Joekid
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I have two buildings on my property; a home I live in and a large (1800 sqft) shop. I will be retiring sometime in the next ten years and the plan is to rent out my house and build a small apartment in the shop for my wife and I. I want to place the bathroom and sewer plumbing out there now and am looking at options. In order to get enough fall for the sewer line I have to run the line out to the FRONT of my house. It is a fairly long distance across concrete and asphalt, past utilities etc. It also means that I have to trench inside what is going to be the apartment area to get to where we want the bathroom to be.
A second option would be to go a shorter distance around the back of the house along an easily trenchable area. The problem is that by the time I get to the house I will be too low to hook into the home sewer line. I estimate that I will be about 3 feet too low by the time I get there so I would have to pump up at that point. I am VERY handy and was a general contractor at one time but don't know anything at all about sewage pumps. My questions then are as follows:
Are sewage pumps generaly durable?
Are sewage pumps reasonable to operate?
How bad does the gravity option installation have to hurt before going to a sewage pump?
What is a good sewage pump?
Is pumping 3 or 4 feet a big deal for a sewage pump?
what maintenance is required for a sewage pump?
What else can you tel me about a sewage pump or what questions am I not asking?
A second option would be to go a shorter distance around the back of the house along an easily trenchable area. The problem is that by the time I get to the house I will be too low to hook into the home sewer line. I estimate that I will be about 3 feet too low by the time I get there so I would have to pump up at that point. I am VERY handy and was a general contractor at one time but don't know anything at all about sewage pumps. My questions then are as follows:
Are sewage pumps generaly durable?
Are sewage pumps reasonable to operate?
How bad does the gravity option installation have to hurt before going to a sewage pump?
What is a good sewage pump?
Is pumping 3 or 4 feet a big deal for a sewage pump?
what maintenance is required for a sewage pump?
What else can you tel me about a sewage pump or what questions am I not asking?