Wet Vac with pump out

JohnB

JohnB

JohnB
Ok we have built a bunch of stuff , but now the ultimate project. We clean a floor inside the VA Hospitol and we have been sucking the water up with a wet vac with the pump out feature. It works good but every time we get ready to clean it again I have to buy another 115.00 dollar wet vac pump out vacuam from lowes. This gets pretty expensive.. My Idea is to find a vac head powerful enough to fit on my 65 gallon tank and put a rolling base on the bottom of the tank to roll it around .. the I was thinking about either mounting a submersible pump in the tank with a hos running out or maybe one of those pump out things that sears sales for wet vacs and mount it on the tank some how... I wonder what would happen if I put my wet vac head off of the 16 gallon tank on the 65 gallon tank ?? It probably wouldn't suck would it??
 
Tank size has nothing to do with how well the vacuum will perform. As long as there is a good seal like it would have on the stock tank then you will be fine.
On another note, what is the 65 gallon tank made of? Is it strong enough to not collapse under vacuum load?
 
Another picture of tank I am going to put my wetvac top on the top and a float activated sump pump on the inside ... think it will work .. I am going to use a 1/3 hp sump pump and run a hose out to a quick seal for pump out feature.. then put a ball valve for the big drain.. I am also going to put caster and a frame on the bottom to roll it around....
 

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Surface Cleaner Holding up

Same mosmatic ceramic swivel never been rebuilt works great.. Only thing is the barrel that I used for the top is rusting but I got a stainless steel idea for about 70.00 thanks for asking.. We used it the other day to clean the interior of a church kitchen.... And got to use it tommorrow night to clean some concrete in Hattiesburg.

I will get some pics....
 
If you are referring to that white rectangular tank, It will not work. It will need to be reinforced to prevent collapse.

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Hi John

One idear might be a Bane carpet cleaning machine or simelier.
It is an electric truckmounted carpet cleaning machine should run about
300 - 400 foot of vacume hose of it.
the thing about the bane machine is it can be wheeled about if needs be
you should be abile to pick one up for about $1000 or less
if you do a search on google you will see what i mean.
just type in bane carpet cleaning truckmount.
plus there is always a few of them on ebay.

Davy
 
Just wondering because that big water tank is twice as thick as my actual wet vac tank .. It's just a lot bigger ? Just for the sake that I have to buy another wet vac anyway for our VA Hospitol floor cleaning in March. So I am going to give it a shot I really dont think that little 5.25 hp ?? Wet vac vacuuam head will create that much suction .. Yall know me I just got to try it out.. Will see by the end of this week..
 
We have become the leading interior floor cleaning company in Jackson.. Everyone wants us to run the surface cleaner over thier interior floors.. I bought a shop vac with a pump out feature .. We set this up in the low spot of the kitchen or floor and suck the water up and it pumps it down the drain.. The only problem is that these 100.00 vacs are not reliable.. sometimes the pump out feature will not prime and pump so we have to stop and kink the garden hose on the pump out end to get it to prime.. We are trying to speed up the pump out of waste water from our floor cleaning so we don't have to stop every 10 minutes... What I was thinking is a tank with a sump pump in it ... and a wet vac head mounted on top.. I put my wet vac head on the tank this evening and could not get it to suck nothing , I had it sealed real tight.. I guess $100.00 vac for every 2 jobs isnt bad when I average $800 to $1200 per interior floor cleaning...
 
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Working Great but ugly as heck
 
We need the pump out feature.. Really just need a self priming pump with a suction hose and a discharge hose .. I put the wet vac head on a steel drum today and it worked pretty good .. I think what is eating our vacs up is caustic.. We spray the floor down with caustic and then use the surface cleaner .. The water that gets sucked up in the vac and pumped out is like really caustic.
 
Ok here is the idea .. buy a 20 gallon wet vac , buy a sump pump with a float valve type switch. drill a hole in the side of the wet vac and run the discharge hose off the sump pump and outside the wet vac , sealed with a quick seal and silicon.. Also do the same for the elec cord from the sump pump. Then plug them both in.. The water goes in the wet vac and when it gets to the level to lift the float valve on the sump pump it will pump the water out.. will this work ?? Just need to know befor I go buy another wet vac with pump out feature ?? I will try to get a drawing for you to look at .. but it seems like it woud work.
 

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Ok here we go all I have left to get is a barb fitting for the pipe in the tank , a section of hose , and 2 clamps and then we are rolling in the doe.. Oh and I thought just for kicks I would throw in a photo of the ever popular B&R office , Including the messy desk shot..... I will have video of my wet vac pump working really soon maybe even today.. I hope..
 

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Ok for some reason it want pump out the water while the wet vac is running only when I turn the wet vac off ... then it pumps out.. I am thinking 1) tanks to small or 2) I am getting some kind of vac lock in the pump ??? HELP I have got a 3/4 line from the pump to the outerside fitting
 
The suction from the vacuum is keeping it from pumping. Also, I have tried those types of vacuums before for water recovery. they just do not last. I have sometimes only a couple of hours out of one of them. If you want to get a vacuum that lasts you need to pay the freight.
 
Scott I think what I am going to try is to mount the wet vac head on my plastic tank , it is at least 60 gallons..I did this once before using a 55 gallon plastic drum and then just draining the water .. The sump pump will pump 30 gallons per minute .. So 2 minutes to empty the tank.. I was thinking maybe the volume of water in a 60 gallon tank will be different than the 16 gallon tank causing less pressure at the bottom .. and the pump may cut on ..Just a thought.
 
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