Planning tool

Rowhome Basement Backup Check for Upper Darby, PA

Four questions rate how exposed an older basement is to the backups the township sees most: floor drains, aging laterals, tree roots and storm water at the foundation.

Does the basement have a floor drain?

What do you know about the sewer lateral?

Big trees near the front walk or the lateral?

Where do the downspouts empty?

Basement backup risk

Elevated

Several common rowhome risk factors line up.

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Estimate only, based on typical local losses. The restoration contractor who responds sets the real scope after the walkthrough and the moisture map.

How this tool works

This check adds up the four things behind most basement backups in older rowhomes and twins: a floor drain with no backwater valve, an old clay or cast-iron sewer lateral that has never been inspected, tree roots that find the joints in that lateral, and downspouts that dump storm water into the ground or a pipe right at the house. Each answer adds points, and the total sets a risk tier.

It is a planning aid, not an inspection. If water or sewage is already inside, the sewage and floor drain backup, basement flooding and storm and creek flood services cover the cleanup.

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