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Thanks for the confirmation! Very helpful!!

Kid=pit

And good idea behind the toilet. Ill get an extra sensor

Thanks. Well, that's what I thought "should" be, but like I mentioned... There is a hole in the kid for the cords to come out. It's air right only by a piece of cardboard covered and slathered in...

Mark! Thank you!

So I'm going to look into this battery inverter combo STAT!

As for the water Guardian, is there any way to put a sensor in the pit? Ideally I'd like it to shut the water...

Can you give me more specifics on the marine battery I would use, what kind of inverter exactly and how to set it up? My local plumbers I've called are claiming there is no battery method with...

Mark!

Many thanks my friend.

Well I wondered about a solution like you've mentioned too. Thank you!

Some follow up questions.

Here's why I thought I would need the backup pump and...

I started my own thread, please answer there... Thanks

Hello,

I have a sewage ejector pump in my finished basement. It has no backup. I figured I should invest in some sort of a backup system, but I need some help.

The pit ejects the bathroom...

Hello,

I have a sewage ejector pump in my finished basement. It has no backup. I figured I should invest in some sort of a backup system, but I need some help.

The pit ejects the bathroom...

Ok

I didn't build this house or this wall folks. It's a rehab of a 100 year old house I bought and they finished the basement. There's some concrete in there but I feel like I can see some spaces that...

The wall is in the middle of the house guys. It's an old house. Was rehabbed. There's a small area where two cement slabs have exposed ground. Should I get cement in there to fill the hole? This...

Hello,

So I recently had a shower leak into a basement wall. The problem was solved, but the water also seeped down the wall and into the dirt at the bottom of the wall inside. What can I spread...

Ok guys! Problem solved! I took the fancy wall lenth shower fixture off and turns out there was only a small hole at the bottom that the hoses came through for it and the leak was in the fixture,...

Huh, went to Menards... nothing even close to that plug or that could be substituted even. What's the best place to buy that plug?

Ok then, will do! Thanks again!

Ok, finally home as the arrow on the thing between the black nuts does point flow up, so seems right in there. Right?

Thanks for that! Damp rid already Doing, guess I'm going to have to rip the wall up to get bleach in there is the only option huh?:-(. Thanks

Thanks guys. I am on a work trip And I get home tomorrow for them to come and do the work. I have other questions maybe you can help with that too?

So my shower fixture in basement has a rain...

Any help would be appreciated our seller is coming to look at it tomorrow and I'd really like some inside knowledge before I lose my opportunity to address this on their dime. Thanks

Hi folks,
Love this site firstly. So helpful for a First time homeowner! Thank you.

So my shower fixture in basement has a rain shower and separate body showers. Turns out it was connected...

Mark! It does have a P Trap.

Do I need to put anything enzyme wise in the basin before I seal it up or can I just flush some in the toilet? Etc?

I'll go look for a plug. If I put a hole it...

Hey folks, OK here are some pix as promised. As you can see the hole is indeed where the wires go in. The lid is just screwed down, is that sealed enough too? The valve for the ejector leaks as...

The 2in hole is there along with 2 lines out, one is the main line that ejects waste and the other is a vent line, I know cause it's labeled vent.

This is an overhead sewer system, so I believe...

Thanks so much for the reply! I'm not home till Saturday and we are having some work done on the pump, more to follow on that, so I can't post a pic yet. But, if it helps, we have a brand new...

Hello!
We've recently had a bad smell in the basement, like sewage. We live in Chicago and have an overhead sewer system. The pump basin doesn't stink much, but it has an opening... Is that...