Address drainage troubles rapidly to protect your health
Address drainage troubles rapidly to protect your health
If sewage is leaking out into your bathroom’s tub, toilet or shower, you should make a call to your plumber right away. Action should be taken immediately as this can effect your health, sewerage 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. Make sure that young kids and elder family members stay away from the sewerage leakage, and put on long pants, gloves and boots. Wash your hands afterwards with antibacterial soap and clean warm water. Now the question is that how can you prevent sewage overflow during the problem? Well you can do so by not allowing too much water to go into the drains pipes.
The cause of the problem might be a stopped waste line or a blockage between the toilet and the shower. Your first concern, without worrying about the cause, should be protecting your family from detrimental waste.
Symptoms from being exposed to sewage may include diarrhea, stomach pain, fever, chills, and vomiting. Such symptoms require instant medical help, contact a doctor if this happens.
Clean all items and surfaces that in come in contact with the sewage, including kids’s toys, using a standard cup mixture of unscented domestic bleach in every five Imperial 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 sewage 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 issue if you are not calling in a drainage contractor. At this size it will be more easier for the tool to move all the way through the drainage and plumbing line. It is quite common to find out that while the shower trap is backed up the toilet in the same bathroom is 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.
If you are unable to clear this backflow yourself, you must call in professional plumbers. They will be able to clean up the leaked sewerage thoroughly, as well as find out exactly where the clog is located. It is better to let the professional handle the plumbing repairs unless you know exactly what you are doing.