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Sump Pump Repair

If the pit is filling and the pump isn't moving water, kill the breaker to it and call, because a motor fighting a jammed impeller can fail outright.

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What a pro does

Around here the pump is usually sitting in a crawlspace rather than a basement, which changes both the failure modes and the access. The plumber gets under the house, checks whether the float can actually swing free, and tests the switch separately from the motor, since a pump that hums without pumping is telling a different story from one that won't start at all. Then he follows the discharge line all the way out. That's where a surprising number of these calls end, with a line that's crushed, disconnected under the crawlspace, or running uphill to a spot that floods anyway during the same storm that filled the pit. Alabama rain comes hard and fast, several inches in an afternoon, so a pump sized for ordinary seepage gets overrun. He'll look at whether the pit is deep enough, whether the check valve is holding, and whether the grading and gutter runoff outside are feeding the problem in the first place. Fixing water that shouldn't be arriving usually beats fixing the pump that's tired of moving it.

Frequently asked questions

Plenty do. A pier-and-beam crawlspace on a low or flat lot takes on water during heavy rain, and standing water under a house in this humidity turns into a moisture problem in the framing. A pump in a crawlspace pit is a common answer to that.
Either more water is arriving than the pump can move, or it's moving water that comes right back. A failed check valve lets the discharge line drain back into the pit on every cycle, so the pump keeps lifting the same water. That's checked early because it's easy to confirm.
Nothing pumps. That's the weak point of any pump on house current, and it matters most exactly when the weather is bad enough to knock out power. Battery backup units exist for that reason and are worth asking about if you've been caught before.
It depends much more on how often it runs than on the calendar. A pump that cycles hard through every wet stretch wears out well ahead of one that runs a few times a year. Testing it before the season it'll be needed is better than finding out during.

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