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Some key things to keep in mind when selecting a sump pump for watering your basement is
always make sure you have a pump that is capable of handling the amount of volume that you
may potentially have beneath your slab.
Most pump are designed for watering a high capacity pump third hose half power or 3 quarters
half power pumps. These are designed to handle lots of amount of volume. Mostly watering
the pumps will also have a screw in check valve built in to the base and this is a key
feature. This will actually stop the water from coming back down the discharge pipe back
into the aligner and potentially ending up back on the floor. A typical sum pump involves
a check valve, inch and a half PVC pipe coming through the liner and having your sump pump
built liner. Once the step pipe comes through the lid you always want to make sure you have
a mission coupling. A point where we could separate if we have to have service in the
pump that’s the key and having that discharge pipe and inch and half PVC pipe run to the
wall, and clamp to the wall securely is also a key so we don’t have vibration for or
any loose fittings that come from that. Once that in and a half PVC pipe runs up the wall
the best place discharge a pipe is through the band boar or rim joys of the house coming
outside above grade.
Once we come out above grade we 90 degree elbow back down toward the grating and typical
practices inch and a half PVC pipe to a full range pipe. The full range pipe will be then
be buried underground out the way suitable means of a collection point if you will for
that water. Never ever run your discharge pipe just out on top of the surface of the
grass or on the lawn this can erode the sand, or seeds, or any grounds and obviously sink
holes and freezing and everything can occur to that. You always want to make sure your
basement water from that sump pump underground out to a suitable collection point.
Also on that downward end of that discharge once we come through the rim joy or the band
board and drop down outside the house you also want to have a freeze preventer on there.
So you don’t have enough structure on their aligned potentially causing that pump to overrun
itself within the basement. A lawn magnum is a great tool for discharging water and
it’s actually a ferocity stone that is buried on the ground for the 6 inches and disperses
water through a much deeper level just on top of the property. Avoid just running a
pipe underground to a dry well or pit of stones if you will against sinkholes. Sinkholes are
created with that in backups and can occur in well.
So always make sure you have a suitable means of collection in the end of your discharge
pipe there.