Bosch Cordless Submersible Water Pump GardenPump 18V-2000 Extension Kit (with Wall and Tank attachments and 2.5 m Garden Hose, in Carton Packaging)

I have some large water buts with relatively small holes at the top and was looking for a mains transfer pump when I saw this. It works perfectly. As it needs to move about I have ignored the installation instructions to cut the supplied pipe down to make it a perfect fit. Be aware that there is an anti-syphon valve that closes when the pump is running but it is possible to it to start syphoning through the the valve when it is not closed under pressure and below the water level outside the water butt. Not a bid deal but disconcerting the first time it happens. Easy solution, make sure the valve is always above the water level. The common battery is good, I have not discharged it yet during operation. The timer is useful. The first time you use it you can mentally note how much the water level drops in 10 minutes and you can leave it unattended when using as a transfer pump. The water pressure is very good and easily operates a spray attachment on the end of a long hose. One slight criticism. You are told in the comprehensive instructions (it is Bosch!) not to let the pump reach the bottom of the tank to prevent is pumping sludge. Therefore, why not incorporate some extendable feet to completely prevent it that could easily have been incorporated in the removable filter cap. If I have a 3D printed I would make one. But overall a very nice product and easy to use. Would definitely recommend.

Had my doubts about such a product before purchasing, but I have to say it exceeds my expectations. Very well engineered (as you would expect from Bosch) and performs very well. I use it to pump water from a water butt to my polytunnel through 50 metres of hose, which it does with no problem and delivers a very good flow rate. You have to buy a battery seperately and my only regret is only buying a 2Ah one rather than a 4Ah as it does run down fairly quickly. However overall I firmly recommend it.

Reduced to a decent price, perfect for my portable 25 litre "rain water caddy" Nice steady output of water. Very powerful and quiet when switched on.

This pump works well, I'm using it to pump rainwater from butts to the other side of the garden, around 50 metres. Saves a lot of bucket carrying! Good pressure, enough to use the spray attachment even at 50 metres. With a separate battery housing, cables and hoses to set up,it's a little fiddly but that makes it versatile, so easy to forgive. Came with a 2.5 Amp hour battery, which seemed to run down quite quickly, just enough power to empty one butt 3-4 times, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention. Simple on/off and timed run buttons on the battery housing. Just connect a hose, drop it into the butt, and run the hose through the supplied plastic hook. Copes with very sludgy water at the bottom of the butts!

Very pleasantly surprised by this product it worked straight from the box so simple to put together didn’t need a charge just plug and play, I had been using my normal expanding hose prior to arrival so I set this up in my water butt and attached my hose which extends to 100 feet under pressure and found very little difference in the mains pressure and the pump pressure there was a slight drop in the pumps pressure but very minimal it pulled the water from the butt and pushed it 100 feet to my adjustable hose nozzle and sprayed my garden just as good as the mains water. Still reaching a good distance, only downside was it certainly empties a 100 litre butt very fast could not believe how much water disappeared from the butt and only used it for a couple of minutes as a trial test certainly need more rain to fill my 4 butts if it empties them that quick I cannot fault this product bought as used but it looked brand new in box from Amazon works perfectly at a exceptionally good price I was expecting a good quality product being a Bosch and wasn’t disappointed it’s a brilliant product does exactly what it says it does and comes complete as per pictures you only need a hose with normal fittings and a water source eg butts or pond rivers etc excellent buy

Excellent way to pump water from your rain water butt to water your garden plants during the current dry conditions.

Surprisingly quite powerfull water pressure for 18v

the pump works great - the anti-syphon pipe is useless. When you turn it on the rubber cap is blown off by the pressure and the little ball inside (if there ever was one!) disappears rendering the pipe unusable, water is pumped out of the hole left. Bosch is difficult to contact and, if you do, make sure you have the long model number starting with a '36' They only make one pump yet they are unable to identify it without its number! So - when you start it at first put your finger over the hole or do what I have had to do and use a different pipe making sure you dont leave it on the ground as all the water will syphon out of your butt!!