hi I'm Shannon from host improvements comm and in our video today I want to show you how to install this submersible sump pump in our in our new sump pit that we just installed in a previous video so if you haven't seen the installation of the pit you might want to check that video I'm just taking the lid off to get it out of the way basically what we've got is a is a dual pump system so the main pump that you see here is a 120 volt submersible pump I forget what it is 10 gallons an hour a minute I'm not even sure they're very a little bit so it doesn't really matter on the size so that's the the 120 volt and then right here we've got a 12-volt backup so if the power goes down this one automatically just takes over and kicks in and runs off a 12 volt battery so there's different combinations this happens to be all one unit purchased exactly like you see it everything you see right here is what was in the box so it's it's fairly user-friendly and pretty quick to set up so and actually it was fairly inexpensive as well so the main main components of this we've already talked about the pumps but over on this side we've got all the electrical requirements for the 120 volts so it just simply plugs right into the wall this here is basically a switch attached to the to the float right here for the main pump so once the float indicates it needs to turn the pump on the switch activates power and it turns them with the 120 volt pump on on this side all this wiring here is to do with the 12 volt so we've got a couple leads here that are going to hook to the battery really simple this is just kind of the information center and the charging system because this particular one does trickle charge your battery as well this wire is just the electrical hook-up from the pump to this system so really simple both pumps each have their own built in check valve so here's a check valve here check valve over here what that does is when the pump turns on pumps water out that check valve is a one-way so when the pump turns off and the water wants that's in this vertical piece of pipe wants to come back down at can't it stopped at the check valve so okay so I think I showed the floats they're both here this is the for the 120 volt and this little guy over here is for the 12 volt system so everything's right here it's all in one package nice and neat a lot of wires but we can deal with all that once we have it out of the way we're doing a bit of a temporary setup here because there's going to be some changes down the road but we're going to set it completely up so you can see you know how it's going to work basically in the hole our pits about two feet deep there's already water in it we've got some blocks sitting in the bottom just to set the pump on so that it's up off the bottom a little bit and it isn't sucking in any sand or gravel that might be down in there so I can simply lower this pump in there get it sitting on my blocks get it sitting about where I think I want it I'm just going to get my electrical stuff out of the way so we've got it sitting down there in the hole our lid has a has a slotted hole in it for all the plumbing and wiring to come up out of so that it has easy access and then once the lids on you know it's it's fairly safe kids aren't going to fall in it or whatever pets okay so again pretty simple setup I've already prepped up the plumbing so basically just is going to fit into there and over into there and then we'll adjust the pump so everything reaches nicely this is just a rubber connection so it kind of helps to make a quick disconnect if you need to but it also probably works a little bit good as an isolation setup so any vibration from the pump isn't transferring through all the plumbing as well so so I can see that this needs to slide over there just a little bit more and then we should be fine I'll maybe glue that fitting first and then I'll tighten these rubber clamps over here or these steel clamps on the rubber fitting there so actually before I do that should just talk a little bit about the couple different ways that you could drain it our system we're allowed here to pump this this pit right into the city sewer system some municipalities won't allow that so your pipe may have to come up and out and actually out the wall of the house and drain to the exterior of the home if you got that type of setup ideally you want a fair bit of pipe on the outside so the water is running away from the house quite a ways and not just going right back down to the outside of your basement into the weeping tile and back to the pit you're just recirculating so you want to get it out in a way like I said here we're we're going right into the into the public sewer system no that's a bit wet I should dry that out actually I don't have a ragging on me I've got some paper towel over here I'll just grab quick we had an old pump set up here temporarily overnight and just got a bit of residual water in that line just dry that out put some glue all the way around here stick the two together okay now there there is some strapping and stuff here on the wall to help support this pipe so that the wheat isn't just sitting solely on the pump or you don't put a block of wood under there or something to hold it up so I can tighten up these clamps for our connections okay just like that just blew out of the way so we don't have our our permanent electrical supply great clothes in handy here it said there's a bit of another renovation going on here as well so I'm just going to temporarily run this off of a extension cord so so this end I'm just going to simply plug into the cord which actually I've got here there is a little transformer here this needs to be plugged into 110 as well and then plugs into that yellow box that runs the 12 volt and this is the charging sorry the the charging apparatus for that right now today I don't have that quite ready to go yet but we will run another power bar over here just to plug that in so once you get the pump in the hole your plumbing hook together they send you a fair bit of cable here and some zip ties as well some plastic ties so we can kind of get all the electrical around the pipe here and fasten to the pipe pulled it up out of the hole just going to do that here now I get older cables make sure nothing's twisted up or kinked or anything like that just kind of bring everything up here neatly we'll put one cable