While Patty and I was TRYING to keep the water off the floor (when we opened up the wall we were able to put the Vac hose in the hole and get the water down below floor level).

Anyway we dumped I don't know how many vac full of water and he got back and started to hook up the sump pump and it was NOT an automatic shutoff! He was not happy and said he wasn't going to go back to town (about 15 miles away for the third time)!