Water Powered Back Up Sump Pump - Basepump Installation Video

Basepump manufactured by the Base Products Corp is the best solution for those that have water issues in their home. Due to electrical outages and other issues many sump pumps fail. Up until now the only back up was battery operated pumps that sat in the sump with the primary pump and in theory would activate when the primary pump fails. The problem with a battery back up is that requires electricity to operate as well. A battery charger charges a marine battery which in turn powers the back up pump. Unfortunately the failure rate of these systems and the cost is quite high.

Now there is an alternative that does not require electricity or batteries and works using the home owners own cold water supply. The Basebump is activated when the primary pump fails and turns on pulling cold water from the tap. The water creates a vacuum as it passes through the Basepump and for each gallon of tap water it draws it pulls two gallons of sump water.

Remember, this is an emergency situation and the pump will operate only when necessary. Now a homeowner can leave their homes and never have to worry about a flood in their basement that can cause many thousands of dollars in damage.

Homeowners can call a local plumber for installation of this unit because it requires a tie into your mail cold water supply line. This should only be attempted by those that know exactly how to do this. Base does sell a pressure fitted water line installation kit for those comfortable with plumbing, but don't want to have to sweat the components.

The installation can be done by a good DIY individual that is comfortable with this type of project. Although I am a DIY guy, I called on the A.J. Perri company in Tinton Falls, NJ to do the install and I was very glad I did. This would have been difficult for me to do myself and might have ended up with a disaster as I attempted to hook up my water supply. Read my article on the international press web site for more info. internationalpress.com

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[lenrapp]

Visit our web site and click on the reviews. We updated the article to include more information on the install of the discharge pipe. Hope this helps.

[lenrapp]

Actually, to clear up the confusion, the models with the AVB must discharge downhill and away from the Basepump and open to atmosphere on the exterior. Even when the discharge goes into a larger underground drain pipe, the connection between the smaller pipe from Basepump to the larger pipe in the ground should not be a sealed connection, but have an air gap, as any sump pump discharge should have, including the main electric one.

[lenrapp]

@lenrapp The reason for the downhill run has nothing to do with whether the pipe is flexible or rigid. It is about the remaining water in the discharge pipe after the pump shuts off. If it slopes back toward the pump, that water will flow back to the Basepump by gravity and spill out of the AVB valve onto the floor. Instead, you want that remaining water to flow outside by gravity.

[lenrapp]

It's only a problem if the water spills back into the house when you run the pump and it turns off. If there is no spill, there is no problem. If I remember correctly, the pipe from the pump went approximately straight out and then down to the drain. This should be fine unless you experience a spill. Let me know after you run it. Check the connection where the smaller pipe meets the larger one in the ground. It should be loosely fitted there, not glued and sealed.

[lenrapp]

Here are the answers from the Base Company to this question...hope this helps. I will check my installation to be sure we didn't glue the discharge pipe to the main and if so will make the correction so the connection is not a glued one. Hope this helps others in their installation.

[MrJspro]

It APPEARS THAT THIS PLUMBER DIDN'T READ THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT THE DISCHARGE HOSE IS SUPPOSE TO SLOPE DOWNWARD AWAY FROM THE PUMP FOR THE A.V.B MODELS?

[lenrapp]

@MrJspro Now I recall why we did ours this way. There was no way for the water to back up since our discharge is a closed system and the water goes out of the house down the discharge pipe you see in our video and out the 4" pipe to our towns system. In an open system where the water drains to the outside of the home and onto the ground, that danger exists. This is why Base told us to do ours this way. Glad you pointed this out to help others understand.

[MrJspro]

If you go to there web site on any a.v.b models the discharge tube is a flexible so there will be no chance that sump water can back flow to your drinking water, imange what pollutants come from that water, any grass fertilizer would filter down to the basin, better to be safe

[lenrapp]

We read the instructions and saw that is said we should install 6" above downstream outlets and was told we could install it this way. I will double check with Base and let you know. We went over the instructions very carefully before the video was made to make sure it was correct.