sump Pump Service & Repair

What Do Sumps Pump Do?

Sump pumps remove excess water from around your home’s foundation, protecting your basement from unwanted water ingress to stabilize the soil surrounding your home.

Activated by rising water, sump pumps have a deep-cycle marine battery in conjunction with a trickle-charger. In many cases a 12-volt back-up battery is there for extra protection.

Basements in most homes are below ground. When your yard is dry on top, the soil under and around your basement can be moist or even quite wet. In many homes a basement sump pump is working steadily, maintaining acceptable water levels in your basement.

Tucked away in some corner, the sump pump is below the floor level in a hole known as a sump basin, in which you can expect to see water, which is quite normal.

Repair or Replacement

Sump pumps need to be maintained and should be inspected annually and more frequent in areas with a wet climate (BC’s Lower Mainland) or a high water table. Not having regular maintenance and servicing could invalidate your home insurance.

Sump pump failures typically go unnoticed until a flooded basement bursts onto the scene, but by then you are facing expensive repairs. Maintenance is the best policy for any basement with a sump pump.

Some systems in older White Rock homes pump water into the city’s combined storm-and-sanitary sewers. With the ongoing changeover to separate storm water and sanitary sewers, homeowners are legally obliged to reroute their sump pump discharge away from sanitary sewers or face a fine.

Sump Pump Service

We can re-route older sump systems if needed, install a new pump and set up a maintenance program to ensure safe operation.

With an annual plumbing inspection, we check to see that your homes plumbing components are in top working order. The laundry room, sump pump, toilets and showers, faucets, pipes and drains will either get the green light or repair recommendation if something faulty shows up.