So I woke up today and walked into the kitchen and stepped into a flood.  My sink over flowed.  How you ask?  Well it started 2 weeks ago.  My basement has no plumbing under the floor.  My main drain is about halfway up the wall.  So instead of getting a separate sump container or utility pump for the utility tub and washing machine the previous owner just dumped everything into the sump well, then attacted the sump to the kitchen sink drain. 

Well my sump pump finally died after who know's how many years.  So I buy a new one, 1/2 Hp, the old one was a third.  And the old one was a pedistal.  This one is some floaty switch that seems to get stuck all the time.  Anyway more power pump = more water pumped up the drain into the sink.  This happened before too. 

So a few days ago I notice my floor is all wet in front of the sink and Ifigure it has something to do with the new sump.  Either the old pipes and connections can't deal with the new force of the sump or the sink is overflowing.  Turns out its the latter.  Some how that switch gets stuck against the wall or the hose and stays down, not turning on the sump pump.  The well fills up, either from the washng machine or the drain tiles around my house.  The unsticks and all that water is pumped into the sink, which is too small to hold everything, you know what happens next. 

So why don't I fix the plumbing correctly?  Because the damned utility pump is $150 last I checked.  I've thought about putting a check valve so the water can't go into the sink.  Easy....maybe.  My house is old, like 50+ years.  I have a cast iron sink drain pipe.  It's rusting, bad.  A few years ago it sprung a leak but the rubber gasket connecting it to the PVC.  I needed to fix it fast.  So with the plumbers putty I used to attach coral to rock I plugged it.  It worked, going on 3 years now.  I'm afraid to touch it.  And I'm lazy.  My luck I'll have to rip out all the cast iron and put in PVC.  Soooo houses suck.