Yesterday our 80 gallon water heater (less than 5 years old) ruptured – flooding our basement. Situated right next to the water heater is our sump – but it didn't do 1 ounce of its job, because it is sealed for radon remediation.
Any suggestions on how I can achieve both water drainage into a sump plus radon remediation?
Best Answer
Put a surface pump at the lowest portion of the basement? That should keep the flood down to an inch or so; not perfect but better.
(You could build up some sort of basin around the mechanicals so they have their own "sump" sitting on top of the slab... but Murphy's Law says that the next failure is going to be somewhere else in the system.)