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Here’s another edition of everyone’s favorite semi-recurring content feature: Inspector Pumphead’s Quick Tips!

In this space, I, Inspector Pumphead from Pump Products, will be sending out friendly reminders and dispensing basic tips for ordering, maintaining and servicing pumps. The Inspector is in and here to help!

Tip: Check your discharge outlet before buying a new pump.

Recently, a friend of mine had to replace his sump pump. He noticed that the pump was not evacuating water out of the basin at the same rate as it previously did – and the sump pump was over five years old at the time, so it was no big deal to get a new one. Unfortunately, once he installed the new pump, he found that the new pump wasn’t moving any more water than the previous pump did.

“Inspector this pump is defective!”, my friend said. So he bought another brand new pump – and the same exact thing happened! The problem was actually with his pipes. The discharge line was clogged with dirt and sediment. My friend will keep one of the pumps as a backup, but he still spent money that he didn’t need to spend. The moral of this story is that sometimes the problem isn’t with your pump, it’s with something else in your system. Be sure to examine all aspects of your system before making major changes!

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