Sump Pump working?
I don’t know what is going on with my sump pump. It use to come on all the time, but for the past 4 years, it hasn’t come on. Every time I check the sump hole, it is dry as a bone. I’ve recently started paying attention to it because I do have a moisture problem in my basement. Not alot of water but enough to leave a wet spot under certain objects left on the floor. I am currently trying the plastic patch test for moisture. I have noticed moist soil around the foundation days after it has rained. And the worst of it is the millipede infestation that has happened the last 2 years. They seem to have singled my house out, (neither one of my neighbors) have them and they seem to be coming up into the basement between the walls and the slab. My exterminator suggested that I might have water under my foundation.
The bugs will not go away. I don’t want to seal the concrete because that isn’t going to fix the problem.
Does anybody have any similar experience with a bone dry sump pump and what that might mean. Am I on the right track thinking that I have a drainage problem?
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