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June 28, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:13):
All right, back at we go at home with Gary Salvin.
A busy, busy, busy weekend, that's for sure. Joining us
now is BJ Hentrup. He is with the Zalor Company,
the industry leader, the gold standard of pumps. BJ, welcome
again at home with Gary Selvin.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
How you doing Gary? It is great to be back
on with you. Have you been I've been great.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I've been great. Man. It's been a weird, weird weather year.
It has to affect your business, probably in a good way.
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh my gosh, Yes, with all the rains and storms
and power outages. Yes, definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Unbelievable, unbelievable. So let's talk about that scary thing in
the basement that's in the floor. Okay, okay, that's called
a sump pump, by the way, folks, And they don't
last forever.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
How long does so.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
They pump last last? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You know, you know, it all depends on the application, Gary,
and excuse me how much it's used, But we typically
say anywhere from seven to ten years as a good
lifespan of some pump.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay, all right, and you're you're right down Louisville, Kentucky.
So you have had a lot of rain because I'm
just right up the river from you, and gosh, even
last night we had probably an inch of rain in
an hour.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean it's been just one of those years.
So is there maintenance on some pumps? Is there some
tips you can give us right now if we're you know,
talking about and somebody goes, jeez, I know where that
thing is. Is there some maintenance need to be done?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say there's a maintenance. You just
want to make sure that your something pump is running
and when it's called the use that it's doing its
job job. So you know, every once in a while,
you know, just go down there and check on it,
maybe very carefully, just you know, make sure it's plugged in.
Number one, Maybe take a you know, a little bucket
of water and carefully put it down in there and

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let that thing run. If it comes on great. That's
it's that's what it's supposed to do and is doing
this job. So just doing some some minor things like that,
just to ensure that it's gonna work when it's called too,
is what you need to do.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Boy, And I'll tell you one of the things I preached. Gosh,
we've been talking about Zolor pumps for a long time,
but even before that is having a backup pump is
really critical, especially if you finished basement, uh, making inroads
on that process of education.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, so you are exactly right. You know, having the
some pumps great, you're some pump working is great. But
with all these storms and you know what, if you
have a power outage, that's when you want to that's
when you want to have a backup pump. We offer
a couple of different battery backup pumps, but the big
one for everybody to remember is called the aquaat Fit

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and it is able to be controlled and tested by
what we call our z Control app and its Wi
Fi enabled. So if your power goes out and your
primary pump isn't working, this battery backup pump will come
on and it will send you notification.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, that's nice to have that's a piece on line.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean, definitely a big time.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's a lot better than twenty thirty years ago when
it started raining really hard. I used to walk down
the basement and just kind of, you know, put my
ear to the wall. Is that thing working back there? Yeah?
Oh god, thank goodness? Or not hearing it? I don't
know how. I was just trained it. It's like, you know,
if it rained and I heard it rain really hard
at night, I could hear that pump run if I

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really listened.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
And you know, it's funny that you say that, Gary,
I do the same thing when we go down in
our basement if I'm downstair, you know, we're playing games
or whatnot with the kiddos, and I'm like, I don't
think i've heard the pump yet. I got to that.
Let me make sure it's over there.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So now it notifies you on a backup pump. Kind
of talk me through that, because I still think that's
probably the most important thing we can talk about, is
you know, I mean, something could break on that some
pump because it's been down there for ten years and
you forgot about it and it's getting old and or

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a power failure or you're out of town. What makes
up a backup some pump?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah? So, and you bring up a good point. You know,
I had mentioned earlier the power outage and the battery
power backup pump will come on. But you know what
if something else happens. What if you've got a fifteen
year old some pump that's down there and it's finally
decided to give out, you would want some backup on that, right,
And that's where also this battery backup pump will take

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into effect. It's not just for power outages. It's maybe
if your primary pump can't keep up because it's got
sudden inflow of water from all the rain we've been getting,
or maybe it's because you're some pump did go bad
after ten, fifteen, twenty years. This is going to be
there to back it up and use that battery, the
juice from the battery to run the backup pump.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now, you also have different kinds of batteries, correct, I
mean we're all about maintenance free living. Can you get
a maintenance free battery?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
We do offer a maintenance free battery. That's the number
one that we you know, try to push to customers.
You know, with both batteries that we offer. We do
offer a maintenance free and then we do have one
that you would have to check once a month, but
the maintenance free is the way to go. You know,
you haven't installed by your installed you know, your contractor
your plumber, you know whomever, and it's good for three years.

