Water is always going to be a problem for homeowners, no matter how it makes it into your building, so it is important to keep up the fight. If you have issues with water intrusion in your basement, you might have a sump pump installed to keep it out. A sump pump sits in a trench below the surface of the floor and will activate when the trench starts filling up with water, such as during a heavy rainstorm. It is important to ensure that it operates properly well in advance of bad weather. You should also have a battery backup for the pump since power outages in conjunction with a storm could have bad results otherwise.
To test if the pump works properly, you can pour some water into the trench to make sure it starts up. A common issue is that the float that turns the pump on can get stuck against the wall of the trench when the water dries up, so keep an eye out for that.
Your pump needs to discharge the water far away from your home, and there should be proper grading directing it away from the home so that the pump won’t need to pump the same water back out over and over again.
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