Are DWV fittings acceptable for 1 1/2 PVC sump pump lines, or must the
heavier ones be used?

I needed a Y and could only find it in DWV.
Thanks.

toller wrote:

Are DWV fittings acceptable for 1 1/2 PVC sump pump lines, or must the
heavier ones be used?

I needed a Y and could only find it in DWV.
Thanks.


Yes, that will work fine; the pump discharge is not high pressure.

Jim

In article , "toller" wrote:
Are DWV fittings acceptable for 1 1/2 PVC sump pump lines, or must the
heavier ones be used?

Not a problem. It's not under all that much pressure. The Schedule 40 stuff is
rated up to somewhere around 400 psi, and I'm dead sure that your sump pump
doesn't produce anywhere *near* that. The pressure required to lift water is
roughly 1/2 psi per foot of head, so a sump pump capable of developing a head
of, say, 15 feet (which is more than enough to get water out of any
residential basement I've ever seen) only needs to produce 7 to 8 psi.

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And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

"sump pumps give head"

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "toller"
wrote:
Are DWV fittings acceptable for 1 1/2 PVC sump pump lines, or must the
heavier ones be used?

Not a problem. It's not under all that much pressure. The Schedule 40 stuff
is
rated up to somewhere around 400 psi, and I'm dead sure that your sump pump
doesn't produce anywhere *near* that. The pressure required to lift water is
roughly 1/2 psi per foot of head, so a sump pump capable of developing a
head
of, say, 15 feet (which is more than enough to get water out of any
residential basement I've ever seen) only needs to produce 7 to 8 psi.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?