The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) has launched a backwater valve installation website to provide basic information about sewage backflow prevention devices to assist homeowners in ...

—Installation of a sump pump, including drain tile, discharge rigid piping and electrical outlet. —Removal of a prohibited discharged, including rain gutter downspouts, exterior area drains, ...

Today’s homeowners are extending their living space by utilizing the basement area. Whether you use the lower level of your home as a game room, office, exercise area or workshop, you’ll want to be ...

Q. How can I prevent municipal wastewater from backing up into my house’s plumbing? On two occasions, it backed up and spilled out of the washing machine’s standpipe. A. My first thought for ...

Guidance on how language within building and plumbing codes should be interpreted with respect to backwater valves should support mandatory installation in all or most new Canadian homes, suggests a ...

City of Windsor officials are calling on homeowners to install backwater valves under the subsidy program. We did this back in June and it proved disastrous. A rectangular cut was made in our basement ...

Since Des Moines relaunched an incentive program a year ago, fewer than 200 property owners have sought reimbursement for a device that can prevent sewage from backing into homes. Program advocates ...

Des Moines will reimburse homeowners who install backflow devices that prevent sewage from seeping into homes through basement floor drains during heavy rains — a problem many residents faced during ...

Ed Buchan, with the City of Raleigh Department of Public Utilities, explains why each home needs a backwater valve to prevent sewage from backing up into the house. Ed Buchan, with the City of Raleigh ...

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