Anna1111 wrote:
Sump pumps aren't horribly expensive - and installation isn't impossible - with the pipes in place, I've done it myself with guidance from my disabled Mother. You can also take a hose out a basement window.
If the hose is to drain the pump, that's what we do with the shop vac. We have a drain in the middle of the garage floor that we put the hose in that is connected to the shop vac. We DO have to manually switch this one to drain which means we have to listen for the pitch to change.