On Mar 7, 11:35*am, harry wrote:
On Mar 7, 11:37*am, Mikepier wrote:

My water heater has a 3/4" copper pipe from the T&P valve extending
down about 8" from the floor. I have a sump pit about 5 feet to the
left. I wanted to somehow route this discharge pipe into the pit in
case somethig happens.
Obviously it would be easy if I used some kind of flexible hose rated
for high temps. Is there anything wrong in doing it this way? How is
it usally done?

If you have a sump pump and it starts up, it will burn out very
quickly, they are water cooled. Hot water is not going to cool it.

I don't think it will ever come on in a situation like that. It will
just leach into the groundwater.
When I first put my pump in the basin, I wanted to test it. I poured a
5 gallon bucket of water in the basin to make it come on, but the
water quickly went down and the pump never turned on. I did manage to
finally turn it on with 2 buckets poured in.