Well at least we hope we have conquered. Since moving back into our house (almost a year ago...crazy!), we have either woken up or come home to a flooded basement 3 times. Not good news there. All three times were because of the DAMN sump pump. First time ball couldn't move up or down becuase it was stuck on the cover. Once we got the cover off it was working perfectly. Second time one of the metal clamps that holds pvc piping to outflow pipe came loose and therefore spread water all over basement floor. Third time the ball wouldn't go up or down because the pedestal sump pump had tipped over a bit, you know what that means? I came home after a heavy downpour on Monday this past week and as I was pulling onto our street I was praying that it was ok. We had left for work in the morning and all was good and the basement was dry well not Monday night. Unfortunetly for me, I was the first home so meant I started vacuuming up the water with the shop vac. It wasn't that bad to clean up since it didn't spill over much but still it was a pain in the butt.
Yesterday we started the morning off with a trip to the home depot for a new sump pump. We are definetly not plumbers by any means but thought we would tackle the home project. After a few more trips out to the home depot and about $250 later we have a new sump pump that works! We tested it by pouring in some water and all seems to work well. It is a powerful little sucker for sure and lets just pray that when mother nature decides to test out our new sump pump that it makes us proud of our hard work. At to put it on the record, the instructions said it would take 15 minutes to replace a sump pump. That is a farse lie since you have to let that blue/purple plumbers glue dry for 15 min. Yes I would agree that once that is done it takes no more than 15 minutes if the glue is dry and you have all parts.
Here is our new little saving grace, WE HOPE!
Today we are hoping to get our master electrician (a.k.a. my dad) over to finish up the electric that we ran in the basement yesterday also. We are hoping to get the "rec room" drywalled in the next month and then carpeted in March. Lets see what happens as it all rides on that little saving grace above!
