How would you plumb this? I hate plumbing!

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I hate plumbing and can't figure out how to plumb my overflow to my sump.

The overflow is the Glass Hole 700gph with the 1-1/2 elbow.
The sump is a Sapphire 34 with two 1" intakes
They are offset left to right by 18"
Plus about 30-36" difference from top to bottom.
Plus about 6" from the back to front
See Photo

I was hoping to using Flex PVC or Braided Vinyl, But the difference from the 1-1/2 to 1"
is messing me up.

I need your help please.

fittings.jpg
 
I would reduce the 1.5” elbow fitting down to 1” right away. Then you’ll just have the 1” run to deal with and you can do vinyl or flex or whatever. One could argue go 1.5” the whole way and ream out the plate on the sump to help mitigate potential problem with not having a backup drain (at least not that I saw). But if you go that route, you’d still probably have to have a gate valve on that to tune your flow so I’m not sure you’d really gain anything safety-wise by going 1.5” the whole way. If you do reduce down, your hd or Lowe’s will have that fitting. Here’s one I found pretty quick:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Charlot...-x-S-Reducer-Bushing-PVC021071150HD/203811539
They also have the sch80 ones at brs.

There’s always a dozen ways to do these things. Good luck!
 
I would reduce the 1.5” elbow fitting down to 1” right away. Then you’ll just have the 1” run to deal with and you can do vinyl or flex or whatever. One could argue go 1.5” the whole way and ream out the plate on the sump to help mitigate potential problem with not having a backup drain (at least not that I saw). But if you go that route, you’d still probably have to have a gate valve on that to tune your flow so I’m not sure you’d really gain anything safety-wise by going 1.5” the whole way. If you do reduce down, your hd or Lowe’s will have that fitting. Here’s one I found pretty quick:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Charlot...-x-S-Reducer-Bushing-PVC021071150HD/203811539
They also have the sch80 ones at brs.

There’s always a dozen ways to do these things. Good luck!

Great thank you for that link, that's a great start!
From there I should be able to piece together something I think!?

Steve
 

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