feartheride
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New to the forum and Not sure if this is the best place to post this
I am looking for an electric pump that will suck small amounts of water out of my basement floor like a vacuum and I could just pump it out the window or in the basement sink .
Has to be able to suck like a vacuum cleaner because I rarely get more than 1/ 8th to 1/ 4 inch of water
Right now I am using a vacuum and just leave it turned on emptying it every 15 or 20 minutes .
Usually it is not bad I can suck up five or 10 gallons and that’s the end of it .
But sometimes like tonight I am emptying the vacuum every 15 minutes for two hours and is now starting to slow up .
I have a block foundation and when it rains really bad water is seeping in the bottom of the blocks
Not sure exactly if the water is coming from ground water or the fact that my septic system fills up completely when we have bad rains
The ground gets so saturated that I believe the The septic bed drainage tiles fill up the and back up and fill my tank
When the tank is full that puts my level about 4 inches over the exit waste line from the house .
I did the weeping tile 15 years ago and hopefully will get around to doing the back of the house where the problem is again this summer
If the septic is the problem it’s possible it’s backing up the line and leaking out somewhere by the foundation which again will require possibly running a camera up the line to see if it is damaged .
Anyways for the meantime looking for an electric pump that I could just leave turned on for a few hours when I have an issue .
I am looking for an electric pump that will suck small amounts of water out of my basement floor like a vacuum and I could just pump it out the window or in the basement sink .
Has to be able to suck like a vacuum cleaner because I rarely get more than 1/ 8th to 1/ 4 inch of water
Right now I am using a vacuum and just leave it turned on emptying it every 15 or 20 minutes .
Usually it is not bad I can suck up five or 10 gallons and that’s the end of it .
But sometimes like tonight I am emptying the vacuum every 15 minutes for two hours and is now starting to slow up .
I have a block foundation and when it rains really bad water is seeping in the bottom of the blocks
Not sure exactly if the water is coming from ground water or the fact that my septic system fills up completely when we have bad rains
The ground gets so saturated that I believe the The septic bed drainage tiles fill up the and back up and fill my tank
When the tank is full that puts my level about 4 inches over the exit waste line from the house .
I did the weeping tile 15 years ago and hopefully will get around to doing the back of the house where the problem is again this summer
If the septic is the problem it’s possible it’s backing up the line and leaking out somewhere by the foundation which again will require possibly running a camera up the line to see if it is damaged .
Anyways for the meantime looking for an electric pump that I could just leave turned on for a few hours when I have an issue .
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