TequilaMB
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I'm a homeowner looking for recommendations for installing a backup system for our basement sump pump.
We have a full basement, sump crock with drainage pipes under the foundation empty into the crock. Have a Zoeller M53 sump pump in the crock, lifts about 6-7 feet to outside pipe just below ground level on the low side of the property.
We usually don't have much of a water problem, except in the spring when everything thaws, or in the winter when the weather is very wet, or temps vacillate so that we get a snow-melt-snow-melt cycle going on.
We've had a couple of incidents of flooding in the basement (part of which is a finished bedroom). One involved a power outage in an ice storm. The others have been a matter of sump pump failure (in one case the switch, in another case the pump motor itself).
We have a generator to power the A/C if we're home when the power goes out. But we want to add another level of protection for both power outages when we are not home for a few hours, and for the event of main pump failure.
What are our backup system options for this situation?
We have a full basement, sump crock with drainage pipes under the foundation empty into the crock. Have a Zoeller M53 sump pump in the crock, lifts about 6-7 feet to outside pipe just below ground level on the low side of the property.
We usually don't have much of a water problem, except in the spring when everything thaws, or in the winter when the weather is very wet, or temps vacillate so that we get a snow-melt-snow-melt cycle going on.
We've had a couple of incidents of flooding in the basement (part of which is a finished bedroom). One involved a power outage in an ice storm. The others have been a matter of sump pump failure (in one case the switch, in another case the pump motor itself).
We have a generator to power the A/C if we're home when the power goes out. But we want to add another level of protection for both power outages when we are not home for a few hours, and for the event of main pump failure.
What are our backup system options for this situation?