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 ...

we are looking at putting a submerged sump pump into the basement and wonder what type of grate do people use over the top. Obviously it has to have holes big enough to allow the water etc through and ...

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 ...

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 ...

EVANS, Colo. (CBS4)- Body-worn camera video captured a member of the Evans Police Department as she rescued a dog trapped underneath a mobile home crawl space in the Cave Creek neighborhood. The dog ...

Water seeping into a basement or crawl space erodes masonry on its way through, then fosters mold, bad odors and wood rot. To stop it, the first line of defense is a combination waterproofing and ...

SECURITY, Colo. (CBS4)- A toddler is recovering after he fell 15 feet down a sump pump hole. Quick-thinking firefighters are credited with his rescue and minor injuries. The 2-year-old fell into the ...

We are currently working on a renovation project at a house that has basement flooding issues. Given the spring rains and the already melted snow from the winter, the water tables in many areas are ...

The problem of moving standing water from one place to another has preoccupied engineers for thousands of years. Historians report that even Archimedes worked on the problem. Fortunately for modern ...

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