My husband made this beauty/monstrosity. Our basement crawlspace was flooding, but our sump pump is located on the opposite side of the basement in the lowest corner.
Thats a shop vac that’s left on, plugged into a programmable outlet that has it run for 20 seconds every 3 minutes. The gray garden hose drains to our basement shower.
He felt it was quite loud, so he built a muffler set up using a reusable shopping bag, acoustic foam, and cardboard.
There are heavy rains in our area right now, so it’ll be a second before we can get someone out to fix the leak. I’m so proud of him!
“If it stupid, and it works, it ain’t stupid.” Awesome setup. Make sure You let him know how proud You are! When my wife gives me a compliment, my tough manly self floats away on a fluffy pink cotton candy cloud to happy land! I will pray for Your safety! Where y’all at?
We’re in the PNW, where it always rains, so I’m sure we’ll be reusing this setup again. He’s had those scraps of acoustic foam for 2 years and feels so vindicated that they finally found the perfect application 😂
You mean.... like THIS? https://youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU?si=QCSb7x1zb-M8aLgF
Yup
Exactly 😂
And the Rube Goldberg Award goes to....
NASA want guys like this when a manned space mission is the 13th...
Or on call when something strange just happened and the telemetry doesn't make sense.
Looks like you're in the dump and stumped with the sump pump !
Absurdly loud and not very efficient, but I could see it working.
Home Depot near you doesn't have a $120 1/3 HP submersible and the pipe fittings to hook it up?
Not at 11pm!
I did something similar recently to drain our crawlspace. Sucked up water with a shop vac until it was full, then opened it up and dropped in a sump pump with the outlet hose dropped into the nearby septic clean out. Then I bought a surface pump - a sump pump that works in 1/4 inch of water.