Russ Hanscom wrote:Any chance of drilling a hole in the floor and creating an informal drain?
Not without a sump. This state is flat, flat, flat. The water has nowhere to go.
A cunning person would cut a trench in the driveway and run an underground pipe to the nearby storm drain, but I don't think I would like the food in the county lockup.
RE pressure-treated wood, it would not have rotted had I not neglected it, but I still lean toward metal or plastic, because I know myself.
I'm not sure whether the existing wood's treatment was intended to protect against rot from water. Maybe it was just treated to kill bugs.
Today's project, or maybe tomorrow's, is to level the pump. The union above it leaks a few drops, probably because it's not easy to align it while holding the full pump up in the air. Of course, the shed is too small to permit bringing another person to help. He would have nowhere to stand.
I keep thinking about the leveling project. Now I'm thinking I may put stainless bolts down through the eyes in the pump base, with hex nuts above and below. I could adjust the bolts so they pushed on the floor and lifted the pump, and then I could snug down the upper nuts. When the acetal rod I ordered arrives, I can turn some cups to fit over the ends of the bolts and keep them off the damp floor.
There are too many ways to do it, so it's confusing. I was also thinking I might screw a marine plywood board to the pump base and then make standoffs/feet to hold the board off the floor. It would be easier to get at everything.
I can't even imagine what it's like to live in a place where you can call a tradesman on the phone and get stuff like this done correctly. It must be like heaven.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.