quadman Indy
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Good day everyone....
I am having some problems with my current sump pump and sump pit situation. I live in a Tri-level home (built in the late 1960's) with the lower level approximately four feet below grade. Over the last few years, I have had water in my finished basement on several occassions. The first couple of times, I didn't realize that my primary pump had failed. The HomeGuard water back up system was acting as my primary pump (the alarm was disconnected - go figure) which of course added an inordinate amount of water to the already saturated ground and it wasn't able to keep up. I discovered the problem and replaced my primary pump. Since our water table is incredibly high due to over developement "upstream" from us dumping all of their rain water into an unimproved storm sewer system, water has become a real problem in my neighborhood.
Two days ago my two year old Little Giant sump pump failed and we once again had water. This time, I replaced my primary pump with a Zoeller M-53 pump. I will be switching to a battery back up system (I'm thinking of their 507 back up system) to get rid of all of the extra water from the Home Guard. My concern however, is my sump pit configuration (drawing below). I'm limited by a 1-1/4" discharge line that goes under the slab and up into the back yard where all of the excess water now tends to pool. The pit itself (well, the pit walls anyway) are also starting to show cracks. I'm assuming that's because of all of the pressure from the "extra" water from the Home Guard being in use so much over the last few years. I'm also a bit concerned that going from the standard 1-1/2" discharge into the 1-1/4" discharge may be putting too much pressure on my primary pump and what possibly caused my new pump to fail prematurely.
When I switch out the Home Guard for the battery back up, I could very easily run 1-1/2" PVC up out of the pit and over and through a different outside wall and encase the pipe in a soffit to hide it. My worries about that however, is that assuming an approximate 10' verticle rise, I will have three 90 degree elbows (and a fourth outside the wall and even possibly a fifth to turn the water toward the yard) as well as an additional 20' of 1-1/2" PVC piping to get to the outside wall. Which will give me a total of approximately 30' of PVC with four or five 90 degree elbows. I'm thinking that might be way to far to try and pump the water with my M-53 or any type of back up pump.
Any thoughts and suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated....
I am having some problems with my current sump pump and sump pit situation. I live in a Tri-level home (built in the late 1960's) with the lower level approximately four feet below grade. Over the last few years, I have had water in my finished basement on several occassions. The first couple of times, I didn't realize that my primary pump had failed. The HomeGuard water back up system was acting as my primary pump (the alarm was disconnected - go figure) which of course added an inordinate amount of water to the already saturated ground and it wasn't able to keep up. I discovered the problem and replaced my primary pump. Since our water table is incredibly high due to over developement "upstream" from us dumping all of their rain water into an unimproved storm sewer system, water has become a real problem in my neighborhood.
Two days ago my two year old Little Giant sump pump failed and we once again had water. This time, I replaced my primary pump with a Zoeller M-53 pump. I will be switching to a battery back up system (I'm thinking of their 507 back up system) to get rid of all of the extra water from the Home Guard. My concern however, is my sump pit configuration (drawing below). I'm limited by a 1-1/4" discharge line that goes under the slab and up into the back yard where all of the excess water now tends to pool. The pit itself (well, the pit walls anyway) are also starting to show cracks. I'm assuming that's because of all of the pressure from the "extra" water from the Home Guard being in use so much over the last few years. I'm also a bit concerned that going from the standard 1-1/2" discharge into the 1-1/4" discharge may be putting too much pressure on my primary pump and what possibly caused my new pump to fail prematurely.
When I switch out the Home Guard for the battery back up, I could very easily run 1-1/2" PVC up out of the pit and over and through a different outside wall and encase the pipe in a soffit to hide it. My worries about that however, is that assuming an approximate 10' verticle rise, I will have three 90 degree elbows (and a fourth outside the wall and even possibly a fifth to turn the water toward the yard) as well as an additional 20' of 1-1/2" PVC piping to get to the outside wall. Which will give me a total of approximately 30' of PVC with four or five 90 degree elbows. I'm thinking that might be way to far to try and pump the water with my M-53 or any type of back up pump.
Any thoughts and suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated....
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