Why Your Sump Pump Needs a Battery Back-up - Protecting Your Home During Extreme Weather
In Virginia, residents are no stranger to hurricanes, tropical storms, flooding, and winter weather conditions. These conditions have led many homeowners to protect their homes with drainage and sump pump systems. These systems are designed to keep water out of your basement or crawl space to protect your home’s foundation and keep your belongings safe.
Most homeowners make a significant investment in installing waterproofing systems in their homes to prevent even more costly damage to the home’s foundation and their belongings. What happens when these extreme weather events knock out the power that your sump pump system relies on to protect your home?
Extreme weather accounted for about 80% of all major U.S. power outages from 2000 to 2023. In Virginia, just over 94% of the 88 major power outages over the last 2 decades were related to extreme weather. That’s about 4.5 major power outages per year in the last 20 years making Virginia rank seventh highest in the number of weather-related outages in the nation. Severe weather includes events such as major thunderstorms, winter weather, tropical storms, and hurricanes.
For homes with whole-house generators, you may have utilised your whole-home generator to power your pump, however there are still benefits to keeping your sump pump on a separate battery back-up system. Whole-home generators take some time to kick on and rely on fuel, a battery back-up for your sump pump kicks on instantly and does not require fuel providing you with more comprehensive coverage when protecting your basement or crawl space from flooding.
Our experts always recommend our homeowners add an UltraSump Battery Back-up to their sump pump system. This system kicks in not only when your power goes out, but if your pump fails for any reason, your circuit breaker trips, or your primary pump becomes unplugged.
Why choose the UltraSump 4 over competitors products? Our partners at Contractor Nation compared our UltraSump 4 to the off-the-shelf unit sold by Groundworks Companies (an investment firm that has been buying foundation repair companies such as JES since 2016). Here’s what we found:
