Questions tagged [sump-pump]
A sump pump is typically used in a temporary holding well (often in a basement) to remove the water when the holding well is full.
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Backup sump pump AND primary pump backup battery?
I recently bought a house where the previous owners had the whole basement flood because the power went out and they had no backup sump pump.
Prior to selling, they tore up all the floors and put in a ...
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Sump Pump Venting After Sealing for Radon
Apologies if this has been asked here before, my first time on the site coming from Reddit.
I just built a new house and know that the radon levels are high due to neighbors doing testing / the area ...
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Neighbor’s gutters empty into my sump pump discharge [closed]
I’m in CT in the US.
My sump pump discharges into my front lawn near the sidewalk. My gutters also feed into this, and I found out recently that my neighbor’s gutters do as well. My neighbor told me ...
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Is a platform over a sump pump hole a solution to accessing electrical service?
I'm working in a 250-year-old house and the basement has a sump pump that is located right below the electrical service panel.
To install the sump pump, they just cut a hole in the concrete slab and ...
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French Drain No Sump Pump
My house is ranch style with no basement. The garage and a small adjoining room are ground level with the other rooms built above them. The house was built in 1970 and I have owned it for six years.
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Basement Flooding / Sump Pump
Basement flooded over the weekend. The same type of flooding has occurred 3 times in the last 6 years. The sump pump was replaced during the first occurrence. However the problem continues to occur. I ...
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How to seal off sewer gasses on a 3" horizontal sewer pipe coming into a sump pit?
I have a drain in the front vestibule that I've turned into a sump pit since I have stormwater backup that I need pumped out of it when the backyard floods and overflows into the front drain through ...
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Okay for electrical receptacle and sump pump discharge to be near each other?
We're having an additional sump and pump installed and its discharge has limited options. One of the best discharge options (shortest run to a reasonable place to leave the basement) is already an ...
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Draining a washer straight into the sump discharge line?
My house was built in the 1980s and when I was in my crawl space, having to replace the leaky check valve ( vertical orientation, right above the sump pit, then the drainage line turns horizontal ...
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Can a completely evaporated deep cycle battery be brought back to charge?
The battery fluid on my sump pump Marine Deep Cycle Battery dried up to be completely gone.
I've replaced it with distilled water. Will the trickle charger bring it back to life, or am I in the market ...
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Is a filled in sump pump pit a problem?
Filled in sump pump pit an issue? Considering buying new home. Sump pit was filled in at some point with no record of who/why (home is from 2001). Unsure if pit is filled with concrete or other ...
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Water draining below sump pump drain pipe?
I live in 6 year old home and I noticed today after rain, that the sewer backflow preventer located in basement floor is full of water!
Basement floor slab is Bone dry but potentially there is water ...
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Pro Series 2400 Sump Pump Alarm System
I am working on my brothers sump pump issues and I have hit a wall. I have replaced the primary pump (new), I have replaced the battery (new) and I have checked to ensure that the secondary (back-up) ...
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Basement Bathroom water ejector/sump pump running sporadically and bolts stripped
Our basement bathroom has a water ejector/sump pump, as seen here : Basement sump setup
I've heard it running every hour today and last night, yet no one has used it. We had a heavy rain on Monday but ...
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How did a salamander get in my sump pit?
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I've lived in my house about 4 years and had a lot of issues with water after heavy rains. The house has some sort of tiling system bringing water to the sump, which keeps the rest of ...
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HVAC ducts with water under basement floor
My wife and I are under contract to purchase a home built in 1999.
During the inspection last week, we noticed this odd hole in the basement floor, next to the water heater. It was partially covered ...
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Inverse float valve for water-powered sump pump
I have a municipal water-powered sump pump that acts as a backup in the case of a power outage. However, the valve (a black plastic arm extending from the water line that holds a string with a float, ...
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For how long is it okay for sump pump to stay broken?
There is a sump pump in the subfloor area of a basement. The sump pump has stayed broken for several months. After inspecting the sump pump recently we found that there is no water. Which is somewhat ...
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How to fix gutter downspout leaking at Tee?
I have an underground storm drainage pipe that is connected to both my downspout and sump pump drain. The underground drain pipe, the downspout and the sump pump pipe all tie together with a 3" ...
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Can I set up sprinklers with my Sump Pump?
I have a MEDAS 1/2HP 1850 GPH submersible pump. I want to use it to water my garden.
Sprinklers sounds good but I worry if I'll have enough water pressure. I was able to connect the pump to a garden ...
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Inline pump? Split sump? How to separate two water streams in a sump?
I have a 6' deep sump with two pipes coming in. The sump is 3' x 3' at the top and rectangular.
A 1.5" pipe has oil contaminated water occasionally.
A 4" pipe drains a parking lot, and just ...
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How can I open the lid of my sump pit?
I have two sump pumps in my basement. Please see the pictures. I guess pump-1 is the primary pump, located in the big room with AC/furnace/boiler, and pump-2 is the secondary pump located in a small ...
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Outdoor sump pump discharge distance
I have an area in my backyard that after a hard rain will have 3-5 inches of standing water. Unfortunately it is in a drainage easement that is blocked further upstream so it backs up on my property. ...
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Do I need another sump pump for an addition with a basement? [closed]
We are doing an addition in a 50yr old house in New England, in an existing house with basement and sump pump. The new addition includes a new basement adjacent to the existing one towards the lower ...
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Flo-well dry well pipe size
This weekend I’m going to install a flo-well dry well from my basement sump outside into my yard… question is I know the flo wants 4” pipe into it but is it best to run a full 4” the whole way or ...
