sump pump

Rustynuts · MAGNETAWAN, ONT

sump pump

studeshaker · BUCKHORN, ONT

using an extension cord ? if so, maybe the wire gauge is not heavy enough. my upright is 15 years old and still good. anything that takes alot of power on start-up i always use 12/2 cords.

Ratmotor · PARRY SOUND, ONT

I just have a Canadian Tire submersible unit in the dungeon.... Before I put it in the hole I wrapped it with screen to keep the crap out of the impeller as the former one picked up a piece and jammed. This one has been going for over 5 years now.

Sacotu · COBOURG, ONT

i keep 2 sumps in the hole with the newer one to kick in 1" higher. i usually get 3 years out of a pump from ctc. normally i don't need them but for about 2 month every spring they are going full tilt.

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

same , the upright ones have never been a problem for me

thing is to keep track of how much noise they make

when they are getting rough they make a lot more noise

got city water supply ? - I had a sump pump back up pump , that ran off the city water pressure so if the electric one barfed I still had a working pump to back it up

also works if the power goes off - good as that often happens when the power is off , it's raining hard and the pump really needs to work

Smokin Joe · ONTARIO

I have three pumps two 1/2 hp. with one as backup and also battery backup that I am glad I had two years ago. The 1/2 hp. have a life time warranty but they want you to mail it to them when you have a problem. So what do you do for a pump when it is in the snail mail to get fixed and you also pay for the mail. Just another warranty scam that I ran into with Loews products.

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Virtually every product sold through a big box store states 'do not take back to store', but rather contact and return to manufacturer. If you live in or near any major center, there is probably a pump shop there. The problem is everybody wants to pay the lower price offered by the box stores until it breaks and then want the convenience of the pump shop which guarantees and services their pumps but probably charge a little more up front. As the old saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Also, most stores will exchange a defective product within 30 days and after that it is up to you and the manufacturer. That's why warranties are not worth caring about, it usually costs more to get it fixed then just buying a new one.

I have never bothered with warranties unless I can drive to my car dealer or the company will come to me.

Sorry for the rambling.
Warren

Rustynuts · MAGNETAWAN, ONT

its all about who can make the cheapest product ...sell it to the box stores and hope it lasts a year.......that's our disposable thinking nowadays. asia strikes again!!!

hotroddonnie · BARRIE, ONT

We can only blame ourselves for the **** on the shelves. Nothing last forever but if its made in CHINA I try..... and I realize everything is made in CHINA but I try hard to not waste my money and time buying their crap! I just replaced mine last spring and it was only 2 years old. I know this because I also put that one in. I went to CT because it was close and I wasn't sure how long I had till my basement flooded. The only one they carried was the one I just burnt out, same pump, different color nothing else different at all, and made in CHINA! There's two I bought in two years and if I had of spent twice the money and bought another made someplace else I probably wouldn't be replacing this new one in another year from now, putting my total sump pump purchases to 3. The first one I replaced was here when I bought the place 17 years ago, so it's lasted 14 plus years. As Warren said! Sorry for the rambling. PS don't get me started on rubber seals and gaskets! HRD

Marten · RICHMOND, ONT

All the guys have said some good things here. The only place to buy pumps from are pump stores. Depending on where you live you will find them. Big box store units are designed to fail. Goes with just about anything in a big box store.

Rustynuts · MAGNETAWAN, ONT

well I just ordered this from amazon.ca......will be here Tuesday.....check out the price and description.....way better than the box store crap...hopefully!!!!
www.amazon.ca/Zoeller-53-0016-115-Volts-Mighty-Mate-Submersible/dp/B0029P68HI/ref=sr_1_1

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

if the shaft rots through simply cut the shaft and outer tube and reassemble

I did that a couple of times too

they also last much longer if you place a patio stone in the bottom of the sump well for the pump to sit on

slim · DUNDAS, ONT

I was guilty of it myself when I lived in a place with a sump . But it will help if you cycle it every month to keep it free . most of the small ones are low Hp and it docent take much to overload them and burn out . sitting Idle for 8 months in water can cause it to stick a bit.

Lightspeed Mike · BELLEVILLE, ONT

My basement flooded first year I bought my current house. Sump pump rotted through the bottom. Went through 3 more pumps in 6 months till I told my plumber about it. He said, Ill get you a good one. Cast iron, got it for his cost, (I did his maintenance on his service truck). That was 13 years ago, never a problem since. I don't remember the brand, but I know he got it a plumber supply store.

Rochie · LONDON, ONT

The Zoller and a couple of others are the best way to go. $250.00 RETAIL is cheap compared to the alternative.

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

idle for 8 months .. lol

upright pump in my basement ran several times every single day - even without rain

and yeah the last 3 were crappy tire pumps

3 in 20 years , not so bad except they always crap out at an inconveniant time .. like the middle of the night

chips · Veteran Member

DJD wrote:

upright pump in my basement ran several times every single day - even without rain

Wow, that's the first I've heard of a houseboat having a basement biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Are you kidding me? Several times a day, all year round? I'd offer to sell you some swamp land, but it sounds like you've not only bought some already, you've gone and built a house on it too. The first thing that crossed my mind was "holy hell, if that's not a recipe for mould, I don't know what is". Just curious, how's your respiratory health?

RacerRick · TORONTO, ONT

It depends where you live. When I lived in Windsor, every house with a basement had a sump pump basically since the water table was close to the surface. Whenever it rained, it would raise the water table enough for the pump to be needed, and around spring it was running all the time. I don't ever remember replacing the sump pump so they lasted at least 5 years.

Rustynuts · MAGNETAWAN, ONT

I found my receipt and I apparently bought the pump in 2010 for 175.00 after taxes. So thats $35.00/yr . The new pump had better last longer!

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

lol

actually I was living on the top of a large hill along the side of the rouge valley .. across from where the glen eagles hotel used to be

or maybe more correctly I was on the edge of the table land between rouge and highland creek valleys

2 or 3 feet down the soil stoped and clay began - I used to have a great view of the cross section via the cliff across the opposite side of the valley

pic of the street was the view i / we had for 48 years until the house sold in the spring

chips · Veteran Member

DJD wrote:
lol

actually I was living on the top of a large hill along the side of the rouge valley .. across from where the glen eagles hotel used to be

I know that area well (pun intended biggrin , but I actually do). That's crazy that your place was so damp/soaking wet. Were your neighbours in the same boat? (sorry, another pun biggrin ).

To be honest, in my opinion, for a sump pump to run daily, all year long like that, it's my guess that either your foundation was poured over an extremely shallow ground water source or your town water supply was leaking just outside your foundation. Knowing that location, it just doesn't make sense to me that there is that much ground water available, as an area in general .... it definitely sounds like there must have been a specific cause for this. That area is definitely NOT "low ground".

I wasn't kidding when I asked if you (or anyone else in the house) has had respiratory issues.

-- Edited by chips on Tuesday 24th of November 2015 07:16:19 PM

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

where my house was , on the opposite side of the road from the valley , the back yards sloped down

so it was a bit swampy in the spring but as I found by finding a well at the bottom of a hill down in the valley the ground water in the higher table land has to reach a point under the hill where it starts going down under ground

so in effect we might have had a bit of an underground collection pond

yeah the other neighbours had pumps too - even the 70's subdivission that was built behind us had pumps in the ajoining lots

I have asthma ... but I think that had more to do with my room as a baby being over the dryer that had no outside vent so the basement ceiling was a bit lint-ie when I was little

there was some comic relief with the pump .. watching people walking past jump when the water started coming out the end of the pipe at the ditch

-- Edited by DJD on Tuesday 24th of November 2015 07:31:50 PM