Brick
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I recently purchased a ranch style home with exposed basement. We had considerable rain for one day and the sumppump was running every 10 seconds for about a week and has still kicks on every 3 minutes right now even though we haven't had any measurable rainfall in approx. two weeks. Talking with my niehbor next door, his sump pump never runs but the guy on the other side of him has two running all the time. The water is run 30ft away from the house from the sump and downspouts by 4in. drain tiles trenched underground and eventually running out down hill. The pump is a sealed submersible and the crock it sits in doesn't have drain tiles entering from the sides like a conventional setup, but has small holes in the bottom allowing water in. I'm guessing that the water coming in isn't runoff at this point but rather groundwater. I was told by a contracter friend that I should unplug the pump and see if the water came to a certain level and stopped, which it did. He said to then monitor the walls and floor for dampness and if none appeared after a couple of days, to adjust my pump setting to that water level and all should be okay. Sound accurate?