disaster yet again

Hey guys. I spent yesterday plumbing the pump drain line into my new 2" line from the washing machine/laundry sink. The original setup had the pump draining into a hole in the basement floor,hole being connected to the sewer. So every time the pump operated it was too much at once, all the water would overflow.

I bought a new pump as well. It has a tether float,and a switch inside the float. Nifty,but I still need to fine tune it as the float get's caught up on the well wall a little bit. I'll just zip tie the tether to the pump so it cant move towards the wall and done!

The basement is now on it's way to drying out.

Today we will move everything out of the basement with the help of my wifes family and put it in storage. No room here,so it's all going in a unit. Yahoo another bill I cant afford!


To answere some questions regarding drainage. The house is on the side of a mountain,lot's of bedrock at the back of the house where the trough is. The original owner would have been an Italian,and they use a weeping wall at the back to allow the water to collect in a trough. Cant stop it or change it without rebuilding the entire back of the house and digging out all that bedrock,so it stay's how it is. There is likely zero drainage tile around this house,it's just how the italians did things in the 30's and I cant expect better from them ,lol! Lot's of bedrock there,even some visible at the high end of the trench,and that is where most of the water comes in.

I took some pics yesterday. I know they aint car pics but when I have time I'll post em up. It might help explain this better.

Like I said I'll cap off the trench eventually and completely eliminate the fickle pump arrangement. I feel like I should be babysitting this pump all the time,and I cant.