Buy a locally made premium quality backup sump pump that you will never regret owning. If you don’t, you won’t save much money upfront, but you will lose a lot of value if you have a real flooding problem.
Installation is not too difficult, but if you want, I’m for hire to set yours up.
The Liberty Pump depicted above replaced the P.O.S. depicted below, which is a garbage item always on the shelf at Home Depot waiting for a desperate homeowner to buy right before/during/after a flooding incident from a power outage.
This device, even when properly installed will only work a little bit right after installing it.
It will not turn on in the event of a real emergency.
The flotation mechanism is unreasonably complex and flimsy. Setting it up is tricky, and trusting it to work right in an emergency will give you grey hairs.
Its valve is made of material that degrades quickly over time and cannot seal properly as intended which causes a condition where the water begins to flow, but only fast enough to not lift any water out of your basement. This means if it does come on, it will be adding water to your flooding problem instead of removing any.
Its fragile plastic housing is unreliable. cracking the jet connection at the bottom of the cheap green garden hose has a high probability.
The anti-backflow check valve depicted on top of the yellow plastic pump housing is chintzy and cannot be trusted to work properly to seal off pressure from the normal operation of the electrically driven main pump.
Its overall design is inefficient as its priority was to fit in a smaller box for shipping from China and not for efficiently protecting your basement.
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