Anyone Install a lift station themselves?

[Yoby]

I am looking into installing a lift station in my basement. It will be used for a single bathroom which will have a single sink, toilet and bath/shower combo.

I am no stranger to working concrete, electrical and framing, but what brands to use in a lift station and such are foreign. In my old house I had cut a 6-8 inch trough all the way around the interior base of the house to install drain tile and a sump pump pit. Turned out well. I assume it is right in line with the same concept.

Any recommendations on brand to use for a lift motor, sewage basin, valves, ect? I see Menards has their 11% sale going on, anything they have worth a shit?

 

[Kurtr]

I will look when i go home what brand i got

 

[f7_2003_97x]

I have 2 on my house. I put menards barracuda (i think is what the are) pumps in. They are a sludge pump. Ive had one in for about 3 years and havent touched it. The other one I had to replace after about 1.5 yrs. The impeller spun off for some reason. Then on the replacement pump, I had to replace float a month ago. But this pump runs everything that comes out of the entire house, pumps uphill to drain field. Hope this helps

 

[eyexer]

had one in my last house. It was the menards sewer pit and a coleman lift pump. Had the house for ten years and never touched it.

 

[Retired Educator]

You are correct in the the principal of a pump pit for drain tile is similar to a sewage lift station. The ones I've seen were installed by plumbers but it's a sewer line to the pit like any other sewer line. Then the lift station pumps it up (lifts) to the main sewer line and from there it drains out to the city sewer or your sewer or drain field.

Really fairly simple concept if you remember that s__t runs downhill. The only real problem could be if electricity goes out and someone forgets that that level of sewer in your house cannot be used until the power comes back on. And of course, the lift station is more than just a water pump that is used for a drain field. A lift station has to pump some solids.

I wouldn't worry about putting one in a house I owned as they have simplified sewer lines in houses where the sewer is not as deep as a basement level. Has to be thousands of them in ND and you rarely hear about a problem.

 

[eyexer]

just remember the pit has to be vented also. venting it in a finished house could be a problem.

 

[Yoby]

so here is something my wife brought up that I couldn't answer her. She is dreading this project, but wants the bathroom down there. When I did the drain tile there was concrete dust everywhere from cutting to pouring new. Researching more tonight, we saw a pump that connects to a rear discharge toilet. Never have heard of anyone using them. No concrete work, still need the electrical there so no change there. Seems weird the discharge line is a 3/4".

http://www.menards.com/main/bath/to...4441835507-c-9936.htm?tid=2467586259003279435

 

[deleted member]

A poop vacuum, blender and pump. Cool.