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Sewer Drain Backup
About sewer drain backup, reasons for the sewer backup and the need for an emergency drain repair company.
Sewer drain back up happens, and it does not fix itself. If you experience issues with backed-up sewer lines, you need to have them repaired sooner rather than later to avoid the wastewater line's entire blockage. A complete clogged sewer line would lead wastewater to overflow into your home's basement, causing damage to the interiors, posing a health hazard, and flood clean-up headaches.
Please, read our article on how to detect early signs of sewer line clogging.
Please, read our article on how to detect early signs of sewer line clogging.
What is exactly is a sewer drain backup?
The sewer system in your residence collects all the wastewaters from every plumbing fixture you have at home and brings it to the main municipal sewer line. All the used water from sinks, toilets, washing machine, shower, tub brings it to the lateral pipe, and often wastewater contains wastes and solids that tend to block the drain line over time. And when it happens, the clog in the drain restricts the free flow of the wastewaters. And cause a sewer backup.
What to do if the sewer backup occurred in the basement?
We have to underline that there are two types of sewer collecting systems - properties connected to municipal sewer lines and septic tanks.
With a septic tank sewer back up, the reason might be either drain line clog in the pipe or overfilled septic tank. That problem is more common in rural areas; however, we still occasionally see it with the people moving further away from Toronto.
When the sewer system is connected to municipal sewer lines and a sewer backup from the basement drain or overflowing toilet, shower drain, or sink, it means the problem lies somewhere in the drainpipe or municipal system overflowing and causing sewage backup. Either way, it threatens with severe contamination, possible sewage flooding, and flood clean-up mess.
How to identify if you require emergency drain repair service?
Often sewer backups occur during the late evening hours, weekends, or even holidays. The cost of drain emergency repair services might be overwhelming. Do you really need a professional plumber right now, or you could wait till the local plumbing company opens?
The urgency of the situation might depend on how long you should wait and how extreme the problem is. But the first advice that we give to people calling in with the sewer backup problem is to stop any laundry, tub, and shower use. If the situation is too bad even, we do recommend flushing the toilet, as all the wastes would back up into your basement floor or plumbing fixtures on the ground level. So, the second piece of advice is to use common sense and rational judgment.
The cost of the damages after sewage flooding might be more than the bill to the emergency drain repair company.
Toronto Drain Services specialize in drain cleaning and camera inspections; we highly recommend having drain lines get cleaned occasionally to prevent heavy blockage in the drain lines. Additionally, drain camera inspection helps to identify any problem on the way and to check the results of drain line snaking.
Please, contact us to book your drain cleaning appointment today at 416-881-6151
The sewer system in your residence collects all the wastewaters from every plumbing fixture you have at home and brings it to the main municipal sewer line. All the used water from sinks, toilets, washing machine, shower, tub brings it to the lateral pipe, and often wastewater contains wastes and solids that tend to block the drain line over time. And when it happens, the clog in the drain restricts the free flow of the wastewaters. And cause a sewer backup.
What to do if the sewer backup occurred in the basement?
We have to underline that there are two types of sewer collecting systems - properties connected to municipal sewer lines and septic tanks.
With a septic tank sewer back up, the reason might be either drain line clog in the pipe or overfilled septic tank. That problem is more common in rural areas; however, we still occasionally see it with the people moving further away from Toronto.
When the sewer system is connected to municipal sewer lines and a sewer backup from the basement drain or overflowing toilet, shower drain, or sink, it means the problem lies somewhere in the drainpipe or municipal system overflowing and causing sewage backup. Either way, it threatens with severe contamination, possible sewage flooding, and flood clean-up mess.
How to identify if you require emergency drain repair service?
Often sewer backups occur during the late evening hours, weekends, or even holidays. The cost of drain emergency repair services might be overwhelming. Do you really need a professional plumber right now, or you could wait till the local plumbing company opens?
The urgency of the situation might depend on how long you should wait and how extreme the problem is. But the first advice that we give to people calling in with the sewer backup problem is to stop any laundry, tub, and shower use. If the situation is too bad even, we do recommend flushing the toilet, as all the wastes would back up into your basement floor or plumbing fixtures on the ground level. So, the second piece of advice is to use common sense and rational judgment.
The cost of the damages after sewage flooding might be more than the bill to the emergency drain repair company.
Toronto Drain Services specialize in drain cleaning and camera inspections; we highly recommend having drain lines get cleaned occasionally to prevent heavy blockage in the drain lines. Additionally, drain camera inspection helps to identify any problem on the way and to check the results of drain line snaking.
Please, contact us to book your drain cleaning appointment today at 416-881-6151
19/01/2021