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Old 09-13-2011, 04:19 AM   #11
Peter B
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City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
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RE: scum in the shower sump sticking the float switch

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DavidM wrote:
This just seems like a routine maintenance chore. Pull up the floor board, unscrew the cover to the shower sump and pull out the hair and scum that fouls the switch. Takes maybe 5 minutes. All of the chemical treatments mentioned aren't going to do anything about the hair which is the real problem.

David
*Or...you could resort to the recognised cure for this problem, (if you use the shower sump system), and that is replace the sump pump with a manually switched Gulper pump, which will not be blocked with hair, or anything else.

http://www.whalepumps.com/drainage_s...re/manual/119/
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