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 ...

If a sump pump fails, you can end up with water damage in your basement or crawl space. Test your sump pump before the next ...

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 ...

THIS is for all the families on the Connecticut shore who have spent the last month pumping water out of their basements and who now have waterfront property. It was a morning in March and I had to ...

So, I have a basement with my house, and I want to get a battery-powered backup sump pump to minimalize my chances of having my basement flood. I actually went out and already purchased the backup ...

Basements were once dark, dirt-floored places where canned goods were stored. Today, basements are being completely finished and converted into living space. The challenge with most basements is ...

WILD WEATHER typically drags mechanical contractors out to face unprecedented dangers: subzero temperatures that invite frostbite; bone-chilling, rain-soaked emergency calls; and torrential downpours ...

CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS are a funny thing — sometimes. A recent submersible sump pump installation triggered a series of angry phone calls. The relief hole we'd drilled in the discharge pipe — just above ...