Best Water Pumps for Home - Water pump buying guide

Best Water Pumps for Home

If you are planning to buy the best water pump for the home than you are in right place. Before you make a mind to purchase a water pump, there are some important considerations that you should take care. Before you buy a water pump, let's talk about some important points that you must take care:

• Your requirements
• Horsepower (H.P.) of motor
• Self-priming or non-priming pumps?
• Quality of motor binding and its material
• Branded vs local motor?
• Why avoid Local motor pumps?
• Whether a big head or small head pumps?
• Which brand/company of motor to buy?

Your requirements

You must be clear about your requirements. You must know for which purpose you are going to use the water motor pump. Following may be your requirements:

• You wanted to pull the water from government supply.
• You wanted to push the water from a tank on the ground floor to upper floors.
• You wanted to pull the water from supply and push it to the upper floors.

Taking these 3 requirements into consideration, we will decide how much horsepower HP motor you should buy.

Horsepower (H.P.) of Water Motor

Horsepower is scale to measure the power of the pump to which extent it can be used. Basically, 1 HP is equal to the power of 1 horse. To decide the horsepower for your requirement, here are some considerations:

• 0.5 HP: To pull water from the supply.
• 0.25 HP: To push water from ground floor to 1st or 2nd floor.
• 0.5 HP: To push water from ground floor to 3rd or upper floors.
• 1 HP: To pull water from supply and push to the upper floors.

I suggest you buy 1 Horse Power HP because it can be used for various household purposes.

Self-priming or non-priming pumps?

What is priming? Priming is making the pump full of liquid. If you started a pump with air inside then it will just spin and do nothing except getting hot and possibly damage itself. So to get a pump to work you need to fill it with liquid, which is called priming.

Self-priming pumps either have an ability to pump gas enough to suck the liquid. Non-priming pumps, if they are empty of liquid, will just sit there and spin without moving any liquid.

So, you should always buy self-priming pumps.

Quality of motor binding and its material

After deciding the power (HP) of your motor, you must consider the quality of motor and its material. Here are some points for the quality of the best water pumps:

• Copper binding
• The copper binding should be of thin wire
• The shaft should be of steel
• Bush should be of copper

Branded vs Local motor

You should never buy a local product. Local motors are cheap but their durability is low and electric consumption is high. You must buy branded products. It may hurt your pocket but it is a one-time investment. Here are some important points why not to buy local motors.

• Makes noise
• High electricity consumption
• Aluminum binding
• Difficult to repair
• Parts are not available easily
• Low durability
• Bad material quality

Which brand/company to buy

These are the following brand/company which you should buy without any hesitation:

• Crompton Greaves Mini Sapphire (1 H.P Water Pump)

• Kirloskar Chhotu Star Monoblock Pump (1 HP)

• Usha 1 Hp Sp Mini Mono Block 2555 Water Pump

• Crompton Greaves Mini Master  (0.5 H.P Water Pump)

• Kirloskar 0.5 Hp Jalraaj Self Priming Water Pump