that's what I did, when the guy told me my hook up was done. I went over to the hose and turned it on full and pointed it at the wall of the house. We had this kind of thing done outside along the wall that had previously had settlement cracks. I heard a great whoosh and on and off and on and off of that sound. He told me to stick the hose down into the well, I heard a great whooshing and it started and stopped with the on and off of the hose. I asked why, and he said it was due to the fact that the pump was capable of more than the hose output.
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Tom Fowle wrote: > Claudia, > this is probably over the top, but ask the contractor if the pump is hooked > up, and if so, flood the basement with a few buckets of water and see if the > pump goes on. > > Or ask them if they will do that to demonstrate to you that it works. > > If you add water away from where the pump is, and the pump goes on fairly > quickly, it would seem there is pipe for the water to go through. > > This is off the top of my head too early sunday morning and may be entirely > nuts. > > What do more experienced folks think of my radical tests? > > Tom Fowle >
