I have a similar system and we got 5 inches last night and at one point it was running non stop for 30 minutes. Last storm was 7 inches and the pit popped out. I drilled 5 holes in the bottom but it partially popped again last night. Pressure when the ground saturated is tough so my gut says, more holes in the bottom but I was wondering what the bottom of your pit looks like? Thanks
An Ion Storm Pro BA75i 3/4 HP Sump Pump would kick out about 85GPM in that scenario. It also uses far less amps/power than most sump pumps that put out that much volume. Also, do you have a weep hole drilled for air to escape to avoid air lock?
Came here to suggest exactly this. I have one of these with a Hydrocheck 6600 electronic switch and it moves a hell of a lot of water. In a duplex setup with dedicated discharge lines even two half horse pumps would move an incredible amount of water as well.
@@dubester1982 The idiot owners that had our house previously dug out a spot in our crawlspace about 15' long by 4' wide x about 4+' deep and put a cinderblock wall all the way around. They put the water heater at the upper end and dug a makeshift open sump (literally, just a hole with no line or anything) at the lower end and threw a 1/3HP pedestal sump pump in it. They had to have poured a concrete slab or the wall itself would have sank in over the years. However, they turned a few of the concrete blocks sideways to serve as drains. So when it rains inches of rain, depending on the time of year and how fast it rains at once, water flows in from behind the wall from the crawlspace dirt and runs across the open floor of the hole. That caused dirt to be deposited over the years from the behind the wall, forming to be inches deep across the entire length of the floor of the hole. What made it worse? They had a piece of wood hanging down from the floor joist above that the pedestal pump was attached to, so it vibrated the entire room when it came on. Worse setup I have ever seen and far too costly to fix. We'll probably just move and let someone else deal with it when we sell the house, but we won't hide it from them. I ended up just digging out the makeshift sump even deeper, putting a liner down and surrounding it with smaller rocks that also act as filters for the dirt. I put in a BA-33 1/3HP Ion Storm Pro set to come on if the crappy cheaper 1/3HP pump got overwhelmed somehow (unlikely). I have seen upwards of 50+ gallons per minute flow across the floor of that hole when it rained 3-4 inches over a couple of days and it would do that for sometimes 2-3 days. It goes a lengthy distance from the house and those submersibles are also awesome in that the water helps cool them constantly. I preferred to set the Ion Storm Pro to be the secondary because it costs so much and our pump doesn't have to come on very often during a year. However, there was a storm one time before I put those in where there were inches of water running across the entire neighborhood in a flash flood due to completely saturated ground with already a few inches of rain that had fallen. For events like that, I'm glad that I put in overkill. Each pump has it's own pipe that goes into a larger pipe outside of the house. Of course, right before each pipe tees into the other, I put check valves after each pump to avoid any issues.
Yeah this is a cheap 1/2 hp Zoller pump from lowes. Whenever it eventually goes bad I will upgrade to a Zoller M98 which is much faster. I have one on another area of my property.
@@frenchapple1458 Wouldnt go with a bigger pump it will break earlier They are faster means, they switch on/off more often. Lets say it takes 1min to fill the sump and 1min for the pump to empty it, means a 2min cycle time. A bigger pump only needs 30 sec means. One cycle 1:30min, means 33% more cycles.
@@frenchapple1458 look at Ion pumps first, if you haven't already checked them out. I am a fellow water nerd, and these and solid state switches are the way imo
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I have a similar system and we got 5 inches last night and at one point it was running non stop for 30 minutes. Last storm was 7 inches and the pit popped out. I drilled 5 holes in the bottom but it partially popped again last night. Pressure when the ground saturated is tough so my gut says, more holes in the bottom but I was wondering what the bottom of your pit looks like? Thanks
I can watch this all day for some reason lol
Nice video. “Water nerd”🤣. I guess that’s me. I would be switching it off until it was full so I could watch it drain like this.
You need a more powerful pump for this application
An Ion Storm Pro BA75i 3/4 HP Sump Pump would kick out about 85GPM in that scenario. It also uses far less amps/power than most sump pumps that put out that much volume. Also, do you have a weep hole drilled for air to escape to avoid air lock?
Came here to suggest exactly this. I have one of these with a Hydrocheck 6600 electronic switch and it moves a hell of a lot of water. In a duplex setup with dedicated discharge lines even two half horse pumps would move an incredible amount of water as well.
@@dubester1982 The idiot owners that had our house previously dug out a spot in our crawlspace about 15' long by 4' wide x about 4+' deep and put a cinderblock wall all the way around. They put the water heater at the upper end and dug a makeshift open sump (literally, just a hole with no line or anything) at the lower end and threw a 1/3HP pedestal sump pump in it. They had to have poured a concrete slab or the wall itself would have sank in over the years. However, they turned a few of the concrete blocks sideways to serve as drains. So when it rains inches of rain, depending on the time of year and how fast it rains at once, water flows in from behind the wall from the crawlspace dirt and runs across the open floor of the hole. That caused dirt to be deposited over the years from the behind the wall, forming to be inches deep across the entire length of the floor of the hole. What made it worse? They had a piece of wood hanging down from the floor joist above that the pedestal pump was attached to, so it vibrated the entire room when it came on. Worse setup I have ever seen and far too costly to fix. We'll probably just move and let someone else deal with it when we sell the house, but we won't hide it from them. I ended up just digging out the makeshift sump even deeper, putting a liner down and surrounding it with smaller rocks that also act as filters for the dirt. I put in a BA-33 1/3HP Ion Storm Pro set to come on if the crappy cheaper 1/3HP pump got overwhelmed somehow (unlikely). I have seen upwards of 50+ gallons per minute flow across the floor of that hole when it rained 3-4 inches over a couple of days and it would do that for sometimes 2-3 days. It goes a lengthy distance from the house and those submersibles are also awesome in that the water helps cool them constantly. I preferred to set the Ion Storm Pro to be the secondary because it costs so much and our pump doesn't have to come on very often during a year. However, there was a storm one time before I put those in where there were inches of water running across the entire neighborhood in a flash flood due to completely saturated ground with already a few inches of rain that had fallen. For events like that, I'm glad that I put in overkill. Each pump has it's own pipe that goes into a larger pipe outside of the house. Of course, right before each pipe tees into the other, I put check valves after each pump to avoid any issues.
whereabouts does this discharge?
It discharges to a natural woods/wetland area behind my property that has a large drainage ditch.
what kind of soil do you have? Is it mostly clay or sand?
Florida so it’s a sandy soil.
Would a 45 degree elbow improve flow vs a 90 ??
Hardly for a pressurized unit
Well done, great!
Thanks!
It depends on the size and quality of pump to a certain extent I have a flow tech 1 hp no problem whatsoever
Yeah this is a cheap 1/2 hp Zoller pump from lowes. Whenever it eventually goes bad I will upgrade to a Zoller M98 which is much faster. I have one on another area of my property.
@@frenchapple1458 Wouldnt go with a bigger pump it will break earlier
They are faster means, they switch on/off more often.
Lets say it takes 1min to fill the sump and 1min for the pump to empty it, means a 2min cycle time. A bigger pump only needs 30 sec means. One cycle 1:30min, means 33% more cycles.
@@frenchapple1458 look at Ion pumps first, if you haven't already checked them out. I am a fellow water nerd, and these and solid state switches are the way imo