Sump Pump Repair in Tennessee
Sump Pump Repair across Tennessee: the 291 ZIP codes and 202 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.
Free to homeowners in Tennessee — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.
When it matters
Our sump pump repair coverage in Tennessee runs to 291 ZIP codes in 202 cities. A state with both built storm systems and open ground produces two different kinds of pump failure, and which one a house is exposed to is decided by what is under the basement floor rather than by the weather.
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 291 ZIP codes across 202 Tennessee cities, in 52 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 Tennessee
Tennessee licenses are issued by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
19 of the 52 Tennessee counties we cover, a cross-section, largest to smallest
- Anderson County 8 ZIP codes
Clinton, Oak Ridge, Andersonville, Briceville, Norris, Rocky Top - Bedford County 4 ZIP codes
Bell Buckle, Shelbyville, Unionville, Wartrace - Campbell County 3 ZIP codes
Caryville, Jacksboro, La Follette - Cannon County 1 ZIP code
Woodbury - Cocke County 2 ZIP codes
Newport - Cumberland County 7 ZIP codes
Crossville, Crab Orchard, Pleasant Hill - DeKalb County 1 ZIP code
Alexandria - Fentress County 3 ZIP codes
Clarkrange, Grimsley, Wilder - Greene County 1 ZIP code
Chuckey - Hamblen County 5 ZIP codes
Morristown, Talbott - Knox County 35 ZIP codes
Knoxville, Corryton, Farragut, Heiskell, Mascot, Powell - Loudon County 5 ZIP codes
Lenoir City, Greenback, Loudon, Philadelphia - Montgomery County 7 ZIP codes
Clarksville, Cunningham, Palmyra, Southside, Woodlawn - Rhea County 4 ZIP codes
Dayton, Evensville, Grandview, Spring City - Rutherford County 12 ZIP codes
Murfreesboro, Christiana, Eagleville, La Vergne, Lascassas, Milton, Readyville, Rockvale, Smyrna - Smith County 8 ZIP codes
Brush Creek, Carthage, Chestnut Mound, Elmwood, Gordonsville, Hickman, Lancaster, Riddleton - Sumner County 2 ZIP codes
Bethpage, Castalian Springs - Washington County 6 ZIP codes
Johnson City, Fall Branch, Jonesborough - White County 3 ZIP codes
Quebeck, Sparta, Walling
33 more Tennessee counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in Tennessee, the call reaches a contractor.
What that coverage looks like
Of the 291 ZIP codes we cover in Tennessee, 35 are in Knox County and 30 in Knoxville. Storms do not respect that distribution: a single night's rain across 52 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 Tennessee city we route in
46 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.
- Oak Ridge 59%
- Alcoa 49%
- Nashville 48%
- Chattanooga 45%
- Rockwood 42%
- Kingsport 42%
- Harriman 40%
- Athens 37%
- Livingston 37%
- Carthage 35%
- Woodbury 34%
- La Follette 33%
- Signal Mountain 32%
- Jefferson City 32%
- Morristown 32%
- Knoxville 32%
- Blountville 31%
- Newport 30%
- Johnson City 30%
- Sparta 29%
- Old Hickory 29%
- Mountain City 29%
- Lenoir City 28%
- Shelbyville 28%
- Bluff City 27%
- Clinton 27%
- Maryville 27%
- Chuckey 26%
- Cleveland 26%
- Jasper 25%
- Strawberry Plains 25%
- Oliver Springs 25%
- Hixson 25%
- Pikeville 25%
- Joelton 25%
- Talbott 25%
- Goodlettsville 24%
- Ashland City 24%
- Springfield 24%
- Hartsville 23%
- Smithville 23%
- Kingston 22%
- New Market 21%
- Dunlap 21%
- Jonesborough 21%
- Whitwell 20%
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.
