Usually not. A waterproofing or drainage contractor does this work, because the pit and the drain that feeds it are drainage. You need an electrician for the circuit. A plumber is the right call only when the discharge has to join a pipe a plumber owns.

What a pump here is actually pumping

The shallowest mapped seasonal water table under Clinton sits 33.1 inches down and the ground moves water away at up to 13 inches an hour. A pump on this ground is an occasional-duty machine, and the failure it has is not wear — it is a discharge that stops too close to the house and returns the same water to the pit. Walk the line outside before you call anyone. That check is free and it is the one most often skipped.

The reasoning behind that

The pit and the drain around it are digging work. The firm that puts in interior drains puts in the sump that serves them. They are one system, so one trade builds it.

The wiring is a licensed electrician’s job in most places. A sump pump wants its own circuit. A pump that shares a circuit is a pump that stops when the other thing on it trips a breaker.

A plumber comes in where the discharge meets fixed pipe. In many places a sump may not join a sewer at all. Where the rules allow it, that join is plumbing. Where they do not, the discharge is a buried line to a surface outlet, and that is drainage work again.

Whoever does it, the line has to end far enough from the house that the water does not come back. That is the detail most often got wrong.

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