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I'm installing a basement bathroom with shower and a kitchen.. I broke the cement floor only to find lots of water under the cement floor. I started to dig out the gravel to find the P-Trap and the line that leads to the sewer.. I was digging out the gravel by hand and haven't reached the P-trap yet and I'm almost up to my elbow in water.. 11 inches of it... I tried to shop vac it out but it can't keep up.. How am I going get rid of all that water quick and install my new piping..

[speedball1]

First of all you must locate the source.
A pressure leak, a drainage leak, ground water intrusion or rain watrer run off. Good luck, Tom

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First of all you must locate the source.
A pressure leak, a drainage leak, ground water intrusion or rain watrer run off. Good luck, Tom

I believe it's rain water run off or ground water.. I just didn't think it was going to be that much...

[creahands]

If it is ground water could be a problem.

I have spring under house. Installed a sump pump and it run for 3 days before it shut off. Now it run about 3 times an hour unless it rains. Then more often.

Hope this is not your problem.

Good luck

Chuck

[speedball1]

If this is ground water/ rain water runoff then Greahands has the solution. Install a sump pump.
Do not connect the sump pump discharge to the house sewer. Run it out of the house away from the foundation. Good luck, Tom

[CHayn]

Yep, you already have the floor broke. Put the pit in now with plenty of rock around it. Pump to outside your foundation and away.

[speedball1]

A dry well may help you disperse of the water the pit discharges, (see image) Good luck, Tom

[ballengerb1]

We have not heard back from you but you are getting the righht advice, you need a sump pump, is there none now?