I posted something last week asking about water alarms now let me pester the
group with a sump pump question. History.. The house is 11 years old with a
sump pump in the basement. The pump discharges up and through the basement
wall at a height of about 6 or 7 feet from the bottom of the pump crock. Then
goes out to a ditch at the road. Pipe is 1-1/2 inch PVC. Total run of pipe is
around 240 foot. The drop from where it leaves the house to where it
discharges into the ditch is about 2 foot. The original pump took a dump about
3 years after we moved in naturally when we weren't home. The first pump was
all hard plumbed in. When I replace the pump I used some rubber couplings,
the kind with a couple of hose clamps on the ends to tie things together. Had
an issue a while ago where one of the couplings separated from the pipe and
the gusher flooded part of the basement. I figured I had not tightened the
clamps sufficiently. Tightened everything up and checked them every couple of
months to make sure they were tight. All was well until last week when one
blew apart again. Water in the basement AGAIN. So OK I'm figuring I should
not have used the rubber couplings. After putting the carpet back down today I
move over the pump to take those rubber couplings out and hard plumb things
back together.
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