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outdoor sump electrical
I have a sump pit at the bottom of some outdoor basement steps that I need to get an outlet run to.
I'm going to put the dedicated receptacle on the outside cement wall ... so drill through the ...
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Do I need to install a pump? [closed]
I have lived in my home 20 years on high elevation with a very steep driveway. This house is about 25 years old. I have a below ground concrete floor basement. There is a sump pit but no pump. There ...
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For my sump pump system, am I correctly calculating Total Dynamic Head? Have to replace both my pump & discharge line
I'm calculating TDH (Total Dynamic Head) for the purpose of replacing my sump pump. I also need to replace the discharge line (pvc + check valve), however, the structure is forcing me to a very ...
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Deep cycle marine battery for Zoeller sump pump - how often to replace?
I have a Zoeller sump pump with a deep cycle battery. How long do these deep cycle marine batteries last and need to be replaced?
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Can I increase the efficiency of an exterior sump system by installing a check valve?
My house only has an exterior sump system for a walkout basement in the central midwest. The sump seems to run through a cycle, pumping the water through the drain pipe (about 6" below the ...
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Seasonally High Water Table
We have a small farm, luckily adjacent to an Agricultural Drainage Ditch. Unfortunately the field between our 170 year old farm house, and said ditch either has no tile field, or the tile field has ...
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Sump pump knocking after water flow if sent out
Our sump pump knocks rapidly, loud, and for 10-15 seconds each time water is ejected/discharged.
-water flows freely out the exit pipe
-i plan on changing the check valve today 3/23/22
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Sump Pump not able to pump to ground/exhaust level
I have a sump pump in my basement that is not able to pump water up to the house exterior exhaust, which is about 10 feet above it.
If allow the water to exit the exhaust a few feet above the sump ...
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Water coming up from concrete in middle of basement
So after a major snow storm, about 10 inches, two 60 degree days of melting it, and then heavy rain all day the next day I go down to my basement where right in the middle was a giant pool of water ...
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Submersible pump won't continue to run
Last summer I put a Wayne VIP50 submersible pump under my crawlspace. This winter there's about 6" of water in there and I checked out the pump. Since the discharge hose had a kink, the water ...
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Is there a way to fix a Watchdog sump pump float sensor that is stuck on?
I came home after 2 weeks to hear my pump running. The 10 year old Model BWC1 Watchdog dual float replacement sump pump controller was stuck on. The float mechanism looks clean, perhaps a bit dusty. ...
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Creating an air gap in sump pump discharge to prevent freezing
My sump pump discharge is located ~6" above grade and the drain line is on the surface (i.e. not buried). I'd like to create an air gap so that the water has somewhere to go if the drain line ...
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Can I tie into current outlet for waste pump?
I added a waste pump in our basement to transfer sewage and am needing to add an outlet. I'm wanting to know if I can tie into an the existing outlet for the sump pump? Or does it need to be on it's ...
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How to determine if tethered sump pump float switch is triggering at the right height?
Yikes! It rained a ton yesterday and my basement flooded. Water soaking the floor. When I looked into the sump pump, it had lots of water in it. I pulled up on the float and it all emptied. As we ...
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Sump Drainage Options
I seem to have an overactive sump. Last year there was an empty lot next to my house. My builder raised my sump because it was running almost constantly. This year I installed sod and a small sump ...
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If I build walls surrounding sump pump, water heater, furnace, A/C, will it work stopping flood water from spreading to entire basement?
In the past, my basement was flooded twice. Both of which where lower than 8".
I'm wondering if the following works to prevent future flooding of my basement or stop water from spreading to the ...
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Basement Watchdog Battery Acid
I have a Basement Watchdog Special System & needed to replace the battery. Just filled all the cells & waited & rechecked the level & are all exactly at the line on the BW Battery &...
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What are the two white plugs on a Zoeller sump pump used for
I've done the trouble-shooting for stoppage of my Zoeller (M53). I un-did screws on both
top switch-housing and the lower housing where motor-coil is visible (with a 10uF white capacitor
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How good are Hydromatic sump pumps? [closed]
I just replaced a Hydromatic D-A1 with date 4-98. It was in service most likely from 1998 till I replaced it here in May 2021. 23 years on duty. I’ve owned the house since 2007 and it was there. It ...
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Can Sump pump basin depth cause damage
I have a dirt basement and replaced a bug-box sump in 5 gallon bucket setup, with a 1/3 HP submersible iron pump. The new basin is about three feet deep - I drilled some holes in it, and added garden ...
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Sump Pit Not Holding Water
Moved into a new house built in the 1970's and discovered that the sump pump was not operational. I replaced the sump pump, re-attached everything, and poured water into the dry sump pit to test ...
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Sump Pump Set Up
I have two pipes coming from my sump. One sends water outside to an underground pipe. The water is then expelled through a French drain in the yard away from the house. The second pipe comes through ...
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Framing near rough in plumbing and sump pit
Going to be framing in a bathroom in our basement that has rough in plumbing.
How close can i frame to a sump pit?
And can framing go over a concrete drain box or do I leave a gap in the bottom plate ...
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Avoiding circuit overload with primary + battery backup sump?
In a two-pump, battery-backed sump system, how do people avoid excessive power draw when the battery charger and primary pump want to run at the same time?
I'm imagining a post-hurricane scenario: The ...
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Mountain top drainage issue
We live atop a large hill and due to how the driveway is I constantly have water and mud on top of a small area of my driveway. This area is supposed to be a low area to care water down the driveway ...
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