A basement pump earns its keep during the worst inflow, not during a quiet bucket test with the discharge wide open. The phrase “a sump pump for muddy water” is therefore easy to misread if the buyer starts with an open-flow number instead of delivered flow at the discharge head. This is a groundwater basin, […]

The consequence of a wrong choice is different in every pump category. A drain pump can stop above the desired waterline, a jet pump can lose prime, a booster can starve at its inlet, and an aerator can lose air at depth. When buyers need a sump pump for a washing machine, the pumping head, […]