[Shop-talk] water in basement

[doug at dougbraun.com (Douglas Braun)]

Couldn't you run a pipe sloped downwards from the low point of your
basement until it reached the surface somewhere down the hillside?
Then your basement would be self-draining!

Doug

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Jack Brooks <jibjib at att.net> wrote:
>>Even one of those cheap drill-powered things would be
>>better than trying to lug all that water up steps!
>
> Which is why I used a siphon to empty 16 inches out of my basement.  I
lived
> on a hill, so it was possible.
>
> Jack