Hello everyone,
In the basement of our multi-family house, we have a lifting station for the wastewater from the washing machines.
The pump of the lifting station is plugged into a standard electrical outlet located at the height of a utility sink.
Apparently, some time ago someone unplugged the pump to use the outlet for another purpose without anyone noticing. Because the water was not pumped out, a major water damage occurred, which only became apparent later, as water seeped unnoticed for days or weeks through the masonry into the entire basement floor.
Considering all the regulations in the construction sector, I find it hard to believe that such an installation is permissible, where a pump is simply plugged into a standard socket and there is no protection or warning system in case of unplugging or malfunction.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any information on this. Can you help me?
In the basement of our multi-family house, we have a lifting station for the wastewater from the washing machines.
The pump of the lifting station is plugged into a standard electrical outlet located at the height of a utility sink.
Apparently, some time ago someone unplugged the pump to use the outlet for another purpose without anyone noticing. Because the water was not pumped out, a major water damage occurred, which only became apparent later, as water seeped unnoticed for days or weeks through the masonry into the entire basement floor.
Considering all the regulations in the construction sector, I find it hard to believe that such an installation is permissible, where a pump is simply plugged into a standard socket and there is no protection or warning system in case of unplugging or malfunction.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any information on this. Can you help me?
MayrCh schrieb:
Are you sure there was no defect in the system? The flushing water from the system always flows out through the drain since it is wastewater. Even if the brine tank is being filled and the diaphragm valve stops due to a power outage: the brine tank also has an overflow to the wastewater connection.
And how does it work without electricity?
It all sounds a bit strange... And where does the drain lead?
For us, it goes into a lifting station, but that also only works with electricity.
So the system flushes, but the lifting station does not pump out, and without power, the Judo softener cannot stop the flushing cycle...
We have now installed something that detects if there is an abnormally high water consumption in the house and also senses if there is water on the basement floor, then it mechanically shuts off the water supply.
But don’t ask me exactly what kind of device that is—it was about five years ago... and I remember that the next higher model of Judo already had this function integrated.
Maybe this would be a solution for the original poster, to install such a monitoring device.
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