And as long as the drain pit (my family calls it a crock) is wide
enough to allow the float to rise.

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Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
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"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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Absolutely, as long as you have enough depth for the float or pressure
switch to operate


"gerry gardiner" wrote in message
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This may seem a silly question, but here it is. My sump pump is over
20
years old. It stopped pumping yesterday and after draining the sump
manually
and removing this pump I found the problem to be a rusted away pipe
near
what appears to be an impeller housing. Whats left of some of the
pipe is
rusted to that housing. Considering everything, I'm replacing the
pump
with
something new. What I have is a pedestal type, and over the last few
years
I've spent too much time fiddling with the float and it's guides.

Can I replace this style with a submersible one? From photos they
seem
more
compact and the float seems simpler.
TIA,
Gerry