I have a few questions about my sump pump setup. My pump went out last night. I took it apart to inspect the pump. Noticed the motor blew out causing the casing to blow out the side. Exposing the internal components. Since I'm new to this form stuff. I trying to figure out pictures to better explain my questions. So I have an old pump system which I can tell due to the teal fiberglass basin. Plus the poor application of pipes and total setup. So the basin has three pipes that run into it. One pipe is just a random floor drain pipe in the middle of the basement floor. The other is another floor drain pipe that sits under my utility tub and is connected to the washing machine. Then the last pipe is pvc which looks like it's for the outside drain tile. The two floor drain pipes are about 3 inches above the pvc pipe for the outside drainage. But with the pump in the pump don't kick on till its right under the two floor pipe drains. Leaving the pvc pipe submerged. Also when the pvc pipe was installed it looks like someone took a hammer to make a hole. Letting water go behind the basin. Questions Can the pvc pipe be submerged under water? Should gases be coming out of the pvc pipe when not submerged? Is it a tempature thing? I only see fumes when I point a flashlight on it. Could water going behind the basin cause my concrete basement to soften up and start to crumble? Which seems like it is. Should there always be two feet of water in there consistently.? Whoever put the basin in put a cinder block at the bottom. I know it could be for the washing machine and debris to not enter the sump pump. Please help!!! Thanks

Short story, bought a home from a duct tape job family. Love the land it's on, so my wife had to have it, but - we have been renovating for years now fixing their crap jobs. Also, sellers lied about half the stuff in the house (as they duct taped things per se to get the house sold) so we won a small suit against them to fix things. One of those things is the well tank. They mentioned that the water would stop working occasionally when it would rain as the storm drain where the well tank and pressure switch was located would fill up. Yes, submerging the pressure tank and the ELECTRICAL pressure SWITCH. Hazard right. Anyways...they said "oh ya just go down there with rubber boots and gloves and hit it with a rubber mallet and that will fix it"... yeah.. anyways... The storm shelter since filled up during a flood and capsized the tank, twisting and breaking the pvc pipe coming in through the concrete from the well pump (comes in horizontally). I fixed that after some jack hammering. I moved the tank up and out of the storm shelter into the garage. This was about a 7 foot up and 7 foot over move from it's original location. Ran with the same schedule 40 pvc that was there before, just a few more bends and a good 4 foot vertical run. My water works, it works fine....the pressure switch has been short cycling though. Mostly when running the water but sometimes when the water is off. This all started after the flood and me moving the tank to it's new location. The pressure in the tank is creeping up on its own too. I noticed, but it wont hold any air that I pump into it when it is empty.. I found this out by doing some reading. So, I drained the tank of all water after cutting the pump off. Checked the pressure at the tank and I have 0 pressure. At the switch it reads 30psi on a 40/60 switch. I tried to charge the tank but it wont hold any air what so ever. I turn the pump back on and the tank shoots back up to 50+ psi and my water works just fine. Still, with short cycling. It's about a cycle like ON/OFF, ON/OFF,ON/OFF,ON/OFF in a good 5 seconds IF that. I know it's wearing the hell out of my pump among my electricity bill. I do also have a culligan gold series heavy duty whole house conditioner/softener too. I'm half tempted to throw in the towel, call a plumber and replace everything. The tank is god old well x tron and is rusted to all hell as I am sure it has been under water PLENTY of times. The switch too has some serious rust on it included the pressure gauge which looks like a fossil from all the rust. Not sure what type of pump I have or where it is located, all I know is the pipe for it comes in underground horizontally. I can provide pics of the setup if that will help. I've been known to paypal folks beer money who have helped me figure other things out on here, this isn't a bribe - I just am a amateur who needs advice, and people who truly help deserve to be paid for their time.