Sump Pump Repair in Michigan

Sump Pump Repair across Michigan: the 521 ZIP codes and 354 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.

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Discharge pipe running down beside basement steps to a channel drain

Free to homeowners in Michigan — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.

When it matters

Our sump pump repair coverage in Michigan runs to 521 ZIP codes in 354 cities. Large municipalities carry storm water in a built system, and a basement pump in one of them is usually fighting ground water and the capacity of that system at the same time — which is why failures arrive in clusters, on the same night.

Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.

We route sump pump repair calls in 521 ZIP codes across 354 Michigan cities, in 28 counties.

What this site is

Pit and Pump is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands, and a discharge connection is usually a permitted alteration — ask to see the permit. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Checking a credential in Michigan

Michigan licenses are issued by the Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes, Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

19 of the 28 Michigan counties we cover, a cross-section, largest to smallest

Allegan County 13 ZIP codes
Allegan, Dorr, Douglas, Fennville, Hamilton, Hopkins, Martin, Otsego, Plainwell, Pullman, Saugatuck, Shelbyville and 1 more
Barry County 4 ZIP codes
Delton, Freeport, Hastings, Middleville
Berrien County 23 ZIP codes
Benton Harbor, Baroda, Berrien Center, Berrien Springs, Bridgman, Buchanan, Coloma, Eau Claire, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo and 10 more
Clinton County 9 ZIP codes
Bath, DeWitt, Eagle, Elsie, Fowler, Maple Rapids, Ovid, Saint Johns, Westphalia
Eaton County 10 ZIP codes
Bellevue, Charlotte, Dimondale, Eaton Rapids, Grand Ledge, Mulliken, Olivet, Potterville, Sunfield, Vermontville
Genesee County 9 ZIP codes
Grand Blanc, Atlas, Burton, Fenton, Gaines, Goodrich, Linden, Swartz Creek
Kalamazoo County 5 ZIP codes
Portage, Scotts, Vicksburg
Kent County 28 ZIP codes
Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Ada, Alto, Belmont, Byron Center, Caledonia, Cedar Springs, Comstock Park, Gowen, Grandville, Kent City and 4 more
Lapeer County 12 ZIP codes
Almont, Attica, Clifford, Columbiaville, Dryden, Hadley, Imlay City, Lapeer, Metamora, North Branch, Otter Lake, Silverwood
Livingston County 12 ZIP codes
Howell, Brighton, Cohoctah, Fowlerville, Gregory, Hamburg, Hartland, Lakeland, Pinckney
Macomb County 41 ZIP codes
Warren, Sterling Heights, Utica, Clinton Township, Saint Clair Shores, Macomb, Mount Clemens, New Baltimore, New Haven, Washington, Armada, Center Line and 7 more
Monroe County 17 ZIP codes
Monroe, Carleton, Dundee, Erie, Ida, La Salle, Lambertville, Luna Pier, Maybee, Milan, Newport, Ottawa Lake and 4 more
Montcalm County 4 ZIP codes
Greenville, Howard City, Lakeview, Pierson
Newaygo County 5 ZIP codes
Brohman, Fremont, Grant, Newaygo, White Cloud
Oakland County 84 ZIP codes
Farmington, Southfield, Troy, Bloomfield Hills, Lake Orion, Novi, Pontiac, Rochester, West Bloomfield, Clarkston, Royal Oak, Waterford and 26 more
Ottawa County 13 ZIP codes
Holland, Allendale, Conklin, Coopersville, Grand Haven, Hudsonville, Jenison, Marne, Nunica, Spring Lake, West Olive, Zeeland
Van Buren County 11 ZIP codes
Bangor, Covert, Decatur, Grand Junction, Hartford, Lacota, Lawrence, Lawton, Mattawan, Paw Paw, South Haven
Washtenaw County 17 ZIP codes
Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Chelsea, Dexter, Manchester, Saline, Whitmore Lake, Whittaker, Willis
Wayne County 67 ZIP codes
Detroit, Dearborn, Livonia, Belleville, Canton, Dearborn Heights, Garden City, Grosse Pointe, Northville, Redford, Westland, Allen Park and 19 more

9 more Michigan counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in Michigan, the call reaches a contractor.

What that coverage looks like

Of the 521 ZIP codes we cover in Michigan, 84 are in Oakland County and 22 in Lansing. Storms do not respect that distribution: a single night's rain across 28 counties produces far more pump calls than any contractor can answer at once, which is the argument for testing yours in the dry.

How a sump pump repair job goes

A sump pump is tested by filling the pit, not by listening to it. The float has to lift, the pump has to start, the check valve has to hold and the discharge has to run clear of the house. Any of those four can fail silently and none of them announces itself until the night the pump is needed.

What the call asks about sump pump repair

Whether the pump runs at all when the float is lifted by hand.
Where the discharge goes, and whether it is frozen, blocked or running back into the pit.
Whether there is a battery backup, and when it was last tested.

Every Michigan city we route in

166 cities, ordered by the share of housing built before 1970. Basements, and the groundwater under them, are a function of when and how the housing was built. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.

Before you call

A pump is tested by pouring water into the pit, not by listening for it. The pages above say what to check and how often.

Basement sump pump with its PVC discharge pipework