Well recently I did some testing and found that immedietly after my sump pump would discharge about 45 seconds later I notice a nice increase in water coming in from my perimeter drain. So what I did was re configured my 1.5" pvc and now have it coming out of the side of the house turning 90 degrees down and dumping into a 6" 10 ft section of pvc with an agrees I've slope away from foundation. I have an air gap between my 1.5 where it exits the house and the 6 inch pvc. Now I'm nervous about potentipotential
freezing where pipe exits the home. My 2 pumps have check valves and I know they hold water in the pvc but I cannot remove them because of the way my back up pump is configured. My current setup is temporary as my old setup has a broken pipe somewhere when it passes through my foundation ... 1.5 ft depth. But the new temporary setup I was thinking about making permanent next spring. What do you think about keeping my same current setup except having my 1.5" house exit dump 90 degrees down into 6" straight down into the ground at 40" deep and running to the rear of my yard into a drywell? No I don't have heavy clay soil. Was also thinking about just coring a hole through foundation at the described depth but that is more work compared to just dumping into a pipe which leads to that depth. Clear as mud? Lol let me hear it!
freezing where pipe exits the home. My 2 pumps have check valves and I know they hold water in the pvc but I cannot remove them because of the way my back up pump is configured. My current setup is temporary as my old setup has a broken pipe somewhere when it passes through my foundation ... 1.5 ft depth. But the new temporary setup I was thinking about making permanent next spring. What do you think about keeping my same current setup except having my 1.5" house exit dump 90 degrees down into 6" straight down into the ground at 40" deep and running to the rear of my yard into a drywell? No I don't have heavy clay soil. Was also thinking about just coring a hole through foundation at the described depth but that is more work compared to just dumping into a pipe which leads to that depth. Clear as mud? Lol let me hear it!
