[Shop-talk] FW: Was water alarm, now sump pump. MORE

[marty sukey]

Doug, Brad, list. I think figured it out. I double checked the slope. Yup, 28
inches from house to ditch. But when I got to thinking about it something
dawned on me. I see the pipe as it comes out of the house and goes down next
to the outside wall but have no idea how far down it goes before it goes
horizontal towards the road. It probably(might) goes down below the frost line
and then out to the ditch which means it would have to go UPHILL. Duh, why did
I think of that before.

Marty

> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:07:12 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] FW: Was water alarm, now sump pump. MORE
> From: doug at dougbraun.com
> To: trmarty at hotmail.com
>
> Maybe it's not really going downhill, but just looks like it is? Is
> there a non-return valve at the outlet of the pump? If that is
> securely attached to the pipe, a break in the line from the pump to
> the valve would now do what you described.
>
> Doug