What to do when you get a sewerage leak
What to do when you get a sewerage leak
When toilet or shower drainage show drainage back flow, you must instantly ask for expert help. Decomposing matter in sewerage is extremely harmful to well being and has to be rapidly sanitised by clearing the blockage and disinfecting the area.
As you wait for the plumbers to reach your location, start sanitising the affected area with a mixture of bleaching agent and water with a ratio of one cup to five Imperial gallons respectively. While cleaning up wear long trousers, gloves, glasses and sensible footwear and make sure that your kids, aged people and household pets do not go near the problem area. Remember to exhaustively wash your hands with soap after you are done with the cleaning up. You can lessen the flow of water into your drain to reduce your sewage leakage problem while you are waiting for a repair.
There might be a blockage between the toilet and the shower, or the waste line may have been stopped. Either way, your clear priority should be to prevent your family from exposure to disease causing bacteria.
sewerage exposure can cause a number of symptoms like fever with chills, diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pain. If any of these symptoms occur to you or your household, particularly the young or aging, seek medical attention without delay.
Use a disinfectant (1 cup bleach in 5 gallons water)to sanitise any toilet items, toys, fixtures or other items that may have been polluted by the drainage. Items that cannot be cleansed (such as mattresses, stuffed animals, baby dolls, and wooden cutting boards) and food that may have been tainted by the sewage should be thrown away.
If the sewerage leakage was around the shower, you might want to use a snake, part of a plumbers toolkit. It would be best for you to get 25 feet long one quarter inch snake to tackle the problem if you are not calling in a drainpipes contractor. At this size it will be more easier for the tool to move all the way through the drainage and plumbing line. Sometimes a toilet in the bathroom is quite clear while the shower in the same area has gotten clogged. That is likely to happen because the shower drain is at flooring level, whereas the toilet trap is located about 6 inches higher.
The drainage backflow may be too severe for you to tackle, in which case you should immediately ask for professional help. Plumbers will be able to find the choke and clear the backup thoroughly as they have specialist tools and experience in this problem. It is smart to get a plumber in if you don’t have knowledge when is comes to sewage backups and other plumbing problems.