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 ...

When the skies open and power lines go down, a reliable backup sump pump could be the difference between a dry basement and thousands of dollars in damage (along with a big headache). And because ...

In St. Louis, we don’t have just a nice spring rain; we have hurricane-like downpours. If your sump pump isn’t working or you don’t have one, that can lead to massive flooding and thousands of dollars ...

Q: I hope you can help me decide on a good backup power system for my basement sump pumps. We recently invested a lot of money to finish out our basement, and it’s beautiful. We would be devastated ...

We used sump pump reviews and user experiences to get a feel for which sump pumps were considered the best and why. We then selected several of the top-rated sump pumps on the market for closer ...

Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for other leading online home improvement, DIY, and garden media outlets and online ...

Finding water in your basement can be a real nightmare for homeowners, especially if this exact scene has already happened before and you thought you’d taken all the precautions to prevent water from ...

When the skies open and power lines go down, a reliable backup sump pump could be the difference between a dry basement and thousands of dollars in damage (along with a big headache). And because ...

When your primary pump—or the power—fails, these top-rated models are ready to step in In our lab tests, we measured the flow rate and battery draw of 11 sump pump backup systems. By Jesse Will When ...