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Cleaning the basement.

After many years of talking about it, The Bride has hired someone to finish our basement- the same guy who is currently renovating the single ugliest room in our house, the spare bathroom. Before he can start, there is much moving things around and throwing stuff out. And dust. I wish I had a microscope to see what this stuff really looks like.

Sine my mom's estate settled, we have some cash, and there's really no place to invest it, so it seemed like a good time to pump the economy a bit. And, our contractor has no other jobs, so he'll be efficient.

I will finally have my own office in the house.

Oh, and we're considering putting a bathroom in the basement. As it is wholly underground, this concerns me. I am told it will require some kind of pump to force the waste up to the discharge pipes we already have. Anybody have any experience with this?

nitrah55 wrote: I am told it will require some kind of pump to force the waste up to the discharge pipes we already have. Anybody have any experience with this?

I think Sir G had some experience with this last week.

nitrah55 wrote:And dust. I wish I had a microscope to see what this stuff really looks like.

No, you really don't. Trust me on this. Some things are better left unknown.

nitrah55 wrote:Oh, and we're considering putting a bathroom in the basement. As it is wholly underground, this concerns me. I am told it will require some kind of pump to force the waste up to the discharge pipes we already have. Anybody have any experience with this?

Not yet, but soon. We are getting hooked up to the town's new sewer system in a couple of months, and have a similar issue. The level of the current septic tank connection is lower, or so I believe, than the street sewer line. It's called a grinder pump. I'm told it's common and not really a big deal.

I have heard of pumps needed to force waste up, but around here just about every home has the sewer connected near or under the basement floor.

I really found this post funny because I actually thought about nitrah and basements this weekend. I know nitrah has some connection to "Scandinavian" stuff and thought of he and his bride and if they would find our bedroom in our basement an ok thing to stay in if they get out this way for "Hostfest" some year.

I have no idea why I was thinking about that but to read nitrah's post about his basement this morning was kinda weird. In a good weird kinda way.

gsabc wrote:The level of the current septic tank connection is lower, or so I believe, than the street sewer line. It's called a grinder pump. I'm told it's common and not really a big deal.

But you do have to be careful to practice Safe Sewage.

We've got lift stations with grinder pumps where I live, and the maintaining/repairing those pumps is a recurring issue for our homeowners association.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

gsabc wrote:The level of the current septic tank connection is lower, or so I believe, than the street sewer line. It's called a grinder pump. I'm told it's common and not really a big deal.

But you do have to be careful to practice Safe Sewage.

We've got lift stations with grinder pumps where I live, and the maintaining/repairing those pumps is a recurring issue for our homeowners association.

I don't think we have to worry about that too much.
No babies requiring excess waste disposal, or causing the accidental flushing of a disposable diaper.
No older children for purposeful flushing of woolen topcoats (an early Bill Cosby reference).
No stuff other than normal MAWG (Guy and Gal) byproducts going down there.

How exciting!

Have fun!

After some of the threads I've been reading, coming out of a weekend alive and not on antibiotics is a great weekend!