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On 21 Mar 2007 18:36:35 -0700, wrote:

I agreed with everything you said prior to this point.

4. Place pump in hole; run pipe (plastic is simplest) with
appropriate
couplings, outside house (not to sewer!)

Absolutely. In the townhouse next to me, someone rerouted the output
to the house drain (and neatly cemented the hole where the output pipe
had been). This means that if the sewer backs up, the sump pump will
pump that water into the drain which goes to the sewer which is
backing up. And that's a real possibility with my house and the three
next to it, which are the lowest in the n'hood, and which do flood
every few years when rain fills the stream which overflows into the
sewers and fills them. And I told the new owner at least 5 years ago
about all this, and he still hasn't done anything.

Oh, you're probably referring to the fact that even if this doesn't
happen, it overloads the sewer and is likely illegal too. That's a
good reason also.

maybe even with some garden
hose coupled on,

This why I posted. Have you tried this? The volume out of my pump
far exceeds what I believe can flow through a garden hose, even the
wider ones. Even a short length of such narrow hose (compared to the
2 or 1 1/2 inch pipe the pump takes) would restrict flow, I'm sure,
and even more if the hose were longer. My plastic pipe feeds into a
buried 4 inch pipe (and ftr that isn't coupled on but fits loosely in
case, I think, the buried pipe collapses or is clogged.)

so it drains away from house.
5. Plug it in and relax; you'll relax more if it has battery backup.

Yeah, if I had a backup that would be good -- I plan to put one in --
and it makes sense and be easier to make the first and only pump one
that has battery backup. Get the kind that runs on 110 if is there,
and uses the battery if the 110 fails. Some places 110 is more likely
to fail at the same time there is more flooding, altough that has
never happened to me, yet.)

(Although then of course comes the question whether to use battry
backup that requires maainenance, or that water powered thing whose
name I have forgotten. IIRC they are in total about the same price.
The water powered is harder to install but requires no maintenance,
and no bulky battery once it is in. As long as one pays the water
bill and doesn't get his water disconnected. That' a lot more rare
than even getting gas or phone disconnected, right?)

6. See what you can do to make sure gutters drain away from house, of
course.

HTH,
J