Cleared a clogged pump line in under ten minutes with a garden hose trick

We were working on the Deschutes River project and the main suction line kept getting packed with fine silt. Tried the usual rodding and backflushing for nearly an hour with no luck. My foreman, Jim, suggested hooking a standard garden hose up to the clean-out port and running full pressure for a few minutes to stir everything up from the inside. It broke the clog loose almost instantly and we were back to full flow. Has anyone else tried something this simple on a silt-heavy job?

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robert_jenkins8221d ago

Honestly, my buddy had the same issue with a sump pump in his flooded basement. He was about to call a pro when he tried that exact hose trick. Tbh, it saved him a few hundred bucks and a huge headache.

tara_patel21d ago

My cousin in Milwaukee had a flooded crawl space last spring. He used a garden hose to siphon most of it out before the plumber even showed up. In my experience, those old-school tricks work way more often than people expect. It bought him time to find a good deal on a proper pump. He said it was the difference between a major disaster and just a really bad weekend.

river_allen21d ago

We used a wet vac and a long hose... got most of the water out before the rain even stopped.