Get Ready for April Showers with Water Leak Detectors

We all know the rhyme that describes the spring weather, “April showers brings May flowers”…and floods. Almost every spring we can expect a flooded basement in my old house. Two years ago my family went on vacation in Florida. It was beautiful weather in Florida, but rainstorms covered the New England/ Maine region. When we returned, the water level reached above the 2nd step–  about 2 1/2 feet of water in the basement! Not only did we have water damage, but mold covered the walls. We had to throw almost everything we kept in the basement away. A week later we even saw fungus growing on the edge of the floors. EW!

My brother lost all of his Star Wars cards kept in two TV sized (90′s size TVs) boxes after a flood. My mom suffered an even greater loss: the boiler had to be replaced (it was old anyway, but still costly), her wedding dress was also kept in the basement in the house including wedding photos, and a lot of my and my sibling’s old school work. I bet a water leak detector would have been useful to alert us of a flood. 

Hindsight doesn’t help us now, but it does give us an idea of how to prepare for water leaks in the future. My mom didn’t have a lot of extra money to repair the basement, so we looked for a less expensive solution. We put sand bags next to the basement door and windows to help prevent water leaks. My mom then also installed a BitSight 2 with a water monitoring sensor linked to a sensor controlled relay to switch on a sump pump in case of a flood, and included a humidity sensor in the other port linked to a dehumidifier to discourage  mold and fungus growth. Considering the huge value in protection, it was an affordable water monitoring solution.

Don’t wait until you make the mistake of allowing your basement to flood: prevention is always the best action. Visit Ravica to learn more about how our water leak sensors can protect your assets from a flood, or even a water leak.

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