What is a sump pump? It’s a device with one goal in life: to keep your basement or crawl space from flooding, coming to your rescue when your home is in hot water—or any water, in fact.

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 ...

Sump pumps are essential appliances for the home that can keep basements and crawlspaces dry by diverting ground water away from the home so that it can drain safely without damaging the home’s ...

Anyway, the focus here is on basement flooding due to sump pump failure and prevention by pro-actively installing a backup sump pump. Here are 11 of the most common causes of sump pump failure ...

Q. My sump pump will pump for three days after it stops raining. It will pump about every 20 minutes. My neighbors’ pumps do not. Where is this water coming from? How can I find out? Paul ...