I didn’t watch the 30 minute video. There’s many ways to fit a “sump” as filtration. One of the main considerations is that the overflow or stand pipe height is such that in a power outage the water stops draining out of your tank before your sump overflows. As far as design goes, the world is your oyster!
I am very familiar with sumps, my question was in relation to the overflow
plumbing portrayed in the video, and is very specific to that design. The video is very helpful in understanding what I am trying to do, but in short, the plumbing goes through a traditional stand-pipe/weir overflow, runs along the ground and then re-elevates prior to entering the sump. I am under the assumption that the point of entry into the sump is lower than that of the overflow in the tank.
Attached is a crude drawing of what I am aiming to do, as the filtration will need to be in another room for this tank, but the overflow height is approx 48" at water height for point of overflow within the weir, and the entry would be around 44", giving a 4 inch drop between the 2 heights. However due to other things within the wall, and design constraints, the pipes would need to run along the floor, into the other room and then up to the height of the sump, as portrayed in the video.
My question is more of what are the limitations to this design of plumbing and routing of water, and as long as the entry to the sump is lower height wise than the overflow, is there a limitation to how much I can run it along the floor to get the water into the next room?
