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Posted by chrisc on April 19, 2008, 8:01 pm
By digging and installing PVC, meant diverting the water away from the
house. If you have a huge area and dig a hole in the middle of it that is
where the watere will go. With the trench and pipe the water will be carried
away. There should not be that much water there that the pump is kicking on
that often! This brings problems to the foundation walls also (mold ,
moisture, etc)
> wrote:
>
> >It keeps kicking on every few minutes. This has been going on for weeks.
> >I
> >know their is a spring thaw. But, there can't be that much water in the
> >ground can there?
>
> Considering that the ground is 1000's of miles wide, yes there can be.
> The amount of water that you pump out with the sump pump is trivial
> compared to the water that is out there. Your sump has a diameter of
> maybe 18 inches, and area of 253 square inches, less than 2 square
> feet. How big is your yard? Many many times as big. Plus maybe you
> are draining the next guy's yard, and doing it alone if your sump
> level is set lower than his.
>
> >The water is coming in through one of the cast iron pipes
> >in the pit . There are 2 of the pipes in the pit opposite to each other.
> >The
> >one pipe that the water is coming in from is on the one side of the house
> >where the ground is sort of unlevel. There is no visible water and the
> >ground is not even moist there.
>
> How far below ground level is your basement floor? How far below that
> is the water level in the sump. The water only has to be a little
> higher than the water in the sump gets. For my house that's about 7
> feet below the surface of the ground. I can't see through more than
> a foot, so I certainly can't see that deep.
>
> >That side also is where the gutters drain
> >out to. But the water is coming in pretty fast from the pipe in the pit.
> >I
> >would say about 1 GALLON per 40 seconds. My friend said we need to dig
> >and
> >put some pvc pipe in for drainage.
>
> Don't you already have iron pipe of some sort, going into the sump,
> doing what it's supposed to do? Where does he want to put pvc pipe?
> In the same place? Better don't ask him. Check with someone else.
>
> >It hasn't rained that much either. I'm
> >scared that if the pump stops working the basement will flood.
>
> It's possible. If the "water table" is higher than your basement
> floor, that's what will happen. My pump ran a lot when I moved in,
> and I raised the float a couple inches and it only runs 1/4 as much as
> it did. The rest of the time, the water is almost 2 inches higher
> than it was, but still several inches below the floor.
>
> >What can I
> >do? Could there possibly be a broken water main near there? Thanks a lot
> >for
> >any help.
>
> Maybe a water sub-main. :)
>
> How high in the sump does the water have to get before the pump turns
> on? Can you hold the float down so the pump doesn't go on, and see
> how high the water gets? When it starts getting close to the floor,
> close to overflowing, let go of the float so that the pump turns back
> on.
>
> But in some cases, if the float is set to run when there is say 14
> inches of water, it will run over and over and over, but if you hold
> the float down the water never gets over say 15 inches,
Another thing to check that no one has mentioned so far is where is
the sump pump discharge going? It should be 15ft+ away from the
house.
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