If that drain is in the basement Id almost guarnatee its an old floor drain. I have clients ask to cover them all the time. Run a garden hose down it for 20 minutes. That will take the guess out of the issue.
For the sheetrock, rent the 19.95 HD truck or beg a friend for an hour of thier time.
As far as the drain goes, there are two ways to untilize that floor drain.
For the sheetrock, rent the 19.95 HD truck or beg a friend for an hour of thier time.
As far as the drain goes, there are two ways to untilize that floor drain.
- 1. T off the overflow and open a valve to divert the water from the sump into the drain. This works but you depend on the return pump to move the water and unless you have a very large pump chamber you have to replace the water as its draining thus losing a small percentage of the new water your putting in due to it mixing in the dispaly tank. This is how I have my in-wall set up. Im changing it in the near future.
2.Plumb your tank as if there were no floor drain. Then after turning off the return pump and letting the sump fill to capacity, use a remote pump with a hose to clean the detritous out of the sump until its empty and then use the same pump to refill the sump to the same level. This will give you 100% new water displacement instead of running ?% down the drain.
This can either be done with soft pipe and move the pump from container to container or in my case hard plumbed to the sump via bulkhead and using four valves. I gets complicated to explain.
