Kind of time sensitive plumbing question. Any plumbers?

[Charney]

My wife and I have been looking at houses. Found one today we really like. Has a nice space to upgrade my fish room. Only catch there is no plumbing in the basement. The HVAC and hot water tank are down there. They drain into the sump pump well if needed. As far as I can tell the sewage line is ground level. About how much does it cost to add plumbing. Not so much concerned with getting water in but more so with getting it out. I imagine there will need to be a pit and pump. The fish room will be about 3,000-4,000 gallons. If it helps i am located in NJ

thank you

 

[ruincccc]

I did some quotes in WA, it was around $2000+ for adding a pump, $1800+ for plumbing (I needed a drain line to the sewage from my garage).

 

[Charney]

I did some quotes in WA, it was around $2000+ for adding a pump, $1800+ for plumbing (I needed a drain line to the sewage from my garage).

Thank you. Was it the saniflo?
How were going to heat the garage?

 

[tiger15]

Your situation is ideal for setting up a fish room, which is like mine when I moved in to my house 20 years ago. There was already a sump pump and a hot water tank in my basement but no faucet. The first thing I did was to ask a plumber to install a washer room faucet and sink. The sink is drained to the sump pump a short distance away, and the faucet is adjacent to the hot water tank where connection to the hot and cold water lines is just a couple feet away, The installation cost is low because the plumbing distance is minimal, probably under $200 in today money. In doing water change, I start the siphon by filling up a garden hose with water from the faucet and relocate the drain to the sump.

 

[Charney]

Your situation is ideal for setting up a fish room, which is like mine when I moved in to my house 20 years ago. There was already a sump pump and a hot water tank in my basement but no faucet. The first thing I did was to ask a plumber to install a washer room faucet and sink. The sink is drained to the sump pump a short distance away, and the faucet is adjacent to the hot water tank where connection to the hot and cold water lines is just a couple feet away, The installation cost is low because the plumbing distance is minimal, probably under $200 in today money. In doing water change, I start the siphon by filling up a garden hose with water from the faucet and relocate the drain to the sump.

I would love to do that but are you allowed to drain water into a sump pump? Also any issues draining 500+ gallons a week into a sump that goes to the street?

 

[tiger15]

I would love to do that but are you allowed to drain water into a sump pump? Also any issues draining 500+ gallons a week into a sump that goes to the street?

I am not aware of any illegality of dumping WC water to street that is ultimately pick up by storm drain. Fish waste water carries no foul smell and no more solid or chemicals than storm water runoff, so quality wise it is not unacceptable. 500+gallons is nothing in comparison to 10,000+ gallons drained from a single home swimming pool yearly at the end season.

 

[wednesday13]

Im in a somewhat similar scenario… i have basement plumbing/drains but im on a septic system that can only handle 500gal a day. I installed a sump pump for my fish water to get it up and out to a storm drain. I also run auto drip systems and ran as much as 800gal a day out of it. Currently around 400g a day.

 

[tiger15]

Is there a way to divert the sump water to irrigate your lawn during warm months. My upstairs WC water is drained to a storage tank for later lawn and garden irrigation during warm months, but dumped into the toilet in winter.

 

[FJB]

I too have a similar situation (basement without drains, only ‘French drains’). Waste water from the two floor upstairs collect through pvc pipes mid height the basement walls, to a common junction going out to connect with city sewer line. Washer machine conects to that, and we installed a utility sink with H/C water and a pump connecting to those pipes. All my aquarium waste water goes through submersible pump with garden hose and dedicated window outlet to irrigate gardens outside (-400-600 gals weekly), which I move to different areas.
just a note - 500 gals weekly quickly amounts to much more than a 10,000 gal pool once a year.

 

[tiger15]

I too have French drain connected to a sump pump in the basement that discharges to the sanitary sewer. Nowadays it’s illegal to connect sump pump to sanitary sewers in NJ and most states for concern of overloading regional sewage treatment plants. The sump is below slab making it feasible to siphon water out of floor level tanks. Doing WC requires full attention to prevent accidental flooding. The hot and cold faucet enables easy and safe filling of multiple tanks without having to run garden hose from upstairs. For my upstairs tanks, I find it safer to drain the water to a temporary storage tank for later integration where I can direct the water with a garden hose and submersible pump to different parts of my lawn and garden.