MrsBugmaster
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Good morning. Have been busy the past couple of days and haven’t been on here.
We have a “forced”walk out basement, which means they just dug a big hole in the ground and called it a walk out instead of building house into the side of a hill like normal walk out basement are done. Bad idea, don’t ever do this! Anyway it has two outside sump pits to keep basement from flooding and both pump went out. When we bought the home it had only one pit… basement flooded 3 months after moving in. Now we have two sump pits for redundancy. Only one plumbing place carries the same brand pump for easy plug and play, but want $95 just to come give us an estimated and won’t sell us just the pump. My husband says screw that, we can do it ourselves… 2 days later we are still working on it. Different brand pumps so nothing lines up , one of the old pumps didn’t even have a union on it. Had to cut and redo all the plumbing in a 5 ft deep pit. Fun times! :rolleyes: One is in and works hopefully will finish up the second one today.
We have a “forced”walk out basement, which means they just dug a big hole in the ground and called it a walk out instead of building house into the side of a hill like normal walk out basement are done. Bad idea, don’t ever do this! Anyway it has two outside sump pits to keep basement from flooding and both pump went out. When we bought the home it had only one pit… basement flooded 3 months after moving in. Now we have two sump pits for redundancy. Only one plumbing place carries the same brand pump for easy plug and play, but want $95 just to come give us an estimated and won’t sell us just the pump. My husband says screw that, we can do it ourselves… 2 days later we are still working on it. Different brand pumps so nothing lines up , one of the old pumps didn’t even have a union on it. Had to cut and redo all the plumbing in a 5 ft deep pit. Fun times! :rolleyes: One is in and works hopefully will finish up the second one today.
