Does home have leaky basement after rains?
Kimberlee, Having a sump pit and pump does not automatically mean water in the basement. In many homes there were water problems in the distant past and systems were put in to alleviate the problems (french drains, fixing gutters and landscaping on the outside to route water away from the house, fixing cracks, etc) and the homes haven’t leaked for years, but the pits and pumps are still there. In 93 with the big floods that we had (500 year floods), homes leaked that hadn’t leaked in the past, but levies were also changed which changed the water flow and people haven’t had issues since in some areas because of changes that the municipalities did, with out the need to put in sump pits, but some went on and did so anyway as insurance against a future flood of that type. After the 93 floods, many builders put in sump pits just “because”. It became an expected norm and in many cases was required by local zoning codes. At the same time homeowners put in pits if they were finishing off or re
