A sump pump is an incredibly useful item to have in your basement: Unsophisticated but essential. It’s basically motorized pump in a bucket, buried below the floor of your basement or crawlspace; as ...

When heavy seasonal rains start pooling around your house, the last thing you want is to be humming Johnny Cash’s “Five Feet High and Rising” as water creeps up in your basement. But that may be the ...

The problem of moving standing water from one place to another has preoccupied engineers for thousands of years. Historians report that even Archimedes worked on the problem. Fortunately for modern ...

Our basement has only flooded twice in 15 years. Would it be wise--or a waste of money--to install a sump pump? This is a matter of personal preference, and depends on the cost of installing the sump ...