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 ...

Summer storms have made their way across the United States over the past weeks with more on the horizon. For homeowners with below-ground basements, it’s also the perfect time of year to check that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flood sensors remain one of the best small investments into smart home tech you can make. Placing a few cheap gadgets strategically around your home can save you thousands of dollars in water damage ...

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 ...

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After torrential rains on Sunday and Monday, many homeowners in the metro-east were dealing with water-filled basements. Helitech, a metro-east basement water-proofing company, received more than 200 ...