Originally Posted By: kgrabowski This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Check out this hillbilly sump pit and pump. Owner simply bashed a hole in the slab, dug out some aggregate and clay, inserted a tupperware bin container with a cut out bottom and dropped the pump in. There are 2 lines coming into and spilling onto the aggegate and clay. First the area around and under the slab must get saturated (to what level I have no idea) then the bucket fills up and suprisingly the pump still works even after sucking out clay and silt! I would love to see what the slab will look like in a few years from now, after it washes out from underneath a bit more! Yeee Haaa!
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
it is a little ghetto, but the idea is not that bad. a little filter fabric and a better sump (like a store bought kind), wouldn’t take too much. after all the perpose of a sump/pump is to pump out water under the slab anyway. i’ve seen worse setups work just fine. still call it out as wrong though.
Originally Posted By: Joe Funderburk This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Here’s a 55 gallon drum c*#k-sided in a hole dug out in the crawl space. The drain vents about 2 feet off the ground through the front porch brick work.
Originally Posted By: rcross This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I really chckled when I saw this one because I think the guy has done some work here in colorado also. I saw the exact same set up in the middle of a basement and your picture is so close to what I saw it could have been used in my report… Maybe he is selling plans on the web!