tie down here just to hold things up I won't get too carried away with this I'm going to strap a couple pieces up out of the way okay so we've got that hooked up there we can actually I won't hook up to 120 just right away but what I will do is look of the battery system this this here comes also with some pieces on the back so you could zip tie it you know attach to this pipe or whatever but there's not a lot of cable on this between the yellow box and the battery connection so you need to make sure you're at least close enough to to get the connection of the battery so we've got in this case we've got a deep cycle battery it's fully charged make sure it's fully charged before you set this all up so that your trickle charger has a decent decent chance to get started with it now that audible you've probably heard that that's the sound you'll hear if the battery goes low enough this gives off a warning to let you know that it's it's actually depleted it's charged or it's no good or whatever the case may be there's a few indicators here with lights kind of gives you a visual you know everyday as you walk by or whatever just make sure that everything is working properly you can actually turn the alarm off so actually that's on there's a test button there okay so we've got that now this particular system they do have a battery backup system that you can buy or sorry the battery setup that you can buy specifically made for them and they've got a probe that would normally go you know in one of the battery cells and it sets off an alarm if the battery fluid gets too low so that you know you need to maintain your battery now when you're using anything but their recommended battery you're told to cut this lead off and actually connect it to the positive cable as well otherwise the alarm will be going off all the time so we've got that this cable has the mean connection down to the pump from that system so now before we have the 110 volt plugged in by rights I should be able to manually hit the float right now and activate the 12 volt pump now it's not going to pump water because it's actually not in the water but I'll just check it here manually I think you can probably hear that running and I can't get it off because it's not getting a crime okay so when that you know I'm just testing to make sure that pump and everything is working I just left that unplugged here for right now right back here is the charging port for that other cable but yours your system could be a little different but okay so we've checked that that float that seems to be okay it's kicking the pump in now I can plug in the 120 and again like I said I'm just using this cord for right now now this one that floats in a bit of a cage so I'm going to see if I can actually get a hold of it to manually check I kicked it on you can hear that there was barely enough water in there to run it but and there it shut off already but if we had more water in there it would actually run for however long I needed to let the float down and it'd be shutting off on its own the one thing I noticed on this one there's no real way to set your like your level of the winner when the float activates the pumps because they're kind of fixed rate to the rate to the pump setup itself so really the only way you can adjust that is by putting less or more blocks or thickness underneath the pump it doesn't really matter really how much water's below your pump it's you're more concerned about the fact that it can't fill up high enough to overflow your actual pit and in our case here our float the water level would wouldn't even come up probably 15 inches from the top here before the float comes on so so that's going to keep it well down there buys a little bit of time you know if the if the pump is having a little trouble keeping up it buys a little bit of time there too so so in our setup here all this basically goes together there's a lid that fits over here that goes on all this like I said Fitz down in the hole keeps kids and pets and that sort of thing from falling down there and you know kind of keeps it all nicely contained so again typically you want to have your electrical requirements right here for this type of setup you'd need at least two two places to plug stuff into this being such a large box and I guess they've got a setup that it would work the other plug would still fit if this is in the bottom so both the only other thing to speak a little bit about is anytime you have a battery you don't want to set it directly on concrete you want it on a block of wood or in this case we've got it in this plastic case here which actually has a lid and everything so if there's any spillage battery overheats bubbles oil over anything it's all contained in there to safely so this is probably the best setup for you is right there I think that's that's about all I can really tell you about this so pretty basic setup especially when it all comes as one unit like that really everything was there except for buying the battery outside of outside of that everything was in the box that this pump was in so so I don't think there's anything else I can tell you like I said before we we installed this sump pit so if you need to do that you might want to check that video out as well this pump is small enough it'll fit in I think up to even like a five-gallon pail if that's all the type of size you've got for diameter for your existing pump sump it this one actually will fit inside of that song which was really common for years and years a lot of people just sunk up metal or a plastic pail in the ground that's what they used so okay so I think that's it so I hope hope this helps your process and installing or doing a similar type thing and good luck with that and we've hopefully given you enough tips to you maybe help you decide what kind of pipe pump that you want we've got all kinds of other information you can check us out on youtube obviously you're there watching this you can check out our website we've got a forum there which is the best place to post any questions you have this or any other project you're doing we've got Twitter we've got Facebook there's all kinds of ways to keep connected with us we've also got a patreon account set up so if you'd like to pledge us on patreon that'd be awesome we just appreciate everybody's support so anyway it's good luck with your project and thanks a lot for watching