Hey there Michael Church with crawl space ninja dot com And today
I'm going to kinda go over a simple way of how to make sure that your sump pump and your
basin is installed properly in the crawl space.
And uh this is what's called a Jack L.
It's uh actually that's the way they pronounce it J a c k e l, uh
sump pump basin and lid It's fantastic Plastic This is available on our website.
Um but if you notice it's got a three punch outs, um which is which is great You got uh this is
a blank and then you got this for the wire and this is for your one and a half inch PVC uh the
only thing you'll need to add if you feel necessary is you'll need to use a two and a three
quarter inch hole saw and make another hole for the uh dranger drain.
Uh I mentioned this in our unboxing video that I got but uh the sump pump unboxing video.
But what this drain does is as you can see in this picture here this shows you the install of it
Uh if water, you know everybody's concerned about groundwater which is what the sump pump is
designed to do but when you encapsulate the crawl space if you don't have a way for that surface
water that may get on the plastic to go into the sump pump then you're just creating a swimming
pool Okay So what the Dranger drain does is if mount mounts flat into the sump pump basin So
if water and normally the water would come from a flood, copper line bus something like that If
flood water comes on the plastic it gives the access to the sump pump You certainly don't want
to go through all the trouble of creating a dry clean and healthy crawl space and then get a
flood from above and then have a huge swimming pool in your crawl space So that's what the Dranger drain does.
But this guy comes pre made with all the knockouts Alright And then you've got your uh your uh
Jack l Basin Okay As you can see it's pretty deep.
Uh it's perforated all around everywhere except the bottom.
Uh they don't perforate the bottom There's really not a need to do that.
So the sump pump will fit inside there And the only thing I'm not really gonna go over today is
is the uh the gravel or we like to use pea gravel so just get you like six or eight bags of pea
gravel from Home Depot or Lowe's, and you want to fill around this basin about two inches all
the way around the basin full of pea gravel So you dig the hole You put this in you make sure
this is level with the ground, and then you fill all this with pea gravel and that way it's the
aggregate to sift the soil You don't wanna get mud and stuff like that going in the sump pump
basin because it'll mess up the sump pump Okay So let's go ahead and go through And this is uh I
just did an unboxing of this big guy This is our half horsepower cast iron uh flow tech
unit moves about forty eight hundred gallons of water per hour.
Uh you can shoot it ten twelve feet up into the air The higher you go the less effective it
becomes but it's still very very powerful It's got a five year warranty on it I love the cast
iron sump pump This is my opinion It's probably the best pump on the market There's a lot of
great pumps out there but this is the one we exclusively use, uh in our crawl spaces.
So what I'm going to show you here is there's the wiring You'll of course need to have yourself
a uh an outlet in the crawl space So the float switch here is
this and then this is power to the pump So the float switch kicks on and off as needed.
This gives you power to the pump Okay? The lid of the basin gives you uh access for your
electrical So you just take this guy off… You run your electrical through
… And then that way you got… that part
taken care of… Then you'll just plug this in when you're all done.
This actually has some knockouts so you can make this hole bigger if you want so that that'll
put back in I'm not gonna do that for this video but you can see you can actually cut this out a
little larger so that this seals around.
Okay? So that's what this is for This is only designed for one wire so you'd have to make it a
little larger for two… Okay.
And it just cut a little bit bigger hole for the second one.
Alright Then you've got this knockout Now this is for the uh one and a half inch PVC line So you
just take it and you put it through like that.
And you take this off One of the things you don't want to forget when installing sump pump I
mentioned in the Dranger drain I think that's super important I don't know of anybody else in
our area that installs the Dranger drain So if you're uh looking for some help locally here in
Knoxville or Chattanooga Ashville North Carolina London Kentucky or a Cookville Tennessee
then you can call us and we'll give you an estimate on this kind of stuff But, uh anyway, the
check valve is very important So the check valve actually screws
on…You can see right here it goes right here.
I'm just gonna hand tighten it just for the sake of that And then this you would wanna put some
PVC glue…heavy duty PVC glue in here, and then that'll slide right over the check valve
…
There you go.
Then you put this… over to seal it
… Make sure that your sump pump is level inside the
basin Okay So that way it'll work properly Make sure it's in the right spot You can actually
move it around a little bit That's pretty level This is sealed So one of the things about this
knockout is it has the ability so that you can access the uh the unit if you need to Maybe
you're you're concerned that it's even working or not So you can look in there and see if the
base is full of water and there's no water being pumped out You know the the pumps messed up.
Uh the other thing you can do is to test it out If there's not a lot of water in there you can
fill this with a hose and uh flush out the system So it's nice to have this knock out
not being used Just cover it up You don't want… soil and
humidity coming out of the soil gases and humidity coming out So you wanna keep it closed.
Uh the other thing I would suggest you get is this little
uh one and a half inch… gasket.
Alright And the reason why you use this is this gives you a quick disconnect so you got uh your
your sump pump PVC coming up and then you're gonna run your PVC up and out of the crawl space
Okay We always take it up to the ceiling of the crawl space.
So we come up and go to the ceiling We use these little guys to to connect it to the ceiling
because, uh this guy's moving a lot of water So if you don't have it properly secured it could
actually vibrate and different things like that So using these they're also available on our
website as an add on to the sump pump Uh these little uh one and a half inch clamps.
Secure everything Use your PVC nineties and forty fives If you ever have to replace the sump
pump all you gotta do is just loosen this up pull it down move the pipe out of the way You can
pull everything out and you don't have to like sawzall anything.
So that's pretty much it I think oh, uh whenever you go outside uh this is gonna be your
NDS pop up valve And the reason why we like using these is because uh you can bow over
it It's hidden in the grass and all that kind of stuff So you run your discharge line outside
the crawl space go under the soil to protect it from freezing.
And then you're gonna pop up So as the water turns on it pops up this valve as it turns off it
shuts it And that way it also protects mice and stuff If you just have an open PVC pipe which
I've seen our competitors do they just have like this weird PVC z pipe running out.
Uh the other the only other thing you might wanna think about getting if you're in a climate
that's really really cold is you can get a freeze guard, um which helps to keep pipes from freezing.
And uh maybe I can show you a picture of that here Here's what a freeze guard looks like.
And uh this is what it looks like installed So if you're in like up in Ohio or in Michigan or
you know places like that where you got like some serious Boston serious cold weather, uh I
would recommend a freeze guard By the way everything I showed you also applies to basements If
you're looking to do a basement waterproofing job this is a great basin and sump pump for a
basement waterproofing as well but of course we're the crawl space ninjas so that's what we're
gonna talk about So I hope this was informative for you I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to take
you down in a crawl space and put it in but it's kinda hard to do So uh just wanted to go
through the basics of how to install it So make sure you dig a good pit have everything level
put everything inside get you, uh all the materials you need on our DIY store.
And uh my name is Michael Church with crawlspaceninja dot com If you have any questions below or
links to our stores in our comments below please let us know And uh I hope you're making a great
and blessed day and thanks for watching
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