Sewage and drain blockage can be extremely unsafe to your health.
Sewage and drain blockage can be extremely unsafe to your health.
If you are experiencing sewerage backing up into your bathroom toilets, bath tubs, and showers, it is time to call your plumber. Action should be taken immediately as this can effect your well being, sewage is full of germs, so this problem should be resolved immediately.
However you can start up the cleaning process even before the plumber arrives, put one cup of bleach in 5 Imperial gallons of water and use this solution to clean the area. Make sure that young kids and elder family members stay away from the sewage leakage, and put on long pants, gloves and boots. Sterilise your hands with soap and hot water after the cleanup. As another temporary measure, if you can limit the water going into your waste pipe you can prevent the volume of drainage backing into your home.
The cause of the problem might be a obstructed waste line or a obstruction between the toilet and the shower. Either way, your top priority should be to prevent your family from exposure to disease causing bacteria.
Symptoms from being exposed to drainage may include diarrhea, stomach pain, fever, chills, and vomiting. Such symptoms require instant medical help, contact a doctor if this happens.
You must also clean all items and surfaces that were reached by the sewerage, including children’s toys, by using use one cup of unscented household bleaching agent to every five gallons of water. polluted food items should be thrown away immediately, also throw those items that cannot be cleaned like mattresses, baby toys, stuffed animals etc.
If the sewerage leakage was around the shower, you might want to use a snake, part of a plumbers toolkit. A plumbing snake that is a quarter inch thick and twenty five feet long will be the best choice. It can pass through the line with ease to get at a blockage. Sometimes the toilet in a bathroom can be fine but the shower backs up. This happens because the toilet trap is installed about 6 inches above the floor and the shower drain is installed at the same level as the floor.
If you can’t remove this leakage on your own, you should ask for professional help from a drainage company. They will clean the sewerage completely and also identify the cause of the blockage, getting rid of it for you and giving you recommendations on how to avoid a similar situation. It is better to let the expert handle the plumbing repairs unless you know precisely what you are doing.