Sump pumps are pumps placed at the lowest level of your house’s basement or crawl space. The pump keeps your home’s basement dry by draining the ground water away from your house without damaging the foundation.
Sump pumps are extremely beneficial as they prevent flooding in your basement by controlling the underground water. When the water reaches a certain level in the pump the float is activated, and the pump turns on and removes water.
Moisture Buildup
Moisture can enter the basement causing mold or mildew. The mold and mildew build up can bring about health complications such as, nasal stuffiness, throat irritation, coughing, wheezing, eye irritation, skin irritation and lung infections.
Decrease Property Value
If you’re selling your home sump pumps are more attractive increasing the property. Not having one can also decrease the value of a property. Without sump pumps your home will be less attractive to potential buyers.
Flood Risk
Most standard home insurance does not cover flood damage.
We are able to install battery powered systems to back up sump pump system. During normal conditions your sump pump would empty water outside of the house, but if you ever lost power, the back up battery would keep your system running and pump water outside of the house before the basement floods! You never need to worry about losing power or your sump pump failing again. This system has been an incredibly helpful tool for many of our clients and we would love to install one for you too.
This pump has a local battery to power it should it lose the main source of electricity. It is a simple and ingenious system that has saved hundreds of houses from water damage.
If this is something you are interested in, we would love to have one of our plumping experts come out, assess your sump pump, and give you a few options to install this product. You can send an email to us if this is something you are interested, or of course, give us a phone call!