Deal with sewage issues rapidly to protect your health
Deal with sewage issues rapidly to protect your health
You might think of telephoning your plumber if sewerage is backing into your shower, toilets or bath tub. Action should be taken immediately as this can effect your health, drainage is full of germs, so this problem should be resolved immediately.
As an immediate measure whilst waiting for help, use one cup bleaching agent in every five Imperial gallons of water to clean up the area while you await the plumber. Make sure that young kids and elder family members stay away from the sewerage leakage, and put on long pants, gloves and boots. Cleanse your hands later on with warm clean water and soap. The less water you have going down the drain the better in terms of preventing more sewerage backing up whilst you wait for help.
It may be a clog between the shower and toilet, or the waste line may be stopped. Whatever the cause, protecting you and your family from harmful waste needs to be your first concern.
sewage exposure can cause a number of symptoms like fever with chills, diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pain. If any of these symptoms happen to you or your family, particularly the young or aging, seek medical attention without delay.
With a mixture of one cup of bleach to five Imperial gallons of water you should clean any items and surfaces that 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 sewerage should be thrown away.
You can use a plumbers snake if the drainage back up is in shower area. A one quarter inch snake that is 25 feet is you best bet. This size will be easier to guide through the pipe works. You may find that the shower trap gets backed up, while the toilet in the same bathroom does not. 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 flooring.
An expert tradesman, a plumber, must be contacted if you can’t fix the backflow yourself. A plumber will not only be able to clean up the mess that the leaked sewerage created for you but also locate where the blockage is. In fact it is always better to take professional help especially when you don’t know much about plumbing as you could harm your sewers if you start poking about inside them with home made tools.