Can I get a 3/4" garden hose to this submersible pump?

[Irecruitfish]

I was unable to find a suitable faucet that would please the misses in the laundry room so I'll be pumping water from the bathtub and a tote to the tank.

I ordered another submersible pump but it won't be here for another couple of days but this one arrived today and online it said it had a 1" fitting but it could fit a 3/4" as well. Doesn't fit.

Would home Depot have an adapter?

 

[jjohnwm]

Both of those adaptors look the same size, and they both look like barbed fittings so they require you to cut off the hose end, force the hose over the end of the adaptor and then use a hose clamp to affix it.

Depending upon the thread on the pump, you should be able to find an adaptor or combination of adaptors at HD or elsewhere that will allow you to leave the hose end in place, and simply screw it to the pump. Ideally, you want to be able to attach or detach the hose easily from the pump by simply unscrewing, but without constantly using the cheap and fragile plastic threads on the pump head itself, i.e. leave the new adaptor (brass, PVC, whatever) on the pump all the time and simply screw the hose end onto that.

Will they carry it? I hate to say it but usually the only way to find out is to take the thing into HD and then stand in the plumbing aisle looking at all that assorted crap with a furrowed brow until you figure it out for yourself. When/if somebody asks you if they can help you...it's best if you know and accept that the answer is likely "no", but without actually saying that...

Plan on two trips; the first solution you dream up usually turns out to be wrong...

 

[Irecruitfish]

Both of those adaptors look the same size, and they both look like barbed fittings so they require you to cut off the hose end, force the hose over the end of the adaptor and then use a hose clamp to affix it.

Depending upon the thread on the pump, you should be able to find an adaptor or combination of adaptors at HD or elsewhere that will allow you to leave the hose end in place, and simply screw it to the pump. Ideally, you want to be able to attach or detach the hose easily from the pump by simply unscrewing, but without constantly using the cheap and fragile plastic threads on the pump head itself, i.e. leave the new adaptor (brass, PVC, whatever) on the pump all the time and simply screw the hose end onto that.

Will they carry it? I hate to say it but usually the only way to find out is to take the thing into HD and then stand in the plumbing aisle looking at all that assorted crap with a furrowed brow until you figure it out for yourself. When/if sbody asks you if they can help you...it's best if you know and accept that the answer is likely "no", but without actually saying that...

Plan on two trips; the first solution you dream up usually turns out to be wrong...

Sounds good I'll do that!

 

[Fishman Dave]

I’d have cut the hose end off and hose clamp fixed it by now. Going out to buy fittings is just not in my nature ( hence the polystyrene boxes full of odds and sods I have accumulated over the years. And all the make do and mend fixings I have, …………. Mmmmmm not to mention all the wet floors!)
The amount of water the pump will pump depends on the diameter of the hose, so unless your gonna buy a bigger diameter hose, to my simple head, cut the end off the small diameter hose and clamp it.
That said, if you don’t have a hose clamp and you have to go buy one - then you may as well look to find the right fitting !

On a side note, holy cow, 100w pump for 1600g/hr. I know it’s not on constantly but surely there are more economical versions. (Sorry, old UK Yorkshire man syndrome again)

 

[jjohnwm]

The problem with just cutting and clamping is that disconnecting the pump from the hose will likely require spinning the entire pump to unscrew the plastic nozzle from the plastic pump thread. You will likely do that every time you do a water change. Screwing and unscrewing plastic onto plastic repeatedly wears it quickly, much worse than metal on metal.

If you just decide to leave the pump and hose connected, you are carrying around the whole thing each time, and likely coiling and uncoiling the hose each time, and putting a lot of stress onto those plastic threaded parts. It's not so much a question of "if" you will eventually crack the plastic; it's more a question of "when"...

 

[tlindsey]

stand in the plumbing aisle looking at all that assorted crap with a furrowed brow until you figure it out for yourself.

Have done that a few times

 

[Irecruitfish]

I’d have cut the hose end off and hose clamp fixed it by now. Going out to buy fittings is just not in my nature ( hence the polystyrene boxes full of odds and sods I have accumulated over the years. And all the make do and mend fixings I have, …………. Mmmmmm not to mention all the wet floors!)
The amount of water the pump will pump depends on the diameter of the hose, so unless your gonna buy a bigger diameter hose, to my simple head, cut the end off the small diameter hose and clamp it.
That said, if you don’t have a hose clamp and you have to go buy one - then you may as well look to find the right fitting !

On a side note, holy cow, 100w pump for 1600g/hr. I know it’s not on constantly but surely there are more economical versions. (Sorry, old UK Yorkshire man syndrome again)

Unfortunately the water source is 75 ft away and to buy 1 in tubing would have been too costly so I was able to pick up a 75 ft 3/4 in hose for 35 bucks.

Sometimes these companies market that the pump is more powerful than it actually is I hope to try it tomorrow morning and we'll keep you posted as I did get some fittings.

The other day I used a 1/4 horsepower submersible pump to a 5/8 in hose and it was extremely slow unbearably slow.