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 ...

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 ...

So, I understand from reading through various forum posts that backwater valves (or check valves) are problematic. I get it: you keep outside sewage out, but you end up keeping your own in, for the ...

—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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...