Sewage Damage Odor Repair

odor-300x236It’s a scary thought that anytime, when you least expect it, sewage damage can occur in your home. If a sewer pipe gets busted and it floods your basement you need to take immediate action to remedy it since it is not ordinary flood water you’ll be dealing with. Sewage water has a lot of pollutants that not only does damage to the structure of your home, it is also a potential health hazard to your family, most especially if someone in your family has a compromised or weak immune system.

If you’re lucky enough for the sewage spill to be contained in an area where the floors and walls are tiled, like the bathroom for example, then sewage damage repair will be a fairly simple task. But if the spill is located in another part of your home then you need to remove all of the furniture and appliances that were soaked in the water. You should also dispose of any upholstered furniture that has come in contact with the raw sewage because no amount of cleaning will be able to completely remove all of the contaminants and odor.

Proper cleanup is necessary

But just removing and disposing of the sewage and saturated items isn’t enough to clean up your home. You also need to disinfect your home to eliminate the bacteria and germs that came in with the raw sewage. This is a necessary step in order to get rid of all the disease causing organisms, and of course the bad odor that has unfortunately made their way in your home. Cleaning them all up by yourself is an exercise in futility, what you need to do right now is to rely on professional sewage damage repair companies to do all of the dirty work for you.

The best thing that you can do in situations of sewage water damage is to call a professional water damage restoration company to help you. It does not matter if it’s a weekend or if it’s in the dead of the night, most of these companies operate around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These companies are really used to dealing with these kinds of emergencies.

Know the health risks

lThere are a lot of organisms that thrive in raw sewage that you really do not want to get into your home, and especially away from your family. There are lots of diseases and other ailments that you can get from exposure to raw sewage, a few examples are hepatitis, bacterial infection, and salmonella to name a few. Professional companies are trained in ways on how to properly handle the contaminated water and get it all out of your home.

Your family’s health and the structural safety of your home should be your main concerns when it comes to cleaning up sewage damage. You may think that you’ll be saving a lot of money if you try and do the sewage damage repair yourself, but in truth if you’re not completely sure of what you’re doing, then you might as well throw your money out with the dirty water.

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