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Thread: Sump Pit Construction
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27th June 2010, 11:00 PM #1
Sump Pit Construction
Hi Guys
Please tell me if I'm making a big mistake.
I am building a sump pit for my stormwater collection. The stormwater drains from an extension I am building will run into the pit and then the water will be pumped up into a 25,000 litre rainwater tank.
To construct the pit I was first of all going to buy a pre-cast concrete pit 600x600x1200mm. However with the recent winter rainfall, my ground is now pretty boggy and I cant get a lorry in to lift a precast pit into an excavated hole. The precast pit weighs about a ton and I have no other way to handle it. So I got to thinking ....
I have about a thousand old bricks onsite and so I thought I should just brick up the pit instead with second hand bricks. This seems like the ideal solution to me. I get to dispose of some of these bricks and save myself about $400 in the process.
It seems like a good idea, but is there any good reason why this would be a bad mistake.
Thanks
Mike
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