How do I know if my sump pump is working?

Aaron goes over how to check your sump pump to see if it is working (or not working) properly. Learn more about our sump pumps: https://www.gothrasher.com/about/news...

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So people ask, how do you know if your sump pumps working? Well, it's sometimes hard to tell if your sump pump is working. The most common way people know that their sump pump is working is either one they hear the pump making noise, which obviously you don't want if your living rooms are right next to that sump pump. But sometimes you can hear it making noise if you don't have a high quality pump. Another way you can know that your sump pump is working is if you're paying attention to where it discharges the water on the outside and if you see water puddling up on the outside.

So those are the two primary ways that people usually notice their sump pumps working. Another thing you could do is if you have visibility, a clear lid on your sump pump to be able to look down in there and see it actively filling up with water and the sump pump working and pumping the water out. So the way people usually notice that their sump pump is not working is when their basement floods. And unfortunately, that's too late. At that point, the damage is done.

So what we recommend at Thrasher is actually installing what we call our Triple Safe sump pump system. And what that does is it provides two primary pumps that are going to plug into the wall and are going to be able to operate either during high water volume times and you just got a lot of water coming in. You need to be able to pump it all out. Or if one of those two pumps happen to fail, you have a backup pump that's going to be able to take over and make sure you're still getting the water out. The third pump that's in that system is a battery backup pump.

And that pump is going to operate even when the power is out. And the most likely time for your power to be out is during a thunderstorm, which is also the time you most likely need the sump pump to be working. So the battery backup pump and two primary pumps inside the Triple Safe system really provide the comfort and peace of mind that your sump pump system is working the way that you want it to.