So, my sump was causing my cats problems in getting to their cat boxes as it was too loud for them and refused to go past it to use their boxes.
I was pissed about having to move the sump to the far back room because if I had just planned for that in the first place it obviously would have been much nicer.
But, after removing the original sump it turned out it was a ticking time bomb waiting to split open and dump about 500 gallons of water in the basement. So now after it's done I am glad the cat had an issue with it.
Turns out because the original sump was supposed to only be 24" deep I never planned on nor did even think to go back and reinforce the thing for being 4' deep and the inner supports split away from the tank due to bowing and caused a slow leak in the back. It was pretty moldy and ready to give way.
So here is the new and improved with a much nicer design.
A view of old sump, hookups and the back room where it's going.
The basis box:
Top ridge support added:
The inner supports for the sewer drain pipe:
Screw holes filled in with construction adhesive
Second/Middle support ridge added:
Wall between bio media chamber and return area
Bio media area on left, overflow area from main tank on right. Had to build up the wall ont he right in 3 sections due to the limited room (7 inches) in that chamber.
2" Return opening and lower sight glass opening:
Upper sight glass opening:
3" drains with 2" side drains to emergency drain as well as 20% water change.
Upper valve is for the 20% drain and the lower one is the emergency drain.
Old hookups on left new hookups on right. Nothing attached yet.
Bio media holding area (2'x3'x'3') All scrubbies
Top of bio media chamber that will support the mech filter pads.
4" pre drilled drain pipes 3' long to help spread the water over the large bio media area. Water drops into the sump in the overflow area then fille up until it spills into the 4" drains and on to the mech media which then drips all over the bio media.
Building the sight glass for water level.
1/2" pvs glued into a 1" clear PVS pipe to keep the pond armor coated styro ball from going into the 90" turn.
The new sump has an overflow drain as well.
Final hookups go down under the tank out back then up tot he sump.
I was pissed about having to move the sump to the far back room because if I had just planned for that in the first place it obviously would have been much nicer.
But, after removing the original sump it turned out it was a ticking time bomb waiting to split open and dump about 500 gallons of water in the basement. So now after it's done I am glad the cat had an issue with it.
Turns out because the original sump was supposed to only be 24" deep I never planned on nor did even think to go back and reinforce the thing for being 4' deep and the inner supports split away from the tank due to bowing and caused a slow leak in the back. It was pretty moldy and ready to give way.
So here is the new and improved with a much nicer design.
A view of old sump, hookups and the back room where it's going.
The basis box:
Top ridge support added:
The inner supports for the sewer drain pipe:
Screw holes filled in with construction adhesive
Second/Middle support ridge added:
Wall between bio media chamber and return area
Bio media area on left, overflow area from main tank on right. Had to build up the wall ont he right in 3 sections due to the limited room (7 inches) in that chamber.
2" Return opening and lower sight glass opening:
Upper sight glass opening:
3" drains with 2" side drains to emergency drain as well as 20% water change.
Upper valve is for the 20% drain and the lower one is the emergency drain.
Old hookups on left new hookups on right. Nothing attached yet.
Bio media holding area (2'x3'x'3') All scrubbies
Top of bio media chamber that will support the mech filter pads.
4" pre drilled drain pipes 3' long to help spread the water over the large bio media area. Water drops into the sump in the overflow area then fille up until it spills into the 4" drains and on to the mech media which then drips all over the bio media.
Building the sight glass for water level.
1/2" pvs glued into a 1" clear PVS pipe to keep the pond armor coated styro ball from going into the 90" turn.
The new sump has an overflow drain as well.
Final hookups go down under the tank out back then up tot he sump.
