Who keeps tanks in the basement?

[krichardson]

Interesting. so when the water goes to the floor drain where does that drain excess the water out? I thought it would be a sump pump pit?

The floor drain leads out to the street...to the sewer line.

 

[krichardson]

When I bought this house there were quite a few things that I iked about it and that drain was the cherry on top of everything else.

 

[Irecruitfish]

Joe, can you post a pic of the discharge pit AND how the sink drains to the pit? I'm thinking that what you have is a sump pit that is normally used to collect the perimeter drain water around your foundation but usually a sink is not connected to this type of sump pit.

The other thing to check is if the pit water discharge is connected to the house sewage system or if it just exits the house and is dumped somewhere out in the yard or maybe to a swale or ditch near the road.

Anyway, you would want to avoid getting too much sand or gravel into the sump pit as the pump could prematurely fail though some types of these pumps can move smaller solids.

The gurgling noise you are hearing is probably just some of the discharge water running back toward the pump after it shuts off.

Definitely not the sump. I know where that is and recognize the gurgling noise the sump makes. Here are a couple of pics of the pit. The noise is occasional which concerns me.

 

[Steve_C]

That's power right there! Once the water drains to the laundry tub where does it go from there?

Just like Krich's does my drain goes right out to the city main drain in the street. Going from your picture it looks like you have somewhat of the same thing my sister does at her house, she's got a sump room area just about like that as well.

 

[SfirtenK]

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I put in 9 steel column, with a header plate, to be able to have 200 gallons in the living room. 120 year old sandstone walls.

I did almost the same installation in my 1917 house.

 

[markstrimaran]

This is my current, sump tray. It allows the pump to kick in once the rains flood 3" deep. It like a 10 year, 10" of rain in a 3 day deluge.

A floor drain under the blue tub, goes to into a 120 year old leach pit.

 

[jimmie d wad]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jimmiedwad&sp=QgIIAQ%3D%3D should be a link to my channel. ALL MY tanks have been in the basement for the last 15 yrs. Its nice draining the water right to the floor

 

[markstrimaran]

Siphon drain used only to drain enouph water to catch females, holding eggs. And the rare vacuuming.

 

[Irecruitfish]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jimmiedwad&sp=QgIIAQ%3D%3D should be a link to my channel. ALL MY tanks have been in the basement for the last 15 yrs. Its nice draining the water right to the floor

Your basement does have quite a few tanks. Nice setup man. Your lucky that you can drain it to the floor versus my setup.

 

[Drstrangelove]

So, I had a similar if not identical set up in my basement as the OP near Chicago. The basement was what is called a partial, so that about 5 feet was below the surface, with another 3 feet above, or just enough to place partial windows (window wells) for an emergency escape if there was a need.

The sewer lines to the street were above the bottom of the basement, so water basement drained down (from the washer, sink, external snow and water runoff outside), was first drained into a sump pit and then when it reached too high a level, the sump pump would pump the water up and into the sewer line.

If you are now hearing weird noises, it's something a plumber could look into. Normal noises are the pit being filled with water, the pump turning on, the water being pumped upwards, the pump turning off. "New" noises would in my experience make me worry about the pump or the discharge pipe having issues.

It's not something I'd want to wait too long on as if the pump goes out, I'm thinking that a basement flood would be in the works..