Sump Pump Installation Made Easy If you have water problems in your basement that you've been ignoring, there's a good chance you're losing up to half of your home's living space.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The wet spring might be keeping sump pumps busy. The sound of a sump pump kicking in could be heard in Ken Dunlap’s basement Wednesday morning. The Sioux Falls man ...

Monitoring a sump pump might seem extreme, but as a system that often protects against catastrophic damage, the responsible homeowner strives to take care of it.

Sump pumps are installed at the lowest point of your basement or crawl space. Water accumulating in your basement flows into the sump pit and is pumped, through pipes, back out of your home.

If your sump pump runs REALLY often some times during the year, you can build your own system with those big 3v telecom batteries, industrial charger and 12v marine pumps to get up to 48+ hours ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - With continuous rain on Wednesday, sump pumps across mid-Michigan are working overtime. If your sump pump is working like it should, water should stay away from your basement.

You should test your sump pump on a regular basis. Even if does not run all the time, when you need it the most you want to make sure it is working, especially because we can’t predict what the ...

When your primary pump—or the power—fails, these top-tested models are ready to step inIn CR's lab, we measured the flow rate and battery draw of 11 sump pump backup systems.By Jesse WillWhen ...

Even though my sump pump was still working, I felt it was time to replace it before it went bad. I also wanted to add a battery backup system in case the electricity ever went out.

Unless the sump pump has an external wall wart on the plug (in which case it might be marked 12V) you probably don't want to mess with it. You could buy another sump pump that works on DC (12V).