Last night around 7pm, I noticed our sump pump sounded different. It has been going on like crazy with all the snow melting on top of all the rain we just had. We checked it & the motor was humming and starting to burn out which smelled really bad. It was still working, but on its way out. We turned it off while Pete ran to Home Depot to get a replacement. It took us a while to get started because we wanted the kids to get to bed, but we started and around 9:30pm, we realized that our original pipe was too large for the sump pump! We had been working among gross sludge so this wasn't a good thing! Pete made it back to Home Depot right when they closed, got someone to help him (apparently, they no longer carry what we needed, so we had to make a few adjustments) and finally made it back home around 10:30pm.
Finally, after cutting the pipe, cement gluing pieces etc...we finally got the pump back in the hole in the ground and turned it on! Took it quite a while to get the water to drain, but its been operating just fine! Last thing we need is another flooded basement ( : especially when we're trying to move. This has been the craziest winter ever, 10 inches just 10 days ago and 2 days a go, a pond in my backyard! Even this 40 degree weather is nice! I'm scared that winter may get prolonged into April or May. End of May 1996, I was flying back from Calgary & was stuck at O'Hare for 8hrs due to a blizzard in West Michigan (flying back to Traverse City).
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