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How does that thing sit flush with the concrete floor, with those big knobs sticking out on its underside?

I am putting a toilet in a basement with a tiled concrete floor, requiring me to remove tiles and jackhammer concrete. I am installing 4" DWV pipe for the toilet. My plan is to bring the DWV pipe up higher than the floor, pour concrete to level and re-install tiles up to the pipe. Once...

Just out of curiosity, are you saying you are adding 2.5 parts water to one part sodium hypochlorite and then storing this product??

That pitless adaptor tank is an interesting installation. I wonder where the pressure switch goes.

Thanks. Not a bad price and cheap insurance at that!

Ingenious device. How much do they retail for?

Thanks for that. I have only seen these advertised but have never seen one up close. A friend of mine who lives in the southern part of our Province phoned me last night for advice on one of these units. The company that sold it to him told him it would produce 65 psi on a constant basis...

http://www.burcam.com/en/products?view=details&mainsection_id=100&section_id=20&cat_id=220&sku=506532SS Has anyone ever tried one of these units? They claim a pressure tank is not required for this pump.

Just read your latest post. That saves testing the ball valve. I would still test the check valve, once you replace the shutoff ball valve. However, this is beginning to sound like a large hidden leak in your house's plumbing system.

If there is a check valve on the pump. I have seen a lot of installations done, mostly by older installers, with the check valve near the bladder tank and not on the pump. I believe this method is from the era before bladder tanks when galvanised air tanks were recharged with air each time the...

Either way.

Or, you could just look in your breaker panel. If the black wire goes to a breaker, and its matching white wire goes to the neutral bar (where all the other white wires are connected in your panel) chances are 100% your pump is wired for 115 volt. Just sayin'......

I feel I am missing something here. If the caps are vented, why do these wells only overflow if the cap is left off?

Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) - heavier than air and very flammable. Flammable range 4.3-46%.

Sodium hypochlorite bleach is made by the following formula, combining sodium hydroxide with chlorine gas. Cl2 + 2 NaOH = NaOcL + NaCl + H2O "Excess caustic" means the volume of NaOH added is carefully controlled to a) achieve the concentration of NaOCl desired and b) leave enough remaining...