The clogging up of sewerage is unhygienic and can be harmful.
The clogging up of sewerage is unhygienic and can be harmful.
When toilet or shower drainpipes show sewerage backflow, you must immediately ask for expert help. Action should be taken immediately as this can effect your health, 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 gallons of water and use this solution to clean the area. While cleaning up wear long trousers, gloves, glasses and sensible footwear and make sure that your children, ageing 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. As another temporary measure, if you can limit the water going into your waste pipe you can prevent the volume of sewerage backing into your home.
The main sewage drainpipe may have plugged up, or it may just be the pipework joining the toilet and shower that is plugged. Regardless of the reason, providing protection to your household and yourself from hazardous waste should come to the forefront.
Diarrhea, high temperatures, stomach pains, chills and vomiting are some of the common symptoms of being exposed to raw sewerage. If any of these symptoms happen to you or your household, particularly the small or aging, seek medical attention without delay.
You must also clean all items and surfaces that were touched by the drainage, including kids’s toys, by using use one cup of unscented household bleaching agent to every five Imperial gallons of water. You will have to throw away any items that can’t be cleaned properly such as mattresses and of course any food that may have been contaminated.
A drainage contractors sewer snake is the best piece of equipment for sewerage back flow in a shower area. For such waste pipes and pipe joints in close proximity, a quarter-inch snake of 25 feet length will work fine. This size will be easier to guide through the pipe works. 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 floor.
If you are unable to clear this backup yourself, you must call in professional plumbers. Not only would they find exactly where the block is but they would also clean up the leaked sewage thoroughly for you saving a lot of effort and grief. Be absolutely sure that you know what you are doing when you are attempting to fix your own plumbing, otherwise it’s always best to contact the professionals to do the job.