Our handyman picked up a few of these eight or so years ago and recommended we put them around our basement in our old house. Between then and now, these relatively inexpensive (~$12 a pop) boxes have saved us probably thousands of dollars in water damage over the years. <\/p>\n
As an example – this fine Saturday morning we were sitting around relaxing when my son asked “what’s that sound?” After determining it wasn’t the strange TV show my daughter was watching, I ran downstairs to find that the box I had placed near our sump pump was going off – from what turned out to be a burst pipe pouring water into my office. It was bad – but would have been much, much worse if this little box hadn’t gotten our attention. (The only downside was that I didn’t have these in more places. I’ll be buying a dozen more to place around our basement to catch leaks in unexpected places sooner.) <\/p>\n
Basically, the box has two metal contacts that, when they are connected via any water will cause a high pitched alarm to sound. You just plug in a battery, and set them wherever you think you could have a leak. (Even a very small amount will trigger it – there are suggestions about placing it on a paper towel to absorb\/trigger it faster on the Amazon page that seem sensible.) I haven’t used other varieties of this device – but these Watchdog boxes seem to last a long time (they say 5 years on one 9v batter, but I know ours have gone longer), and work very well. I’m very happy with them, and this seems like the kind of thing where I’ll stick with what I know works. I just ordered a bunch more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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