The sump pump is working well. It is discharging the laundry wash as hoped for. What I am patiently waiting for is a couple days of driving rains to determine whether the sump pump\/pit will deal with the basement floor seepage. Although we finally got about a 1\/4″ of rain in the last 24 hours, it is not enough, so I “patiently” wait!!!<\/p>\n
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The sump pump is working well. It is discharging the laundry wash as hoped for. What I am patiently waiting for is a couple days of driving rains to determine whether the sump pump\/pit will deal with the basement floor seepage. Although we finally got about a 1\/4″ of rain in the last 24 hours, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/sump-pump-installation-part-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":13,"position":0},"title":"Sump Pump installation (Part 4)","author":"Handyman","date":"September 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the concrete has cured. 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