Here the pump is not a backup device. It is the thing standing between you and a flooded basement.
Bonaire has the highest water table we work with. In a wet season it comes up close enough to the surface that a basement here is below the water line for weeks at a time, and the only thing keeping the floor dry is a pump that keeps running.
That changes how we size and specify. The pump has to handle sustained duty, the discharge has to be sized so it does not become the bottleneck, and backup power stops being optional.
We install a sealed basin at the low point with drain tile feeding it from below the slab, a pump sized for wet season load, battery backup as standard, a check valve, and a high water alarm on homes that are left empty for stretches. The discharge runs far enough out that the water does not return through the soil.
Bonaire homeowners get the same scope every time, priced in writing before a crew books the date.

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