I am trying to figure out what is needed for 1 full bathroom (and possibly a second full bath) that is located approximatily 19′ below the city sewer main. All of the info I have been able to gather seems to indicate that a simple sewage pump that has the abilty to handle 2″ solids (hope you aren’t reading this before dinner) is all that is needed. In other words I do not need a grinder. Is this the case? Adding a grinder seems to really jack up the price from 300-600 dollars for the non -grinder to over 2000 for the grinder.
I am in the design stage of a new house so any info would sure be a help.
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Locate the pump so that the pressured side pipe goes straight up and 2 feet above the gravity sloped sewer line. Seen too many of them that goes horizontally for some distance. Going staight up would give you about 22' of pipe with sewage vs. 50' to 100' of sewage stored in a pipe.
Lots of pumps check valves leak, so the water drains back into the sump, making the pump cycle on and off repumping the same liquid over again.
Backwater valves are required from sewer below grade level, but they dont work when the main sewer backs up. Hopefully there is a place when you can place a loose clean out cap that will pop off to discharge the raw sewage outside instead of in your house.
Put yur lift station out in the yard and not in the house. Cleaner in the event of a problem....
Add a back flow preventer at the foundation...
Back up system for when the power goes out cause yur system will back up...
Children???? Consider the grinder....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....
WOW!!! What a Ride!
"Put yur lift station out in the yard and not in the house. "
Gee, that's what they did in my house. 30 years and 2 owners later when it was covered with grass and we didn't know it was there, it made for an expensive problem.
Why is this?
Somebody ferget a X marks the spot???Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
There was uninterrupted lawn over 'the spot', and it wasn't any greener than any other lawn. Had they informed of it's existence, the house price would have been lower, as ALL of the house waste goes through there, and we are looking at a couple of thousand dollars every 5-8 years to replace the pump as it wears out.
while we're on the subject...
you have any suggestions about how to plumb the dwv for a toilet and sink in an outbuilding? the particulars are: shop to house distance (approximately, conservatively, from proposed location of toilet/sink to closest point of existing waste line in crawl space under house to septic) about 75'. floor of shop about 8'-10' below drain line under house (depending on where i tie into it- could tie in farther away without needing to go up so high)
the only 'ejector' toilets/pumps i've found so far need set up as you described above- straight up then long slope down. obviously that won't work in my situation without running a 'sewage aqueduct' across my backyard about 10' high.
ideas? thanks,
m
I have seen sewerlines attached to the propertyline block wall. The line on the wall flows by gravity.
ya lost me... ?
m
I would think he means he has seen a block wall erected on a property line that seperates one's property from the neighbors.This wall somehow has a sewer line connected on it that slopes downward to the septic thereby moving the wastewater by gravity feed.
Or something to that effect.
Buy hey, whadda I know? stolen byline