What to do when you have a sewage outflow
What to do when you have a sewage outflow
If drainage is leaking out into your bathroom’s tub, toilet or shower, you should make a call to your plumber straightaway. Action should be taken immediately as this can effect your well being, sewage is full of germs, so this problem should be resolved immediately.
While you are waiting for the plumbers van to arrive, begin to clean up the area yourself with a solution of one cup of bleaching agent to every five gallons of water. Keep children, aged relatives, and pets away from the area, and wear long pants, eye wear, gloves and boots. Remember to exhaustively wash your hands with soap after you are done with the cleaning up. The less water you have going down the drain the better in terms of preventing more sewage backing up whilst you wait for help.
There might be a blockage between the toilet and the shower, or the waste line may have been obstructed. Your first concern, without worrying about the cause, should be protecting your family from harmful waste.
Vomiting, fever, chills, stomach pain, diarrhoea are some of the symptoms of exposure to sewage. Seek medical attention right away if you experience any of these symptoms.
drainage polluted surfaces including children’s toys should be cleaned with a solution made by adding one cup of bleaching agent in 5 Imperial gallons of water. Throw away items that cannot be washed and cleaned (such as mattresses, stuffed animals, baby toys, and wood cutting boards) and food that may have come in contact with drainage water.
If the sewerage back flow is in the shower area, try using a snake. It would be best for you to get 25 feet long one quarter inch snake to tackle the issue if you are not calling in a drains pipes contractor. You can move a quarter inch snake easily inside the drains line. Sometimes in a bathroom the shower trap gets choked but at the same time the toilet remains unaffected. The reason is that the typical shower drain is installed level with the floor whereas the toilet trap is typically six inches above the floor level.
The sewerage backup may be too severe for you to tackle, in which case you should immediately ask for professional help. A plumber will not only be able to clean up the mess that the leaked sewage created for you but also locate where the blockage is. Unless you know what you are doing when you try to do your own plumbing remedies, it is generally wise to let the experts handle it to begin with.