When heavy seasonal rains start pooling around your house, the last thing you want is to be humming Johnny Cash’s “Five Feet High and Rising” as water creeps up in your basement. But that may be the ...

What is a sump pump? It’s a device with one goal in life: to keep your basement or crawl space from flooding, coming to your rescue when your home is in hot water—or any water, in fact. “Sump pumps ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

The problem of moving standing water from one place to another has preoccupied engineers for thousands of years. Historians report that even Archimedes worked on the problem. Fortunately for modern ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

The arrival of spring is marked by warmer weather, longer days, and the anticipation of blooming plants and flowering trees. But spring is also the season of rapid snowmelt, swollen rivers, and ...

Compare plans tailored to your home & budget. If you live in an area that floods, you know how useful a sump pump can be. It can prevent foundation problems, mold and wall warping. When your sump pump ...