With forecasts predicting storms headed into Iowa, homeowners with flood-prone properties will want to make sure their sump ...

In the Northeast, where I live, many houses have basements and rely on sump pumps to keep the basement dry. The basement sump pump’s job is to pump ground water from a sump pit that extends below the ...

We have been having some awful storms recently and lots of people around us have been losing power. My neighborhood has been good as all our power lines are buried except for a larger (array???) or ...

An emergency sump pump is a back-up sump pump for emergency use during pump failure or power failure for homes with or without a full perimeter drainage system, A.K.A. French Drains. If you have a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inspect your sump pump annually to ensure it works and to prevent basement flooding and water damage. Sump pump damage can happen ...

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Q: I hope you can help me decide on a good backup power system for my basement sump pumps. We recently invested a lot of money to finish out our basement, and it’s beautiful. We would be devastated ...

Iowa homes face basement floods as expert warns slow sump pump is 'on the way to failure' ...

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