Burying a sump pump discharge hose
I recently bought in house in Northern Iowa and have a flexible black
hose as my sump pump discharge. All the neighbors have a buired discharge. I was just wondering if anyone had any advice about how to go about burying a discharge? |
Burying a sump pump discharge hose
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Burying a sump pump discharge hose
Clark W. Griswold, Jr. wrote: wrote: I recently bought in house in Northern Iowa and have a flexible black hose as my sump pump discharge. All the neighbors have a buired discharge. I was just wondering if anyone had any advice about how to go about burying a discharge? The flex hose is useful in that you can move the hose to water different parts of the lawn. Its a minor annoyance to have to move it every couple of days to avoid killing off the grass and to mow. If you bury the hose, it needs to go below the frost line (or be sloped to drain quickly) and will have to go someplace where a fixed discharge won't annoy the neighbor or the city/county. It's pretty rare for one to be below the frost line, because the water has to go somewhere to discharge, and that is typically above ground. Having a continuous pitch away from the house, starting from inside where it exits the wall, is the normal practice. |
Burying a sump pump discharge hose
In article . com, jim says...
Remember this hose is fairly soft and will crush if ground shifts suggest you use the harder underground irragation hose more money but much better hose for job depending how cold you get whether you need to go down to frost line ,if no heavy rains durring winter put back into sewer by use of valves, use abs in house. Good luck wrote: I have a non-perforated drainage pipe running my sump pump discharge downhill to a drainage ditch in the back (woods). There is a PVC grate over the outlet to prevent critters from making the return trip. It's in a french drain that has a perforated pipe running alongside it, rocks, gravel, cloth-covered, because, in this clay soil freeze-prone region, whenever thou diggest, thou puttest drainage. It helped a wet area of my yard tremendously. Cheers, Banty -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5222154.stm |
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