"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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h wrote in message ...

Buy pump, plug it in, stick it in the low spot, stick the hose out the
door, you're done. At least that's the way it is in my field stone
basement. . The pump only comes on when it senses it's sitting in water,
and voila, dry basement. It's a total no-brainer.

What if the basement floor, like most, is pretty flat and has no low spot?
The no brainer is to have a sump, otherwise the floor needs a couple of
inches of water before the pump starts.

Agreed, but my 18th century basement floor is SO not level, and I think
that's the case with most field stone foundation basements. I still can't
believe some idiot poured a concrete floor for mine, sometime in the early
1900s, I'd guess. It would have been MUCH better to have left it dirt, as it
is in the root cellar portion of the basement. The root cellar gets wet, but
the water soaks right into the floor. Problem solved.