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"Take a look in the sump. Is it filling completely and pumping out? Is the pump at the bottom of the sump?" I have a summersible pump. It fills a little less then 1/3 of the way on my 18 inch by 24 inch sump pit, then gets drained. I will look in to setting the float so it fills more of the...

I know that this may depend on many factors, but it seems that my sump pump cycles quite frequently. I'm hoping someone here can say that my pump cycle is either normal or not. Here are some facts: .3 hp sump pump, with 10 ft of head, 1.5 inch discharge pipe that is around 90 ft long...

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The discharge pipe is 1.5 inches. The height difference between pump to discharge area is roughly around 8 - 9 ft. I don't know the exact model of the sump pump that I have, but the previous owners installed Zoeller Sentry 507 series back up system. Not sure if a main sump pump is packaged...

My sump pump discharge pipe was discharging water in to a bad area. During heavy rain (3 inches in 24 hours, let's just say), the area forms a puddle completely covering the discharge pipe. When this happens it dumps a lot of water where the discharge pipe meets the 90 degree PVC joint that...