Acreage with no storm drainage. The pump has room to send water somewhere it will stay.
On a Kathleen property there is no storm system, so all the water that lands has to leave through the ground. A good share of it passes through the soil right around the house, and where the crawl space is the low point it collects there.
The advantage out here is space. On a small lot the hardest part of a sump install is finding somewhere for the discharge to go that is far enough away. On acreage we can run the line as far as it needs to go, which makes the whole system work better and the pump cycle less.
We set a basin at the low point of the crawl space, run drainage lines to feed it, size the pump for the volume, and take the discharge well out onto the property. Where there is enough fall we look at whether a gravity drain can do part of the work, since a line that needs no power is one less thing to maintain.
The scope is fixed before we start on a Kathleen home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.

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