# Sump Pump replacement questions/options

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sump-pump-replacement-questions-options/586981
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 27, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sump-pump-replacement-questions-options/586981 "2011-06-27T03:02:06Z")
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### Author: ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sump-pump-replacement-questions-options/586981/9 "2011-06-27T17:10:56Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> !! I wouldn’t do that. I did read a lot about pumps when I was propositioned with this non-Zoeller brand and I did not hear anything good about your run-of-the-mill retail pumps.

For the record, here’s what you said in an earlier thread

> [@Recommend a sump pump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-sump-pump/437802/5):
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> I was told by two different plumbers at two different times that [Zoeller](http://www.zoeller.com/) was THE brand for sump pumps.
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> They also told me that the ones you buy at the “big box store” are pretty worthless (you shouldn’t be replacing them every couple of years).

You had TWO plumbers tell you not to go anywhere near a big box store and you ended up having to replace the pump a year later anyways (of course it could have been a fluke). I have to wonder if part of the reason for that is that to get a Zoeller pump you have to go to an actual plumbing store (or a place like Grainger) which most non-plumbers don’t frequent and probably don’t even realize exist.

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