Tips to Prevent Basement Flooding

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Water Powered Sump Pump

Every Spring and Summer, thunder storms bring a terrible combination of power outages and heavy rainfall. Basements become flooded and cause damage to belongings and can cause mold infestation. Typically, a back up sump pump keeps a basement from flooding if the primary pump fails. But if a thunderstorm knocks the electricity out, the back up sump pump will not work.

So, how do you pump the basement out when the power is out? The solution is the Water Powered Sump Pump. The Water Powered Sump Pump is powered by pressure from the city water supply. As the city water flows through the pump, it creates a vacuum inside an attached tube that extends down to the base of the sump pump pit, thus creating a siphon. The vacuum in the tube pulls ground water from the sump pump pit in the basement up the tube, through the pump and out into the drainage pipe along with the city water. Water powered sump pumps have the following advantages:

No electricity is required
No moving parts in the pump
Will run indefinitely as long as there is city water pressure
Pump more water out than they use
Run silently
Only run when needed