Flooded basement

[wolc123]

2 hours ago, Nomad said:

Well mine has run through a few “ wide spread “ outages for days ,  in addition to an 11 day outage where my pressure reminded  fine  . I’ve responded to hundreds of water problems ,ie flooded basements and my plumber friend recommends  the Liberty brand one and has installed countless ones over the years  with no issues . I’m pretty confident I’m familiar with what works and doesn’t . lol 

oh and I’d never have a garage sale 

 

You got lucky, if you depended on it during that “October storm” that I mentioned.  I was down in Charleston SC for work when that one hit.  It hit much harder, west of Rochester, closing the Buffalo airport and knocking out the power to the Erie county water pumping station.  
 

I changed my return flight to Rochester, and had been up for about 24 hours straight, when I rolled into our driveway in a car that I rented there. I would have been up another hour, had I drove over to my dads house to get his generator (he never lost power), but I depended on my water backup and hit the sack.
 

When I woke up, about 8 hours later, the water was 4 ft deep in the basement, flooding and extinguishing two furnaces, the hot water heater, and our freezer (lost some fish but thankfully not much venison).   Fortunately, everything worked when it dried out and I plugged it back in.  I had a bunch of ammo under water.  I checked one round from each box and they all fired.  
 

I had a similar issue, but a lot less flooding, with a battery backup pump.  It just didn’t have the capacity to keep up, but that was before I reran the discharge line from our sump.  Now, the average pump cycle time is way less than it was, during heavy rains.  
 

You will never convince me to get another water or battery backup sump pump.  Frequent basement checks, a backup AC pump, a generator full of gas, and a clear sump discharge line, have permanently corrected most of my basement flooding issues.  

Edited March 26, 2022 by wolc123