Protect your home by preventing basement flooding with a sump pump. A home’s foundation, walls, and roof should be ...

Sump pumps are also used to remove sewage or ... Sumps pumps move accumulated water in a basin or pit and then push it outside or to a drainage area outdoors. The pit or tank is located below ...

A sump pump remedies both situations ... A plumbing pipe attached to the pump’s outlet directs water outside to a suitable drainage location. That may be a natural runoff point, a dry well ...

As we near winter’s end, almost 25 inches of snow have accumulated in the Denver area and even more in our mountain communities. The more snow we get the better the ski season, but the spring thaw can ...

More recently in the Midwestern area of the United States, water pumps have been used to drain the soils that surround ... We started to “damp-proof” the exterior walls by applying tar to ...

You might also want to consider cleaning underneath the steps, the drain outside and the sump-pump tank. Or you can call a drain-cleaning service and ask to have your drains cleaned. If none of ...

They would run a PVC pipe from the sump-pump drainage exit point ... not have anything I can disconnect on the pipe once it gets outside. I have since read it’s crucial to disconnect the ...

To address the noisy check valve, consider rerouting the discharge pipe directly to the outside ... In order for the pump to work properly, water must freely drain into the sump.