How to Install a Submersible Pond Pump

Published: May 30, 2008
Updated: Nov 20, 2021
1 minute read
  1. Place your pump up off the bottom of the pond. If the pump sucks in pond debris, it can make it run slower and eventually shorten the pump's life. Place the pump on a cinder block or stack of rocks to keep it off the pond bottom.

  2. Attach a piece of flexible tubing to the output of the pump.

  3. A soothing pond waterfall.
  4. Clamp the hose firmly on the pump using the hose clamp.

  5. Attach the pump to the under part of a fountain or run it up and over a waterfall.

Tips

Clean your pond pump to ensure long pump life.

Warnings

Always use a GFCI electrical outlet. It will cut off electricity instantly if water touches the outlet.

JG

This writer has been at the writing craft for over 50 years from long before computers or even electric typewriters. Now retired from her day job she spends retirement hours writing for online sites.

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