Recent content by Magnet

As you can see, I posted this topic in May 2010, so have now had 2 summer's use of my water butt pump. I ended up purchasing a Karcher SBP 3800 pump with a claimed better flow rate than the original proposed model. I've not tried it with a pressure washer, I simply wanted to water my garden...

I'm thinking of buying this pump to use with my expanding collection of 200l water butts. Has anyone had experience of using it? Is it up to the job of producing a decent flow rate of water through a hand-held spray lance, say 30 metres from the butt. There is a more pwerful version but its £30+...

Thanks for your response, Noseall. By substrate I think you refer to the existing felt which is "nobbly" (due to the grit in the felt) so not flat as with a sheet of board, but I think will be OK. I will use battens as well. A very good point about staggering the overlap which I shall take...

I've bought some 36Kg top-layer felt for my 5m x 3m shed/workshop (lowish angle apex running lengthways). The current felt is OK, just worn at each end, I guess where the birds use it as a take-off area! There are no leaks yet but I want to do the job before that happens. The current felt is...