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- Do NOT buy a cheap wet-dry vac! Just don't. And DO get a big one, no
matter how much you think otherwise. Trust me.

- DO read the instructions before using the vac to pick up water.

- After the vac tank fills with water, you have to drain it somewhere. If
the sump pump's hole is full of water, where ya gonna go with the shop vac?
Probably upstairs & outside, which means you and a helper will be lifting a
lot of sloshy weight, with your fingers under an edge that the Chinese
manufacturer didn't smooth out very well. Pick up some cheap garden gloves.


Or just fill it half-way. Or, if there is a window in basement,put the
vac outside and suck the water up from outside.