How often should I test my sump pump?

Pour a bucket of water into the pit and watch it pump out and shut off — do this before every spring and before any forecast that worries you. It takes two minutes and tells you everything.

Do I need a battery backup pump?

If your basement is finished or holds anything valuable, and especially if your neighborhood loses power in storms, a battery backup is cheap insurance. Storms that flood basements are exactly the storms that take out power.

Can a sump pump be repaired, or should it be replaced?

Float switches and stuck impellers are often repairable. An aging motor that's gotten noisy or intermittent is telling you it's near the end — replacing it on your schedule beats replacing it during a storm.

Sump Pump Repair & Installation Rochester NY

The details, in plain language

A sump pump sits quietly in a pit until the one night you need it — a heavy spring rain, a rapid thaw, a power flicker. When it fails then, the result is a wet basement and a wet everything upstairs from it. The time to find out a pump is failing is during a service call, not a storm.

We repair and replace sump pumps, service discharge lines and check valves, adjust float switches, and install battery backup pumps so the system keeps working through the outages that so often come with the storms.

What we handle

Pump diagnosis and repair
Floats, switches, and motors — repaired when repairable.
Pump replacement
Properly sized pumps set in a clean basin.
Battery backup installation
Pumps that keep working when the power doesn't.
Discharge line service
Check valves and discharge lines kept clear and functional.
System testing
Every pump tested under real conditions before we leave.