How far back into the house does it need to be? If you have access to the top, could you install an upside down p-trap inside the house just before it exits?
In my case the water level needed to be below the soil level. I suppose I could have done that...but I would have had to tear out finished walls to do so. My solution was driven by not having to tear out a wall. Thanks for your input.
Is this fix still working? This is a problem I never thought of and accidently designed into my now dual sump pit. My horizontal discharge pipe is 7 feet long with a 1.5" drop per foot. so NO water is left in the horizontal pipe. I live in northern NH.
Good Day! We sold the house last October, but I NEVER had an issue since I set this up. So I consider this a success. Sure there will always be naysayers but proof is in the pudding and I never had another frozen plug. Interesting side note: when we sold the house the inspector looked at the setup and mentioned it looked different. I "explained" it prevented frozen plugs at the outlet outside and he said "great!" and never mentioned it again. The horizontal pipe with a slant is a great idea. It did not occur to me at the time. 👍
get rid of the check valve..it pockets the water.... then in the summer work on the outside and figure out why the water is coming in. it looks like a tiny line.. when it exits the house have it go into a larger pipe outside with a space in between them then the water will go out and "gravity" feed the larger pipe around 6 in below it.. the exit tube looks like a 90 degree.. bad idea.. water will freeze right there..
My line is frozen and I have no idea where. There's so much snow I don't even know where the pipe from the discharge goes. I have to run my sump pump to my utility sink until I can make sense of this. Of course we just got more snow.
Mike C yeah man my sump pump drain pipe is metal and goes into the basement wall...which is like 5 feet underground...so there is like no way I can unfreeze my pipe.
I have a finished basement and would have had to tear the wall out to install it. This seemed to be least invasive solution and it has never failed since I have done it. Thanks for your input.
Mike C I am originally from California. I never had these headaches not only because of the weather but because we never had a house with basement. Since I moved to Canada having a basement is pretty much the norm. Now it is a necessity as ours is a suite for my father in law. But before he moved in with us we used used our basements to accumulate MORE STUFF lol. I never had so much stuff before...now we are trying to minimize the stuff we hang on to. It is just not worth keeping stuff we don't use.
