, then topped up, again.

• Pitless Adaptor

Most disruptive and costly, unless done while your well is being dug and installed. A line T's off INSIDE your well casing, and runs several feet underground, into your house. This is a job that would be done by a professional.

Other Pressurized System

You may have a pressurized irrigation system. Pumping into such as system is, of course, as easy as pumping into your pressurized house system, described above.

Pumping Uphill

Another form of pressure to pump "into" is pumping uphill. Again, all that is needed is the CV-1 Check valve.

Read more about pumping into a pressurized system.