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Posted by trainfan1 on February 23, 2007, 9:33 pm
Ben wrote:
> http://www.hockspot.com/ben/pic1.jpg
> http://www.hockspot.com/ben/pic2.jpg
>
> Oh boy! Me and the wife are about to purchase our first single family
> home.
> I was a good little homeowner and DIYer and decided that I should get
> an inspection, since there is much I don't know. The inspector was
> good, but couldn't tell me what this setup in the basement was.
> There is a sealed pit. There are two pipes. Once goes up and outside
> the house, poking out into the alley between houses. The other pipe
> comes up about 2 inches, crawls along the ground, and then ducks back
> into the ground.
>
> At first I thought the pump was supposed to dump water outside the
> house in a potential flooding situation.
>
> This morning I called roto rooter and the guy came out to take a look.
> He wanted to talk half of the time, so I nudged him along. Eventually
> we figured out that the pipe going outside the house is just a vent.
> The pump inside the pit fed into that little pipe along the ground.
> There is a basement drain nearby. His best guess is that rainwater
> spills into the pit and then gets pumped into the sewer. (into the
> pipe leading to the drain.)
> So here are the questions.....
> 1) This house is 50 years old. There is no evidence of drain tiles. So
> what is feed the pit?
> 2) Has anybody seen a setup like this before?
> 3) Roto-man said that he doesn't see the floor drain holding water. He
> thinks there is no trap. Can I do something about sewer gasses without
> breaking up the floor?
>
> Thanks!
> -ben
>
It's a radon vent. The cord is way too light duty for any kind of water
pump that might be subject to severe duty cycles.
Rob
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