On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:19:28 GMT, "Toller" wrote:


"mm" wrote in message
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On 27 Dec 2005 08:13:42 -0800, "KJ" wrote:

Hello All,

After the check valve, the sump drain pipe goes up about 2', then 90deg
elbow straight across the room and into a waste pipe. So the sump drain
pipe is right in the middle of the wall.

What I want to do is have the pipe go up straight 7' (to just below the
joists) before elbowing towards the waste pipe. Is this too high for
the sump to pump a column of water?

My situation was worse than the other examples. Mine goes up 7 feet,
but rarely ran, sometimes not for months. Yet, when for the first
time in 22 years, I had 7 inches of rain within 48 or maybe 30 hours,
the pump was running full blast and loads of water was coming out of
it, but it still couldn't keep up with the water coming into the sump
from the soil outside, through the corrugated, perforated black
plastic pipe that surrounds my house underground.

Interesting. My sump pump doesn't work (I drained my water heater into it

Did the float go up high enough to flip the swtich on the pump? Etc.

and it just sat there, the water draining out of the crock naturally),
probably from sitting there for 23 years without ever cycling. I was

Are you sure it never ccycled. Maybe it just broke recently.

thinking of simply covering it over to gain a little more floor space.
Maybe I should fix it instead? My backyard is a fairly steep slope down, so
I figure any water has someplace better to go than into my sump.

Well, whatever cover you use, make it removeable and restorable, if
your area is like mine, where sump pumps are required in below-grade
basements (but not where one end of the basement is above grade.)

My sump came with a thick plastic cover that has a U cut out of it to
allow the pipe and the float rod to fit in it. I havent' nerve
enough to step on it, but I do occasionally put things across it.

And I've used it as a stencil for a couple neighbors who didn't have a
cover at all. (I wonder who threw away their covers, and why.)

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me know if you have posted also.