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We recommend replacing the battery every three years. But with
the maintenance free, it's exactly what it says. You don't
have to do anything with it.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, you just scared me. I know my batteries more
than three years old.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Like, you better get down there. Gary.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I know it is, I know it is, but I
also know it's working because you got different light assemblies
on pumps.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, you're exactly right. So, especially with our five oh
eight fit, when you're looking at the charger, it'll tell
you what's going on with it. You know you have
some red lights, green lights, yellow lights, and it'll tell
you what's going on with your system. Is your battery good?
Is your AC power good? Is the unit charging? So
it's got all these neat features that are built into

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our controller for the backup pump that'll tell tell you
guys what to do.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
And not all people are comfortable with doing a project
like that. But you it's Zolor pumps. You're so respected
in the plumbing field. I mean, if you mentioned Zalor
pumps to I'd have to say ninety nine percent of

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the plumbers, they'll know exactly what you're talking about. You
agree with that statement, Oh.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Gary, yes, Uh, you know we've Zalor's been around since
nineteen thirty nine doing some pump sewage pumps, grinder pumps,
dewatering pumps, all types of pumps, controls and accessories. You know,
if you go to any plumber contractor and say the
Xelor name, I would almost bet they would know who
we are and what our product is.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
People always want to know about Well, if it floods,
insurance takes care of that, but not always.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, you're right, not always. You know, obviously you know
your your listeners would need to check with their you know,
homeowners insurance or policies and whatnot when it comes to
you know, a flooded basement. But you know what I
would say is, you know, check out what we call
the dry Basement Guarantee. It's not available in all states,
so you know, you know, you guys would check out

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check out our website, zalarpumps dot com. Go to the
drive Basement Guarantee section of that and what very quickly,
what the drive Basement Guarantee is is when you have
a certified installer of these drive Basement Guarantee products, which
is three specific products. It's our model sixty three Triple

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O one is the part number. It's our ten dash
fourteen to fifty maintenance free battery, and it's our five
oh eight fit which is the backup pump that has
the Wi Fi enabled system. So if the homeowner has
these three items installed by a certified installer, they can
go on our website, the Drive Basement Guarantee website, and

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subscribe monthly to get that coverage so that if something
does happen, then they can deal directly with us and say, hey, listen,
this something happened with your battery backup or something happened
with the battery. If that does happen, we offer that
drive Basement Guarantee to back up our product. It's pretty

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much you know us, you know, putting our putting our
money where I'm out this and say, listen, we trust
and believe in our products so much that we're going
to offer this. Wow.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
So, so where does the homeowner find a certified installer.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, so you go to our website. You can go
to drive Basement Guarantee dot com, or you can go
to our main site Dollar Pumps dot Com. Type in
drive Basement Guarantee and it'll let it let the customers
know what states it's available in.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Okay, Well, that's that's a great that's a great, great benefit.
I mean it really is.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, we're we're excited about this offering again,
just to show everybody, you know, we are super proud
of our product, the quality of our product, and we're
going to back it up.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Mm. Well, I know one of the achilles heels of
pumps is the switch in a lot of cases. And
you guys got a great reputation on the switch being
down in your plant watching them being made one year.
The amount of testing that goes on as the pumps
are made, it's incredible. And you do a great job

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of building them and then educating plumbers. You created kind
of a university down there where you train plumbers out
in the field.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, quality is a big
thing for us. Gary, Like you said, going through our
plant all testing and quality that we have there in Louisville, Kentucky.
But yeah, you're right. You know we have on site
like well you you said Zala University, we have our
Center for Excellence where we bring in plumbers and you know,
train them up on our products, right. You know, that's

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that's a big thing is we want to make sure
that we're training not only the plumbers that are out
there now, but we want to train these new people,
the new plumbers and contractors that are coming up. So yeah,
we're pretty proud of our facility.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Have I feel the tide's coming too where there's gonna
be a lot of new people entering the trades and
the plumbing business. So your foresight, uh coming up with
that training center was was fantastic. And I'm sure you're
busy down there all the time, uh, teaching very.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Oh yeah, and we're we're big. We're big on teaching
and educating. You know, everyone and our team there at
the Center for Excellence, Dave, you know, Rob Chloe, everybody
that's that's there in uh the Center for Excellence. I
mean we we have trainings, oh gosh, Gary, probably every
week there's somebody in there doing a training.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, I have to get down there again. Maybe this
fall we'll make another stop doing and down to Louisville
and take a look at things. I'm always impressed whenever
i'm there. Well, BJ, thank you very much again. It's
Zalorpumps dot com, UH drive base and Guaranteed dot com.
And I appreciate your time on this weekend.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
As always, it's great to talk with you. Gary. Thank
you so much.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right, there
you go. It is amazing the amount of work that
they do in education and also the building of these pumps.
And it's other things too, I mean the grinder pumps,
the up flush toilet pumps. I mean, they've got a
lot of products. But it's a it's a family owned

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business for generations. They do quite the quite the job.
All right, we'll continue with your calls. We got Hank,
John and Joan as we go through the weekend. You're
at home with Gary Sullivan. Help for your home is
just a click away at Garysullivan online dot com. This
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