How To Choose Your Small Indoor, Outdoor or Patio Water Feature Pump

Any pump for outdoor use must have 10 metres of cable for safety reasons in South Africa. The same pump for use indoors or in an aquarium can be supplied with a short 2-core cable. In this section the same fountain pump can be bought with short or long cable ... take care. Always be safety conscious where water and electricity is concerned

How to select the correct Focus Water Feature pump

By Water Feature we mean a self contained or re-circulating ornamental type water feature which tend to be on the smaller side and often used indoors or on patios. These pumps (in fact any small pump like these) are totally unsuitable for a pond environment). This kind of pump is normally in a small box and has a short length of cable. Even when this type of pump does have a longer cable making them suitable for outdoor use they are still not recommended for any real pond use.

A quick check other than the size of the box is the guarantee ... normally this is limited to 1 year (we increase this to 2 years in view of our long experience with these pumps)

The general selection rule is based upon the height the water must be pumped. This height is measured form the water surface (NOT bottom) where the pump is submersed up to the inlet at the top of the water feature. To get satisfactory flow then choose a pump that has a maximum head equal to about twice this value.

It is very difficult to give better general guidelines than this because there is a vast number of different features available.