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Here is everything complete and finished.... The workers did all of the work including bringing in the 24"x 36" basins and they were very heavy duty sewage basins.... with tops... haven't done that yet... Also I had a electrician come in and give us two more 20 amp circuits, one for the pumps...

D45 The cost was $2600 for all of the labor hauling away the dirt,concrete,and bringing the gravel and mixing the new concrete. and the large Basins, I provided the PVC and pumps and power. They did the job in 9 hours. which was great as we did not want this dragging out... I'm sure others...

Here's the main and back up pumps in Basin #1, another Zoeller Pump is in Basin #2 and they will alternate back an forth.... The back up pump is a Big Dog battery back-up with a extra Battery in parallel with the main so you can get longer life out of the pumping time. When it's just a slow flow...

Well they finally got the new concrete packed in along with all of the rocks... and I must admit for a while I was wondering if it was ever going to look OK again.... but yes once I washed everything down and we started installing the PVC tubes and Check valves it started looking like our idea...

I hooked up a hose to one of our Hot water tanks and we washed down the floor and filled the area around the basins with gravel and rock and packed it down. Also you can see we put up plastic before we started to not let any dust or concrete get out of the area we were working.... I thought...

Now we have them flat and level .... also the tubes are connected and no leaks...plus we have a lot of tank to handle the water coming in to our house. They had to keep a old sump pump running while we were doing this to keep the water out of their way. Also it was a dry time of the year this...

Here we have hooked up the inside corrugated pipe to the inside PVC tube and also the outside corrugated pipe to the PVC tube. We drilled a 5" hole and then the rubber seal is 1/2" thick ... so we had to grease up the PVC tube to get it thru from basin to basin and also on the two input PVC tubes.

Now they had to dig the other hole for the second basin and drill the holes for the PVC pipe that ties the two basins together. We drilled a 5" hole 6" from the bottom of the basins, that put the PVC pipe a couple of inches off the floor of the basins. Another point is that on a standard basin...

I wasn't a big fan of calling out a company to do this work for us.... but we wanted it done in a timely fashion and clean as possible. After watching these guy's work together ... there was no way I could of done this type of work as quickly as they did the job. They jack hammered out the...

After lurking around here for a year .... I thought it time to give back .... I like to Thank all of you guy's as your knowledge is the Best and very helpful when you get into projects. Our Sump Pump was running ever minute.... on for 20 Seconds and then off for about a minute. That meant that...

Just a new guy from the midwest and believe this Garage Journal has the best knowledge base on the internet. I'm a guy that likes to do things myself but am getting older and need idea's of better ways to do stuff. I have a write up regarding Sump Basins I want to post just to help others... and...

I'm surprised no one is using a Fire Extinguisher ......just put a Schroeder valve in the top so you can add air pressure......put a hose on the trigger.....and only use about 10-15# of air pressure...... That's the way we did it at the race track for years....

We've been using a Nussbaum jumbo scissor lift for many years, an it works great. I'm going to get their scissor lift that goes up to 9000#lbs in the near future. Extremely well made and will last a long time.....also the paint finish has has held up good no chips or peeling and is used every...

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Thanks.....I've always been a Garage Puppy......and this site is the Greatest.....and many talented folks....:beer:

Good idea.... need to look into that.... I've contacted many steel building companies and they all seem to be in a niche market and don't like to deviate from the norm.... :dunno:

Rock Thanks will check them out tomorrow..... Rburk They seem to focus on the thinner metals....26/24/22 gauge.....not sure why.....

Anyone know of any steel buildings that use 18 gauge roof/ 18 gauge side walls....most want to use 22gauge and I like to use thicker metal so we can use nut-serts to attach various banners or pictures..... KMP259

Long time lurker......great site .....good to learn from the pro's.....Great Ideas and Garages......much to absorb and apply..... Thanks in advance for the future projects KMP259