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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

A functional sump

In less than 60 minutes of professional help, we have a functional sump pump and several hundred fewer dollars.


The sump basin is now much cleaner. I wouldn't drink out of it, but we can see the bottom now. This new sump is quiet. So quiet we can only hear it if we are standing right next to it. Which is a problem, since we would have no idea if it stops working, until the basement gets really damp.

So I installed this:

It's powered by a 9V battery and the water sensor is attached to a wire - so it was pretty easy to drop it to the top of the basin. It does work....I dipped the sensor in water and it does make a super load beep. Hopefully it'll still work years later, should the sump ever fail. 

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