Hand water pumps for kitchen?

[BeagleBuddy]

Would it be possible to have one if you live in the city? I don't know why I wouldn't be able to, just thinking like maybe the water would keep running even when you don't pump it or something. (I know, just as likely to happen with well water, but I'm asking anyway.)

If you can have one, would you be able to have a Pitcher Spout Pump? And does anyone know how to hook it up? Here's a picture of what I'm thinking of. http://i.pgcdn.com/pi/7/60/24/76024546_125.jpg

[SirDude]

There are faucets that are made to look like this, but connect just like a standard faucet would. I would check with Kohler.

My sister has something like this in her bathroom, but it's the old, dark metal look.

[rambler]

SirDude has a good idea.

The city supplies you pressurized water;

A pitcher pump has a rather open lifting system that will lift water up to 12 feet or so from a pool of water below it;

But it would not possibly control the pressurized water coming from the city pipes and as you suspect, would flow water all day long, 24/7.

And, if the city pipes (or your own electric well setup) stopped providing water, the pitcher pump would not be able to draw any water from those non-pressurized pipes. It needs a pool of water directly below it and less than 12-18 feet to operate.

--->Paul

[Cabin Fever]

You could use a pitcher pump as a "spout," but you'd have to plumb in a hot and cold water mixing valve along with it.

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

we have them in the city here , but not hooked up to the city water , our water table is about 15-17 feet down and people drive sand points in thier yards , usualy an electric pump is them added for watering the garden but the comuninty gareden has a simple pitcher pump on their point

in a pitcher pump you have a cilinder with a ruber seal that rides up and down , on the up the ruber washer flaps fite against a metal plate and seals to the cilender wall and as you pull up it creats vacume and lifts water up then on the down , because there is a 1 way valve placed below the pitcher pump the water can not go down the rubber flaper / seal flaps up and water rushes around it filling the cylinder above the seal then wen lifting up again the water above the seal is lifted to spout hight and flows out at the same time you filling the area below the seal with more water that will be lifted out on the next stroke.


if you hooked it to a city water pipe the preasure would push water out all the time so lets say you put a valve in below it and keep it off till the power and pumping station go down , then open the valve and try an pump you would maybe get a little but unlike th eground th epipes are sealed and you would only be able to get a little at most if you had you neighbor on top of the hill next to you cut his water meter out to allow air in you might be able to pump more of the water sitting in the pipes out , water meters are almost always one way valves they don't want your water back to contaminate the city

[ronbre]

most cities will not allow wells any more, you would need a well to use it or some other source of water besides city water

[rambler]

Originally Posted by ronbre

most cities will not allow wells any more, you would need a well to use it or some other source of water besides city water

It would need to be a very shallow well, those things don't lift very high.

Can work with a cistern.

--->Paul